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A short film made entirely by students from the Valencia-based school of animation PrimerFrame , pre-production began in March 2010, completing a year later and has since received numerous awards, nominations and national projections and internationall… Continue reading
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Worf Is Always Wrong
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Worf is a Klingon character in ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ and in seasons four to seven of ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.’ Worf is a character who doesn’t get much respect – despite frequent suggestions for action, he is routinely deni… Continue reading
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Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Heinrich Hertz
Today’s Google doodle takes the form of electromagnetic waves to pay tribute to German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz on his 155th birth anniversary. Hertz was born at Hamburg on February 22, 1857. Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio w… Continue reading
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Portrait Made With Coffe Cup Rings
Malaysian artist Hong Yi (nicknamed Red) graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a Master of Architecture degree and a Bachelor of Planning and Design degree. In her final year, she was awarded a Melbourne Abroad Scholarship to stu… Continue reading
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Wau: The Most Amazing, Ancient, And Singular Number
Wau (the ancestor of the Latin letter F) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet which originally stood for the sound /w/ and later remained in use only as a numeral symbol for the number ’6′. Whereas it was originally called wau, its most common ap… Continue reading
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Dune De Pyla – A New ‘Sahara’ Desert Being Born In France
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It looks like Europe has started turning into a new sahara desert. The Great Dune of Pyla is the tallest sand dune in Europe. It is located in the Arcachon Bay area in France.
The dune has a volume of about 60,000,000 m³, measuring arou… Continue reading
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Listerine Cigarettes
Listerine is a brand of antiseptic mouthwash. It was named after Joseph Lister who promoted the idea of sterile surgery by sterilizing instruments.
Originally marketed by the Lambert Pharmacal Company (which later became Warner-Lambert), it is curren… Continue reading
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Photographer Spends Over 10 Years Building 35-Foot-Long Camera
In a world where all things small are considered beautiful and cool, a photographer is doing something quite drastically different from the norm. Dennis Manarchy is in the process of creating a camera that is so huge, it captures 24-foot tall realisti… Continue reading
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6 Everyday Things Seen Really Close Up
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Microscopes turn everyday things like table salt and Velcro into otherworldly landscapes full of massive crystal blocks and fields of black twisted trunks thrust into the air. Besides being an invaluable tool in scientific fields too nume… Continue reading
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About The President’s Secret Army
The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command is best known for the Osama bin Laden raid. But it has long served as the president’s secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous, highly classified missions of the United States military. In 2009, i… Continue reading
DarwinBot – The Pet Companion Robot
Jordan Correa is a developer on the Microsoft Robotics Team and recently built a remotely operated robot for interacting and playing with his pet over the internet. It has two way audio and video through Skype, a ball launcher, treat dispenser, ball re… Continue reading
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Fanfare
Here’s something to brighten up your day. Take a tuba, a trumpet, a bass drum, a snare drum, a sousaphone, and a trombone and what do you get. You get a fanfare. Click on the characters to make them play.
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Buenos Aires – Inception Park
Buenos Aires – Inception Park, directed by Fernando Livschitz.
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The Hospital Room Of Tomorrow
In this infographic, you’ll see the hospital room of the future where advances in medical science and technology promise to provide you with better medicine and a more pleasurable experience.
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Self-Made Carousel
A self-made carousel from Moldova Brazil. That has to go wrong.
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What’s The Difference Between A Street And A Road?
What’s the difference between a street and a road? Although both terms are often applied to the same thing, a road is different from a street, at least in theory. Looking at the definitions and history of the usage of the words, the difference is a ma… Continue reading
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The Indian Rural Olympics
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The Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur, in Punjab, India. Competition is held for major Punjabi rural sports, including cart-races, and rope pulling, plow-in-the-mouth balancing… Continue reading
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Keyboard Pants
Nerd alert! Pants with a built-in keyboard. Designed by Dutch duo Erik de Nijs and Tim Smit. The ‘Beauty and The Geek’ pants also contain a wireless mouse, and speakers. The keyboard pants can be tethered to your computer using either a bluetooth conn… Continue reading
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Tornado On The Sun
Here’s something you’ve probably never seen before. For a 30 hour spell – on February 7 and 8, 2012 – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma caught in a magnetic dance across the Sun’s surface. The results closely resemble extreme tornadic a… Continue reading
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