No Punches Pulled in This Ridiculous Clinton vs Trump Showdown Game
If you’ve ever wondered how US politics look like to outsiders this “Rock’em Sock’em” Clinton vs. Trump board game gives an idea.
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Brick, Steak, Phones, & Bitcoin: How Tech and Design Intersect to Shape Our Future
We attended design summit “Knotty Objects” at the MIT Media Lab to talk about technology, design, and the future of humanity. Here’s how it went.
Craft Your Way Through the Election
Unless you’ve been hiding under a Ba-rock (sorry) you have been inundated with information and opinions about this election. This post contains none of that, I just wanted to show you how the cute, but now retired blog, Sewer Sewist celebrated the last election with their Obama Craft Project . A refreshingly positive and fun way of dealing with these elections. So keep yourself sane with your crotchet, knitting, or sewing needles tonight!
Engineer Guy vs. The Atomic Bomb
One of the great treats of my chemistry education at UT-Austin was having the original gaseous diffusion process for enriching uranium explained to me by a man who worked on the Manhattan Project to implement it, the late great Dr. Norman Hackerman. Bill treats it just as well, and goes on to cover the details of the more modern gas centrifuge process.
Petition the White House for Open Journal Access
At issue is free public access to scientific information gathered using tax dollars. Which, in the US, is about a third of it. If you’ve ever been hot on the trail of a technical lead and run up against a robot demanding $40 to download one four-page, thirty-year-old journal article, you know what I’m talking about.
You Actually Can Put A Gun Rack In A Chevy Volt, Newt Gingrich
Turns out, you CAN put a gun rack in Chevy Volt! Watch.
Geiger Counter Tree Lights Respond to Radiation
I will spare you the obligatory “nuclear family Christmas” joke. From British artist Nikki Pugh.
