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23 of the Biggest Machines Ever Moved On Wheels
The fact that humans can build big, complicated machines is commonplace. But the fact that we can build these massive machines and then move them, sometimes across the planet? That’s not so common. While most machines can be assembled and disassembled in situ, every so often there’s a huge part of a mechanism—or sometimes the … Continued
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The Woman Who Survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic Disasters
Today I Found Out about Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable,” the woman who survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and the Britannic, and was also aboard the third of the trio of Olympic class vessels, the Olympic, when it had a major accident. Violet Jessop enjoyed incredible “luck” from a young age. Born … Continued
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This Leech Can Survive For 24 Hours in Liquid Nitrogen
You’re looking at Ozobranchus jantseanus, a little leech found in East Asia. It doesn’t look much, but it has a very special skill indeed: it can survive for up to 24 hours immersed in liquid nitrogen. In case you were wondering, that’s -321°F, or -196°C, which is way, way below the temperature most creatures can … Continued
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Watch These Cute Soap Bubble Vortices Help Us Understand Deadly Storms
These swirling vortices look an awful lot like the satellite weather images we see every day, but in fact they’re the beautifully intricate surface of a soap bubble—which could help researchers understand the storms that threaten millions of lives every year. We already know that researchers from the University of Bordeaux, France, have been heating … Continued
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Mark One: The World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer
Carbon fiber is a wonderful material, strong and lightweight. But building with it is both intimidatingly complex and prohibitively expensive—which is why Mark Forged has developed this new 3D printer which can build objects layer-by-layer using the stuff. Unveiled at SolidWorks World 2014 in San Diego, the Mark One can print in carbon fiber, fiberglass, … Continued
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The NSA Has Only Just Gotten a Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer
The NSA has named its first-ever primary adviser to its director for civil liberties and privacy protection—perhaps a little later than you may have hoped for. After advertising for the position last year—in which the NSA noted that the “new position is focused on the future”—it’s become known that Rebecca “Becky” Richards will leave the … Continued
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Olympus OM-D E-M10: The Sub-$1000 Compact Camera We’ve Been Waiting For
Olympus first introduced the OM-D E-M5 a few years ago to photographers that were eager for a compact interchangeable-lens camera that felt as powerful as they knew these cameras could be. Two years later we’re getting a great OM-D at a price we can actually afford. https://gizmodo.com/olympus-om-d-e-m5-the-first-micro-four-thirds-camera-a-5883224 Meet the Olympus OM-D E-M10. It’s got the … Continued
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OLYMPUS SP-100 Is a 50X Superzoom Camera With a Red Dot Sight Like a Gun
If point-and-shoot cameras have a future it’s all about zoom, and Olympus just innovated the super long super zooms with a badly needed addition we didn’t even know they needed: A red dot zoom like a sniper rifle. That sounds horrible and murderous, but it’s really just good for killing photos. Here’s the problem: Really … Continued
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: To Hear Your Banjo Play
Pete Seeger—folk icon, hippie messiah, political and environmental activist, all around national treasure—died late last night at the age of 94. In honor of his innumerable contributions to American culture, here he is in 1946, narrating lan Lomax’s documentary on the evolution of folk music. Seeger started as a fixture on American radios throughout the … Continued
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Watching music videos without the music is pretty damn funny
This is genius. Mario Wienerroither replaces the music from popular music videos with imagined sound effects and noises of what’s actually happening in the music video. If you see someone jumping around, you’ll hear jumping around and not the song. The result? An awkwardly funny mashup of artists dancing by themselves to no tunes, making … Continued
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Hike 2600 miles through the United States in six minutes
From Mexico and all the way up to Canada with something called the United States of America in between. One man, Tyler Fox, decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail and make his way completely through the US. That would be a 2,600 mile hike through California, Oregon and Washington. Here’s what he saw. It … Continued
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Real life returning batarang boomerang would make Batman jealous
It’s pretty hard to make Batman jealous. The dude has enough money for an entire world, gadgets to play with everyday, a secret cave to hang out in, dashing good looks and beautiful companions to take out to dinner. But here’s one thing you can have that’s better than Batman’s: a fully returning Batarang in … Continued
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Insects as Role Models
Insectoid activity is a common source of raw material and inspiration for electronic music, notably in the form of cicada whirring. For Dave Keifer, who goes by Cagey House, it’s a particularly feral, anxious kind of pest motion that provides a role model. His “January Insects” sounds like a nature film in time-lapse, fast-forward mode, … Continued
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Every place I love in San Francisco in one gorgeous timelapse
San Francisco is fantastic. I’m admittedly biased because I live here, but behind all the headlines of late—skyrocketing housing prices, burgeoning class war, tech bubble 2.0—it’s still chock full of weird, wonderful, and just plain beautiful stuff. Marc Donahue from PermaGrin Films turned his sights on the city for “I Left My Heart,” an impressive … Continued
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It’s been a long day, so here’s a cute baby otter to heal your ailments
This ridiculously cute little thing was spotted near the Monterey Bay Aquarium last week, just hanging out on its mama’s belly, holding hands, swimming around, snoozing, lovin’ life. We should all be so lucky. Incredibly, these pics are not the most adorable thing I’ve seen this week; that honor goes to the baby wombat and … Continued
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The scary plastic surgery transformation of a beautiful Korean reporter
Except in extreme cases, I don’t think plastic surgery is a good idea for any human being. But when someone is attractive to begin with—like this South Korean reporter—I just can’t comprehend the reasons. Look at the before and after shots. Before After She’s not an isolated case. There are more examples of this kind … Continued
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To Make Glass Stronger, Etch It With Microscopic Cracks
To anyone who has ever dropped a wine glass or broken a window, you might have a thing or two to learn from mollusks. A new technique inspired by natural materials such as mollusk shells or tooth enamel can make glass 200 times stronger. Weirdly enough, it works by weakening the glass with microscopic cracks. … Continued
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