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Which Beer Will You Choose?
Love these Improv Everywhere guys:
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Our Pluto
The New Horizons space probe is about to reach Pluto to take high resolution photos of the surface, and there’s a public vote page to select a list of names for the features on its surface. Fantastic effort and should be interesting, but I’d just point out the time at which New Horizons was launched, Pluto was still […]
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The Great SIM Heist
In 2010, GCHQ and the NSA hacked a company responsible for producing a huge number of mobile SIMs and stole all the security keys: With these stolen encryption keys, intelligence agencies can monitor mobile communications without seeking or receiving approval from telecom companies and foreign governments. Possessing the keys also sidesteps the need to get a […]
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A.I. is coming
Google (where else) develops computer program capable of learning tasks independently, is training it on computer games from the 80s (so far). I’m… really not sure that’s a great idea to start A.I. learning the most efficient methods to get high scores on games that will often involve killing… (nobody say Skynet!)
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Space Probes
How far are the space probes we’ve sent out? Here’s a gorgeous quick reference: Spaceprob.es
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Birds In Flight
Utterly gorgeous photos of birds captured perfectly in flight
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How Jackie Chan Does Action Comedy
Every Frame a Painting examines Jackie Chan’s Action Comedy direction and why it’s so successful: See also How Edgar Wright Does Visual Comedy – almost a study in Simon Pegg, but also why there needs to be way more Wright films.
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Since Records Began
2014 is the hottest average temperature on Earth since records began. It’s only half a degree (Celsius) up on the 20th Century average, but that’s still half a degree in a human lifetime. This is no longer a geological-scale process of warming. To bring this back home quite succinctly, this animation demonstrates the process of […]
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It’s 2015. You’re old.
It’s 2015, you’re getting old now: The 21st century seems like it just started, but we’re already half way to 2030. Remember 1995? The way we thought of the 60s then is how someone who today is the age you were then thinks of the 80s. The way you thought of the 70s then is […]
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Extrapolated Art
Extrapolated Art: taking artworks and using algorithms to extend without human input. Some of these work far better than others, but all offer something interesting in the perspective of the art.