Saturday, June 2, 2012

Lift - YouTube

Romeo Phillion launches $14-million lawsuit for wrongful conviction

Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf

Radioactive Topological Insulators - IEEE Spectrum

BBC News - Massive rise in Asian eye damage

BBC News - 3D printers could create customised drugs on demand

Plant DNA vs. Counterfeit Chips - IEEE Spectrum

Eccentric-hub scooter / bike (no pedals)

A historic event: American black widow spiders bring victory in World War I and II

HOWTO decorate like a Mafia boss - Boing Boing

Terrifying thrill-ride - Boing Boing

Air is mightier than eight Frenchmen - Boing Boing

Introducing Cross-laminated Timber (CLT) to North America - YouTube

From Graduate School to Welfare - Graduate Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Reggie Watts: F_ck Sh_t Stack - YouTube

msnbc video: Bee deaths linked to pesticides

NASA scientist James Hanson says civilization will be at risk if Canada exploits oil sands | Canada 
Politics - Yahoo! News Canada

Politics - The Globe and Mail

120 Giants Found Living With 86-Year-Old Man : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

Siemens Develops Modular Power Storage for Renewable Energy : TreeHugger

Antimatter Propulsion Engine Redesigned Using CERN's Particle Physics Simulation Toolkit - Technology Review

Graduating Into Debt - Video Library - The New York Times

‘Ring’ Heads - Video Library - The New York Times

New Cement-Making Method Could Slash Carbon Emissions - Technology Review

In Sperm Banks, a Roll of the Genetic Dice - NYTimes.com

Contracts Help Private Sector Edge Deeper Into Space - NYTimes.com

Alt Text: 4 Scams That Fool the Skeptics | Underwire | Wired.com

Researchers generate electricity from viruses

High-tech ghost-town being built in the middle of the NM desert - Boing Boing

World's Scariest Drug - Colombian Devil's Breath Documentairenet.nl

Ford + TechShop: Getting Employees to Tinker | Wired Design | Wired.com

BBC News - Mexico violence: Monterrey police find 49 bodies

Great Pacific Garbage Patch 'has increased 100-fold since the 1970s' - Telegraph

Fracking backed by Environment Agency head - Telegraph

‘Civilization - The West and the Rest,’ on PBS - NYTimes.com

Zoho International Artforms

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BBC News - Crime and punishment, Norwegian style

Russen zorgen weer voor knikkende knieƫn | Flabber
Homemade motorcycle improvised out of a Citroen 2CV in the middle of the desert - Boing Boing

How past land use affects the current landscape - Boing Boing

Afterlife: Making Rotten Food Beautiful | Wired Science | Wired.com

Prepared for Zombies? Then British Columbia Thinks You're Ready for Anything | GeekDad | Wired.com

Bees Prefer Working Class Gardens Over Affluent Gardens : TreeHugger

Kodak had weapons-grade uranium - Boing Boing

Slime computes freeways systems - Boing Boing

Thousands of college students in Ontario need help with grade school math | Daily Brew - Yahoo! News Canada

Vortex tube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

American Scientists Fear Losing Edge in Physics - NYTimes.com

VHS Loyalists - Video Library - The New York Times

Ultra-Efficient Solar - Technology Review

Sound increases the efficiency of boiling

'The Demise of Guys': How video games and porn are ruining a generation - CNN.com

Spread of Chagas Is Called ‘The New AIDS of the Americas’ - NYTimes.com

SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison) - Boing Boing

Pictures: World War II "Time Capsule" Fighter Found in Sahara

Ted Kaczynski's Harvard alumni directory listing - Boing Boing

Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors - Boing 
Boing

Life before plastic - Boing Boing

Award-Winning Lamp Eliminates Need for Direct Sunlight : TreeHugger

How to Spot Income Inequality from Space: Look for the Trees : TreeHugger

A SIM Card for Domineering Parents - Technology Review

The Great Bandwidth Brawl - Technology Review

Keeping Drones From Crashing - IEEE - The Institute

Apples that won't go brown coming soon? - Science - Canoe.ca

Last Call at the Oasis: The global water crisis has arrived - The Globe and Mail

Dim Prospects for Financial Crisis Prosecutions - NYTimes.com

The Quest for a Universal Memory - IEEE Spectrum

How to make a model hydraulic ram - YouTube

Harper is right: Foreign radicals are after the oil sands - The Globe and Mail

Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks - Bloomberg

Health - Brian Fung - It's Not Just You: 'Old Person Smell' Is Real - The Atlantic

German teen solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton | Fox News

Toronto News: Rookie cop takes heat for arresting off-duty officer - thestar.com

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (Mariachi Live Performance) - YouTube

IEEE Technology Time Machine 2012: Siemens the Car Maker - IEEE Spectrum

My Year Trying to Live Cash Free - IEEE Spectrum

BBC News - Why does the UK love the monarchy?

Russians Working Out On A Bridge! 500 meters tower 2012 - YouTube

Visualizing sound without a computer - Hack a Day