TED: Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel - Joe
Smith (2012)

post from TEDTalks (video) on 28 April 2012 09:57:11 AM. © TEDTalks (video)

You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique.

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Exoplanetary Tourism

post from Supernova Condensate on 28 April 2012 08:37:38 AM. © Supernova Condensate

Even though, lamentably, we're quite far away from actually being able to visit exoplanets, this hasn't stopped one particularly awesome graphic artist, going by the name of Chungkong, from creating a set of rather marvellous travel posters for them!

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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 28 April 2012 08:17:31 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Wired Top Stories: It's an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up. Or something like that. These are all pretty common assertions in modern business/tech journa

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Space Travel Coming to an Airport Near You Maybe,
if Skylon Keeps its Cool

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 28 April 2012 08:12:29 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Engadget: Want to get from New York to Perth in under 4 hours, or maybe just head to outer space on a lark? Reaction Engines' "Skylon" mach 5 spaceplane might be your chariot -- or not. Its scheme of ingesting oxygen from the atmosphere instead of stowing it like a 50-year old moder

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measuring our brains with the wrong ruler

post from weird things on 28 April 2012 07:25:01 AM. © weird things

There are many things at which North Korea is really, really incompetent. It’s bad at launching rockets. It’s bad at even trying to appease its populace. It’s rulers are incapable of staying in power without resorting to terror and[...]

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Thinking, shredding and gardening

post from Sciencebase Science Blog on 28 April 2012 06:34:24 AM. © Sciencebase Science Blog

An odd mix of books on my desk for review right now and just one of them with a strong scientific angle: Imagine: How creativity works by Jonah Lehrer, The Haynes Fender Stratocaster Manual by Paul Palmer and A Year in the Garden by “Mr Digwell”. Lehrer’s Imagine discusses the origin so creativity, something that [...]

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