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Game Controller Cufflinks

Young people today have lots of experience… interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It’s almost as if they can read but not write.

—MIT Media Labs’ Mitch Resnick | Everyone Should Code  (via courtenaybird)

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jaymug: ‘Star Wars’ USB Flash Drives by Jacopo Rosati

jaymug:

‘Star Wars’ USB Flash Drives by Jacopo Rosati

Inside feelings are valuable in science too, but only for giving you ideas that you later test by looking for evidence. A scientist can have a ‘hunch’ about an idea that just ‘feels’ right. In itself, this is not a good reason for believing something. But it can be a good reason for spending some time doing a particular experiment, or looking in a particular way for evidence. Scientists use inside feelings all the time to get ideas. But they are not worth anything until they are supported by evidence.

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Richard Dawkins on evidence in science, life and love: A must-read letter to his 10-year-old daughter

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jtotheizzoe: This is what it looks like to shock flowers with 80,000 volts. In this odd but old photographic technique (called Kirlian photography), the object is placed over photographic film over a metal plate. When the extreme voltages are applied, the air surrounding the flower is ionized, leaving a ghostly electric image on the film. The remainder of the colorful image is hand-painted later. Check out Robert Buelteman’s gallery for more shockingly ethereal flowers. Bonus: Check out this gallery of plants imaged via electromagnetic photography at myampgoesto11. Gorgeous! (via DeMilked)

jtotheizzoe:

This is what it looks like to shock flowers with 80,000 volts. In this odd but old photographic technique (called Kirlian photography), the object is placed over photographic film over a metal plate. When the extreme voltages are applied, the air surrounding the flower is ionized, leaving a ghostly electric image on the film. The remainder of the colorful image is hand-painted later.

Check out Robert Buelteman’s gallery for more shockingly ethereal flowers.

Bonus: Check out this gallery of plants imaged via electromagnetic photography at myampgoesto11. Gorgeous!

(via DeMilked)

jaymug:

Male Stripper Billboard by Interbest Outdoor - Y&R Not Just Film

emergentfutures: A Patch that Monitors the Body The International Consumer Electronics Show had its share of activity measuring devices, from tiny clips that hang on a pocket to lanyards and wristbands that convert a phone into a private coach. But BodyMedia is taking a different approach with the Vue Patch, a disposable monitor in a stick-on patch like a large Band-Aid. Once glued on, the Vue will collect data on activity level, sleep patterns and calories burned day and night for week. Full Story: NYT

emergentfutures:

A Patch that Monitors the Body

The International Consumer Electronics Show had its share of activity measuring devices, from tiny clips that hang on a pocket to lanyards and wristbands that convert a phone into a private coach.

But BodyMedia is taking a different approach with the Vue Patch, a disposable monitor in a stick-on patch like a large Band-Aid. Once glued on, the Vue will collect data on activity level, sleep patterns and calories burned day and night for week.

Full Story: NYT