You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.” – Microsoft“
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Top 10 Cool Umbrellas
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Medieval Deadpool Armor
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The definitive manifesto for handling haters — Anne Lamott on how we keep ourselves small with people-pleasing, one of the best things I’ve read in years:
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Future Tech? Autonomous Killer Robots Are Already Here
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Hello, Naia! 12,000-Year-Old Girl’s DNA Reveals First Americans’ Roots
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Now You Too Can Summon a Great Old One with this Cthulhuian Font!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RALPH STEADMAN: HUNTER S. THOMPSON COLLABORATOR TURNS 78 TODAY
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Know Any Overachievers That Are Upset Over Not Yet Doing Something ‘Great’? Show Them This.
Fine carpentry: another job robots can now do better than humans.
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Order to the Chaos of Life: Isabel Allende on Writing
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Restaurant loos are now seen as a key part of the eating-out experience. We flush out five different approaches
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Stars don’t last forever, but dying stars are strangely beautiful.
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Future Robots Will Have Moral and Ethical Sense
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The body responds similarly to toxic stress and infections, by ramping up production of c-reactive protein.
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Share in the excitement of Yale’s commencement! Download and update your Facebook page with one of these commemorative headers
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Make Your Own Portable Reading Lamp With These Simple Steps
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NASA scientists hammer out plans for rock-collecting Mars spaceship.
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The New Haven Public Schools’ citywide Science Fair is a community effort with many of Connecticut’s colleges and tech companies providing mentors to assist teachers and students in producing meaningful investigative science projects
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Don’t miss back-to-back new episode of Stephen Hawking’s #BraveNewWorld starting tonight at 10/9c.
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There are many remote control robots out there, usually in the shape of cars, trucks and even animals. Now we have seen the world’s first running robot with legs, the OutRunner, made available to the public and it could beat you on the running track as it is able to run up to 20 mph.
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Two entrepreneurs who met at the MIT Media Lab are building STEM toys for a new generation.
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If William Shakespeare Had Written Star Wars
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TRON Goes Super-Sexy
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A HUMAN TAROT COMES TO LIFE IN ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY’S ‘THE DANCE OF REALITY’ link
Watch a GIANT Gummy Bear Dissolve in a Fiery Flash of Sugar and Potassium Chlorate
Watch scientists bring a synthetic jellyfish to life, in hopes of one day building an artificial human heart.
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Isaac Asimov on the Thrill of Lifelong Learning, Science vs. Religion, and the Role of Science Fiction in Advancing Society
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How to Brand Yourself on Social Media in College
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Joyce Carol Oates on Wonder, Consciousness, and the Art of Beholding Beauty
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So, the Doctor, Amy Pond, and Draco Malfoy Walk Onto a Plane… 
New Type Of Plastic Can Repair Itself Just Like A Living Organism 
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Experimentation, collaboration, and object-based teaching were prominent themes at last week’s conference “Expanding a Shared Vision: The Art Museum and the University”
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Want to keep your kids safe and connected to you? Check out this new smartphone that is made specially for your kids!
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Meet 5 Women Who Are Changing Other Women’s Lives
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Aluminium Powder Ignites in Super Slow Motion [Video] Some beautiful slow-mo footage of aluminium powder igniting in super slow motion. Want to learn more about element 13? Then be sure to check out this enlightening video about the metal!
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Derek Jarman: Early Super 8 movie ‘Sloane Square: A Room of One’s Own’
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The Moons of Mars Explained: Phobos & Deimos [Science Video] What do you know about the Moons of Mars? Nothing? They are super cool (and strange), promise.
Sand circles kept appearing on the bottom of the sea and for over ten years what had made them was unknown, now we know it is a new species of Pufferfish.
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Michael Lewis on Writing, Money, and the Necessary Self-Delusion of Creativity
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George Lucas on the Meaning of Life
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Calvin and Hobbes + Game of Thrones
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Ridiculously Great Zelda Cosplay
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See how casting a carpenter ant colony with molten aluminum turns out!
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It’s a wonder we haven’t all gone “mad scientist”
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Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? Scientists and Writers Answer Little Kids’ Big Questions about How Life Works
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This Full Size Bike Can be Folded Down to The Size Of An Umbrella
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If you’ve ever been in a rut, you’ll appreciate KU Instructor Misty Brannan’s tips on the KUWC Faculty Blog for getting motivated. She addresses teachers, but her ideas transcend any one path. Enjoy the read!
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Virginia Woolf Visits Stonehenge
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Aquanaut Dives Deep and Dies, Disheartening Scientists
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Zack Snyder Unveils New Batmobile!
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H.R. GIGER AND DEBBIE HARRY INTERVIEW, 1981
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Artist Illustrates Young Cartoon Characters as Adults
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The Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program’s “Blast Off” lab required student teams to plan, obtain resources, and build a product within budget and on schedule. In this photo,
Cameron McAlpine (GEL ’13), Jim Magarian (Engineering Leadership Specialist), and Predrag Gruevski (GEL ’14) send off a water-propelled rocket.
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Trekked-Out Boca Raton Estate For Sale
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Neutron Death Mystery Has Physicists Stymied
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Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it’s really bad news.
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Now Charge Your Devices Through This Portable Wind Turbine Power Station
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A gene essential for normal brain development, and also linked to autism spectrum disorders, plays an important role in addiction-related behaviors.
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The Backfire Effect – the fascinating psychology of why we have a hard time changing our minds
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Gonzo – a graphic biography of Hunter S. Thompson
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Zombie doorstop
The World’s Oldest Experiment Reaches Thrilling Climax 
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“Il Bibliomotocarro” brings books and joy to Italian villagers by Claire Kelley Retired schoolteacher Antonio La Cava from Ferrandina, Italy calls himself “the master of the road” in his little book mobile, a vehicle he created to be a library —complete with a little chimney— on wheels. He has traveled the Italian countryside since 2003, bringing books to children and adults on eight different stops in various villages in the region of Basilicata in the south. He plays an organ to announce that he has arrived, and the children come running to browse through his books. Do you have an idea that could change the world? Enter The Next Einstein contest for a chance to win $10,000 and much more. link
Brilliant: Major movements in philosophy, as minimalist geometric graphics
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When engineering meets art
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New nanoparticles designed by MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and MIT Chemical Engineering researchers offer best-ever gene silencing, could help treat liver diseases
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MIT Department of Physics researchers propose using distant quasars to test Bell’s theorem.
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Changing neural activity in frontal & temporal lobes of brain can cause lucid dreaming.
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MIT Media Lab’s CityFARM and spinoff Grove are reinventing how we harvest food.
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