May 2012
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Quantum propulsion system for spacecraft invented →
Aisha Mustafa, a 19-year-old Egyptian physics student, has invented a promising new quantum propulsion system for spacecraft.
Sci-fi is real.
Via Kottke
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Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and...
– The Blind Giant (via theblindgiant)
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Bioengineers Now Able To Write And Rewrite... →
Up until recently, bioengineers were only able to write data once to DNA, but Bioengineers at Stanford University have now discovered a way to write and rewrite data to a strand of DNA. “We can write and erase DNA in a living cell,” says Jerome Bonnet, a bioengineer at Stanford University. “Now we can bring logic and computation inside a cell itself.”
Science is awesome.
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thedailyfeed : popculturebrain : Character... →
Update: This is a post shared via [Pocket][] on my iPhone. It didn’t do a great job for image posts to be honest. It was my first try to post from [Pocket][], however.
Click on the link above to see some cool Batman posters..
[Pocket]:
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When superheroes fuck up..
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Time Travel: Why are people from the future not...
This Quora thread is fantastic.
Here’s the opening question, and it only gets better and better the further down the answers you go.
Time travel technology is available in the future. The future is not yet here, but once it is, and time relocation becomes available, you may ask:
If the future includes mastering time relocation technology, why haven’t people come back to visit...
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'Bust a Move' by Young MC featuring Flea from the...
I did not know that until 39 years into my life. Well, I’ll be…
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Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47 →
RIP, MCA of the Beastie Boys.
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An update on Jeff Hanneman, guitarist of Slayer →
itsmetal:
Slayer fans everywhere - it’s time to let you know what is going on with our brother Jeff Hanneman.
As you know, Jeff was bitten by a spider more than a year ago, but what you may not have known was that for a couple of days after he went to the ER, things were touch-and-go. There was talk that he might have to have his arm amputated, and we didn’t know if he was going to pull...
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We penalize kids for getting distracted from boring stuff at school
– /via @52Tiger
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Free Fall From Space
Felix Baumgartner will jump 120,000ft - less than 40 miles from SPACE - after having successfully completed a test jump in New Mexico Thursday
Watch the video here
Via Buzzfeed
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