Nerd Track 11 – Lab Core | The Lab of MrNetTek

“Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” – Mandy Hale

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Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/19/open-university-thought-experiments/

Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/03/allen-ginsberg-william-blake/

The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/09/paul-otlet-alex-wright/

ZOMBIE OBSTACLE COURSE! ANIME KARAOKE! A PREDATOR WEDDING! IT’S THE PHOENIX
COMICON

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/06/zombie-obstacle-course-anime-karaoke-a-predator-wedding-its-the-phoenix-comicon/

Honda The Power of Dreams! – Checkout this ride:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=657524274339589&set=vb.384582714967081&type=2&theater&notif_t=notify_me

June 7th 2014 – 149th Yale-Harvard Regatta

http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-crewhvy/2013-14/releases/20140604j4enps

Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/02/kandinsky-concerning-the-spiritual-in-art/

Intelligent Life magazine: Our writer of the week is Samantha Weinberg. Read her on the best fish story of our time
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/features/anonymous/fish-our-time

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The essential beach guide for Saturn’s moon Titan.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lake-on-saturn-s-largest-moon-may-have-waves/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://store.ptk.org/

Summer studies often mean Yalies traveling near and far. Pictured here are students from Prof. Jacobowitz’s course, The City of Tokyo, at the Asakusa Kannon Temple, Tokyo.

“One of the coolest things about studying abroad is that we get to see the things we talk about in class. We had discussed the role of the Asakusa area as an entertainment district in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, and then we were able to visit and see it for ourselves!” — S. Siow ’17

Where The Wild Things Are Growing (Part 1)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/2014/06/03/where-the-wild-things-are-growing-part-1/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

William Blake’s Mesmerizing Illustrations for John Milton’s Paradise Lost

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/13/william-blake-paradise-lost/

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Exoplanet Size: It’s Elementary

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2014/06/03/exoplanet-size-its-elementary/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

Hotel room where you have the river (and fish) under your feet…
http://interestingengineering.com/most-unique-hotel-room-in-bali-with-river-under-your-feet/

Imaging Fly Muscles
A 3-D visualization of a blowfly thorax that shows steering muscles (green to blue) and power muscles (yellow to red). The image was created with in vivo time-resolved microtomography.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40129/title/Image-of-the-Day–Imaging-Fly-Muscles/

Yale News: Construction of new residential colleges moving forward, thanks to fundraising efforts

http://news.yale.edu/2014/06/03/construction-new-residential-colleges-moving-forward-thanks-fundraising-efforts

Explosives 101: Students get to experience where experts come to train, and blow up this vehicle.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/worlds-strangest/videos/explosives-101.htm?mkcpgn=fbsci1&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ScienceChannel

A quantum computer could evolve humans beyond what we know now and eliminate problems like war and poverty.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/teleportation1.htm

Mathematical Impressions: Spontaneous Stratification
still from video
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematical-impressions-spontaneous-stratification-video/

Evolution Sparks Silence of the Crickets
cricket
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evolution-sparks-silence-of-the-crickets/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

Habitable Planets Search Deflated by Stellar Wind
icy exoplanet
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/habitable-planets-search-deflated-by-stellar-wind/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

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J. Meejin Yoon has been appointed the new head of MIT’s Department of Architecture. Widely honored for her work in architecture, design, and education, Yoon will be the first woman in this post.
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/j-meejin-yoon-appointed-head-department-architecture

Rats could become man’s new best friend … when it comes to sniffing out land mines.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/worlds-strangest/videos/how-rats-detect-land-mines.htm?mkcpgn=fbsci1&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ScienceChannel

Secret Clinical Trial Data to Go Public

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/secret-clinical-trial-data-to-go-public/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook