Over the past week, the Nobel prizes have been awarded in chemistry, medicine, peace, physics and literature.Over the intervening 109 years, more than 500 prizes have been awarded. But which nation...
Catapult chair K-36 D equipped with rocket engine, safety deflector and stabilizing parachutesvia en.rian.ru Published on Power of Data Visualization. Note: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader...
Noise What You Need to Hear.via www.fixr.com
This chart shows the relationship between the angular elevation of the sun relative to the horizon and levels of twilight. The values are for the 24 hours between 1pm BST 12th August 2010 and 1pm BST...
It's just a picture of a Muhammad Ali fighting. Someone very cleverly added some lines that represent concepts of physics; as past (wrong hit by the opponent), present (the look of Ali) and future...
The scaling fallacy is a tendency to assume that a system that works at one scale also works at a larger or smaller scale. Different scales bring with them a new set of challenges that require a new...
Communicating with a submerged submarine has always been difficult, and since the submarine has to come up to periscope depth it has also been risky. Now a new buoy developed by Lockheed Martin should...
via msnbc.msn.com What exactly is going on with all the oil spewing into the Gulf, biologically speaking? MSNBC explains in a series of graphics
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