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Posted: November 28, 2012 Filed under: Things we like Leave a comment »Curiosity: Person of the Year?
With our radio telescopes tracking her safely to her landing on Mars, naturally we love the latest Mars rover. But what do you think? Should Curiosity be named TIME’s Person of the Year? Or would you rather see the crown go to the Higgs boson? Have your say on their online poll
COSMOS holiday gift guide
While we’re talking particle physics, let the Higgs-teria continue… on your wrist. If you’re finding it hard to buy for the physicist or sci-fi nerd in your life, check out the COSMOS holiday gift guide.
A timeless Higgs boson watch.
Thanksgiving turducken-ducken
While Thanksgiving isn’t huge in Australia, we welcome a new bird-stuffing paradigm. Vi Hart‘s mathematically inspired turduckenen-duckenen mixes the mathematical and the delicious.
The best science books of 2012
To kick off the “best-of” season, Brain Pickings put together a list of the best science books of 2012. They’re an intersection of science, art, design and beautiful graphs.
Delightful and illuminating… Illustrations from ‘The Where, the Why, and the How’.
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Posted: November 20, 2012 Filed under: Things we like | Tags: 3d printing, action figures, drugs, metro trains, safety, soap bubbles, solar eclipse 2 Comments »Vermin celebration
How do drugs make us ‘high’? The clever folk at the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah created this animated game to help explain how drugs like marijuana and cocaine affect our brains.
Be safe, go viral
Just the word safety makes most people yawn. How to make it something people care about? A catchy tune and adorable animation always helps. We tip our safety goggles to Metro Trains.
Personal action figure for Christmas?
A 3D printing photobooth in Tokyo now lets you get that gift you’ve always wanted- a little you.
Trippy soap bubbles
Soap bubbles that look like science fiction. Macro photography at its coolest.
Eclipse wonder
I think even non-geeks agree there is something very humbling and awe-inspiring about a solar eclipse. If you haven’t seen it already, we bring you totality.
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Posted: November 7, 2012 Filed under: Things we like Leave a comment »Did you see #Hendra trending on Twitter last week? Once we contained our excitement, we noticed some other pieces of awesome across the internets. Here are five, for your oohs, ahs and lols.
Big win for weedy seadragon
This stunner won the 2012 National Geographic Oceans Photography comp. High five to the amateur wildlife photographer Richard Wylie, for snapping the gorgeous photo off Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. His prize is a $27,000 photographic expedition to Alaska.
xkcd: the problem with scientists
If you haven’t yet discovered ‘the webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language’, now’s the time.
Don’t get your slinky in a knot
For some Aussie slinky science, check out this slinky drop slow-mo from veritasium. Really, it’s HD and awesome.
The Elements, by Theodore Gray
An oldie but a goodie, this iPad app (and book and poster and card deck) is a thing of beauty… and great for a dinner party pop-quiz.
#science140
Cram science factoids into 140 characters and you can write a book solely on Twitter. Here’s a taster “Plain English definition: 1 nanometre is the amount a man’s beard grows in the time it takes him to lift a razor to his face.” Grab the book, or you can follow @science140 on Twitter.
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Posted: October 30, 2012 Filed under: Things we like | Tags: chemistry, flexagon, graphs, halloween, hexaflexagon, maths, Micrography, nerd love, Pi, tables, things we like Leave a comment »Just when you thought the internet had blown up from Gangnam style saturation, we discovered some new winners. And they’re popular in our books.
Here are our top 5 delicious internet things from the past week (in no particular order):
The small stuff
Nikon’s Small World Microphotography competition features some jaw-dropping little suckers, including this blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo that scored first place.
Sexy graphs
There’s always room in my heart for a graph that makes you go “mmmmmmm”. Felice Frankel’s new book Visualizing Science shows how you can give data the wow-factor (for researchers, or graph nerds like myself)
Pumpkin Pi
If there’s a mathematical link to the 31/10, it’s in and around a pumpkin. Thanks to Neatorama for the share.
And fold and bend and flex
It could be aerobics, or it could be a happy clever flexagon. Have a hexaflexagon party with Vihart’s YouTube mathemusic.
Okay, sorry.
But this makes me giggle.
Now we’re just waiting for your Mars rover Halloween costumes to come rolling in for next week’s faves. Really, I like them already.
