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  • Standing Workstations: Sitting down all day is killing you

    Get off your butt and make some tea if you want to live By Simon Sharwood, Posted in Science, 27th March 2012 07:11 GMT I am writing this blog entry at a standing workstation which a lot of people still view as an oddity despite the data provided in each study that is being published. …

  • Engineering: It’s Like Math But Louder

    I just found this on Adafruit, well, actually from Limor Fried on Google+. Formulas and variables and integrals and derivatives: to the casual observer it looks like you’re doing MATH. But you’re NOT. Because when you solve for x, things EXPLODE. You’re doing ENGINEERING. Shirt created, designed and supplied by David Malki ! http://wondermark.com/  …

  • The World’s Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine

    It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption…

  • Differential gears: The Movie

    A ten-minute-long 1930′s extravaganza presentation about differential gears, found courtesy of Improbable Research: BONUS: Video of a much older AND younger set of differential gears: the antikythera mechanism; and of a logo version of same.

  • More Robots – The Big Picture

    Image via Wikipedia http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/more_robots.html Scientists, students and corporations continue their work around the world in the field of robotics, persistently improving and redefining their capabilities, interfaces and roles in society. Unmanned vehicles fly above war zones, telerobotics give humans a broader virtual presence and humanoid robots gain more parity with humans, refining their movements and…