What does an astrophysicist do on a cloudy day? Create art. Alex Parker, who is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was bored when a cloudy day meant he couldn’t do work at the observatory. So he got the idea to make a mosaic-style version of the famous Van Gogh, “Starry Night”, […]
Another of our favorite Food-nerds, Adrianna Adarme, who has a fun blog called A Cozy Kitchen, eats her way through LA’s Echo Park – visiting her favorite cheap, and not-so-cheap eats along the way. And if you missed Josh Ozersky talking about NYC’s Hamburger Alley, well, that’s right down this way. [The Hungry Channel]
Beat Down Boogie does it again; a great look at some of the amazing and fun costumers throughout Dragon*Con weekend. It always reminds me just how much I miss at DragonCon, I didn’t see half these costumes!
Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world’s leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment. [Via IHC]
In my opinion, Facebook is focusing on the wrong problem here – they’ve got plenty of other things they need to research and fix! With roughly 955 million users, Facebook is concerned that not all their users are real people. And now they’re asking you to nark on your friends who aren’t using their real […]
An 11 year old has won $20,000 from AT&T in an app competition to try and discourage texting while driving. In collaboration with the designer David Grau, Victoria Walker created an app called Rode Dog for the “It Can Wait” campaign. How the app works is that you join a “pack” with your friends (you all have […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ctwl63XCg My friends and I have been laughing at this for weeks. If this were an actual children’s game, I’d fear for the world and restaurant owners across the country.
One of our favorite Food-nerds in the country, Josh Ozersky, eats his way through what he calls ‘Hamburger Alley’ in NYC – consuming five different delicious looking burgers in probably about one hour. You can practically smell the heart-attack wafting through this video player! [The Hungry Channel]
Yes, I swear, this is the last cat post for today, but this one got me laughing so hard that I just had to post it. I’m sorry. :) [Buzzfeed]
Another great video from the folks @ ASAP Science. Time for some interesting facts to make your head explode! Now you can sound even smarter around your friends with these simple but super fun facts about life! [ASAPSCIENCE]