“Being a nerd just means you’re passionate about something.” – Zachary Levi
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Brain activity is as unique as fingerprints, and correlates to intelligence, study finds Coming soon: job interviews by brain scan?
http://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-activity-is-as-unique-as-your-fingerprints-and-correlates-to-your-intelligence-study-finds
Tesla’s newest car could be the driverless taxi of the future
http://www.techinsider.io/tesla-model-x-hints-at-a-driverless-taxi-2015-10?utm_content=buffer2bde0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti
By Not Challenging Gifted Kids, What Do We Risk Losing?
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/what-do-we-risk-losing-by-not-challenging-gifted-kids/
How Students Make Progress in Learning
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/how-students-make-progress-in-learning/
The science of early birds vs. night owls:
http://sci2.tv/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ScienceChannel/#!/videos/1689
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/03/23/the-secret-art-of-dr-seuss/
Sylvia Plath Poet Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer.
Born: October 27, 1932, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA
Died: February 11, 1963, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Ted Hughes (m. 1956–1963)
Buried: February 1963, St Thomas A. Beckett Churchyard, Heptonstall, United Kingdom
Children: Frieda Hughes, Nicholas Hughes
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft’s versatility allows us to send astronauts to multiple deep space destinations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib4djfbik40&index=2&list=PL2aBZuCeDwlTy4VWxqGpnl__OermSUxzX
Museums tiptoe around climate change
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140614-museums-tiptoe-around-climate-change.ece
Make Your Own Air Conditioner At Home Using Household Items
http://wonderfulengineering.com/make-your-own-air-conditioner-at-home-using-household-items/
Fireflies – Artwork by Otis Frampton
Backstage with Bill at the #Stanford14 commencement.
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25968677/bill-and-melinda-gates-plead-stanford-grads-improve
This Victorian Totoro Gown is Truly Enchanting
Rendering a Pokemon battle scene in Excel when you’re bored in class? Simply brilliant!
How Mind-Wandering and “Positive Constructive Daydreaming” Boost Our Creativity and Social Skills
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/09/mind-wandering-and-creativity/
RUMOR MILL: A List of DC Movies to be Released Over Next 4 Years
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2014/06/13/rumor-mill-a-list-of-dc-movies-to-be-released-over-next-4-years/
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Critical Thinking
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
A shot against heart attacks?
Harvard researchers say simple ‘genome editing’ may dramatically lower risk of such crises in future
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/06/a-shot-against-heart-attacks/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-facebook-general
You might ask whether this strange vehicle is a Vespa or whether it’s a camper van. The answer is that it is both and the idea came from Cornelius Comanns.
http://interestingengineering.com/is-it-a-vespa-or-is-it-a-camper-van/
Beautiful Batgirl (Stephanie Brown) Cosplay [Pics]
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/10/04/beautiful-batgirl-stephanie-brown-cosplay-pics/
Angling for Invasives
A park ranger at Mexico’s Banco Chinchorro spies an invasive lionfish (Pterois). (Flickr, Scripps Oceanographic Institute, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza)
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40184/title/Image-of-the-Day–Angling-for-Invasives/
Genome Digest
Researchers decode the genomes of a eucalyptus tree and sheep, among others
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40192/title/Genome-Digest/
Once, it was only a game. Now it is a never-ending drama, a soap opera watched all over the world.
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/tim-de-lisle/how-did-sport-get-so-big
Babies are born sterile, but immediately start to pick up bacteria and parasites both on the inside and outside of the body.
http://sci2.tv/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ScienceChannel/#!/videos/776
“Everything is naturally related and interconnected.”
Lady Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, on science and religion – beautiful
1844 letter to her friend: Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer, on Science and Religion
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/10/ada-lovelace-science-religion-letter/
http://interestingengineering.com/say-hello-to-pepper-the-first-humanoid-robot-in-the-world/
When Einstein Met Tagore
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-tagore/
Women have had the right to vote in Ontario since 1917!
50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/50_skills_every_real_geek_should_have
Creative Classroom: Elihu Rubin teaches undergraduates to notice what is often ignored
http://news.yale.edu/2014/06/09/creative-classroom-elihu-rubin-teaches-undergraduates-notice-what-often-ignored
What everyday item would you create on demand with a 3D printer?
NASCAR teams can use them to create parts for faster cars.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/worlds-strangest/videos/3d-printing-comes-to-race-cars.htm?mkcpgn=fbsci1&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ScienceChannel
Music Lessons Combat Poverty’s Effect on the Brain
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/music-lessons-combat-povertys-effect-on-the-brain/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
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