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11 books on science Bill Gates thinks everyone should read
Vintage cool: Velvet Underground
There's a banana and some vintage old school cool. That's all it takes to make it onto my blog 🙂 https://youtu.be/jog8gh40Fho
Bionic ‘Skippy’ saves energy spent jumping
BionicKangaroo – energy-efficient jump kinematics based on a natural model Festo has reproduced the unique way a kangaroo moves. The mechanical can recover the energy it spent jumping, store it and efficiently use it for the next jump. Almost like the…
The gypsy jazz style of Klezmer music
Klezmer is a Jewish folk musician of eastern Europe, played by small, traditionally itinerant bands. Musicologists have noted similarities between Klezmer and other improvisational styles such as gypsy music and jazz. Klezmer is a Yiddish name that can either be applied…
Making words into patterns
This is very clever!
Visualising rain patterns over 50 years
Stephen Von Worley from the site Data Pointed has charted the last fifty years of rainfall in downtown San Francisco. He uses a line per rain year – that is, the period running from July 1st through the following June,…
Einstein’s tongue still has us talking
I get many referrals from around the world to my blog from people searching for "Einstein + tongue". Here is the original post.
Mr SKA
Lou's family have started calling him "Mr SKA"... Lou Puls, maintenance officer at CSIRO's Square Kilometre Array Telescope facility in the remote Murchison district of Western Australia, has helped escort many international and national journalists and scientists around the facility and is regularly pictured…
My brain got picked!
I was excited to be featured recently on the excellent blog and Twitter of @brainpicker My surname was slightly misspelled but it links to this post about famous science fiction author Arthur C Clarke describing the first iPad (or news-pad, as…
We need to talk about Kevin’s mugshot
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a well-known novel by Lionel Shriver. Based on Shriver's description of the psychopathic Kevin, the title character of the story, what would the boy look like? According to The Composites website, which creates identikit pictures based on…
