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Andy Baio : The Big Picture on CERN's Large Hadron Collider - The Economist explains the LHC's importance for the layman
nelson : Large Hadron Collider - Great pictures
Simon Willison : Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Large Hadron Collider nearly ready—The Big Picture. Stunningly beautiful set of photographs of the LHC. I love Big Science.
jonhicks : Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - Beautiful photos of the device that will swallow us all up in a black hole
Rod Begbie : Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - I'm bored of "beauty in nature" -- Hurrah for The Big Picture covering beauty in science! Enjoy these photos before they turn the collider on, and we all get sucked into black hole. #
Greg Storey : If for some reason the Earth gets sucked into a black hole this weekend... - here's why.
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deusx : Mechanical Pencils Turn On Their Human Overlords | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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10 month ago
deusx : Elizabeth Bear - Fiction - Tideline - "Chalcedony wasn't built for crying. She didn't have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her."
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32 month ago
Andy Baio : Video: Incredible Machines - more Japanese Rube Goldberg fun; also: cooking ramen, the hard way [via]
plasticbag : PistolWimp.com has this insane piece of Google video featuring thousands of insane machines made of books and marbles and magnets and stuff - Ludicrously addictive ten minutes of viewing awaits you. Say it with me everyone: pata-kowa-so-ree-chi! I've no idea what it means but I can't get it out of my head.
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32 month ago
erikbenson : The Segway creator's next project - Water and electricity machines for (relatively) cheap. Part of their innovation is an interesting distribution model. Sell small machines to people so they can rent them out. Make them business people. Better than going through the government perhaps.
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