So after posting that “plotting love” shirt a few days ago, a bunch of you guys started creating various equations to improve on ThinkGeek’s heart-shaped design. Here are the results, as generated by the “humane” version of Skynet itself. plot x^2 + (y-(x^2)^(1/3))^2,x=-1..1,y=-1..1.5 polar plot 2 – 2 sin t + sin t sqrt (abs(cos […]
We already knew that our direct ancestors were by no means a bunch of knuckle-draggers. Now fossil analysis suggests they walked permanently rather than swinging from trees. The findings come from a fossilised footbone from an Australopithecus afarensis, which was a hominid. That’s the family which eventually developed into humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and gibbons. The […]
This week, an episode of NOVA covered Watson, the IBM supercomputer designed to interpret and understand natural human language, with all its ambiguity: wordplay, puns, double-meanings, intuitive differentiations and subtlety. Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is the result of the DeepQA Project, the goal of which is to create a computer system […]
Yes, I totally posted this only because I thought the shirt looked clever and cool. That girl had absolutely nothing to do with it. ;) Oh, and for all our readers belonging to the fairer sex, I’ve commissioned Adrienne, one of our newest contributors, to write something exclusively for you gals, so wait for it […]
Rejoice, Geeks! It’s the International Year of Chemistry, according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). How can you celebrate? Well, DO SCIENCE, of course. Get some resources from the IYC website or carry out your own experiments. After all, “we need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner […]
Remember Theo Jensen’s AMAZING kinetic walkers? Well geeks, some people got the brilliant idea of building a similar machine, but instead of powering it by wind, they used a hamster ball to make it go forward. Check it out: Brilliant concept, isn’t it? [Source]
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February 3, 1966: The first spacecraft to land on any non-Earth planetary body, the Soviet Union’s unmanned Luna 9 reaches the Moon. Equipped with radio and television capability, heat control system, power sources and a radiation detector, the payload touched down in Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”). Immediately thereafter, the four-panel seal opened and Luna […]
Geek hero Carl Sagan’s moving Pale Blue Dot monologue over Halo Reach footage. If this isn’t the convergence of all things awesome, I shudder to think what might be.
The following video shows the view we would have of various planets from Earth if they’d orbit our world at the same distance as the moon. Check it out: [Via]