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Somehow, this makes Jurassic Park even better! picked by sidran32 4 days ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Unless they've been stockpiling, frozen waffle fans may have to leggo their Eggos for a few months amid a nationwide shortage of the popular breakfast food. picked by sidran32 2 weeks ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
"Physicists have been taking baby steps toward creating a full-fledged quantum computer faster and more powerful than any computer in existence, by making quantum processors capable of performing individual tasks. Now a group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed the world's first universal programmable quantum computer that can run any program that's pos... read full post picked by sidran32 2 weeks ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Dog trainers and animal behaviorists take issue with Cesar Millan's, of National Geographic's The Dog Whisperer, dog training methods, saying that they are old methods based on bad dog behavior research that have been proven to do more harm than good, and that newer positive reinforcement methods are much more effective and safer for both the dog and owner. picked by sidran32 3 weeks ago 16 comments edit related share science |
Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth culture. picked by sidran32 3 weeks ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Great statement here. Click for original source. picked by sidran32 3 weeks ago 3 comments edit related share arts |
Part one of an "animation triptych" for composer Hauschka. It's a wordless story moving solely based on the music and imagery. It's actually quite beautiful. 2 comments edit related share entertainmentParts 2 and 3 are in the comments picked by sidran32 3 weeks ago |
Trippish does it for you! Just enter in your start and end location along with your departure time, and it calculates a travel route, as well as weather forcasts at regular intervals between your starting point and destination. It even can automatically determine the best time to leave based on current forcasts. Quite handy for those cross-country Plimeets. picked by sidran32 1 month ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
Parody of "I'm On A Boat" consisting of current events (balloon boy). picked by sidran32 1 month ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Hilarious video picked by sidran32 1 month ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
UC Davis University Chorus, Alumni Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Boychoir perform Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," at the Mondavi Center on the campus of UC Davis. picked by sidran32 2 months ago 0 comments edit related share arts |
Two old ladies meet in the park picked by sidran32 2 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
"Look at this horse" picked by sidran32 2 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
An interesting piece about the child sponsorship programs and how they are doing more harm than good, and why. 0 comments edit related share world"Sponsorship of Third World Children has now become a major fund-raiser for voluntary agencies; it is a sure-fire way to attract money. But it is not such a good way to spend it. Peter Stalker argues that there are better ways to help." picked by sidran32 2 months ago |
"A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series. " 5 comments edit related share plime.com*Awesome and very well done* picked by sidran32 2 months ago |
Join Fr. George Coyne, the director of the Vatican Observatory in a very special presentation on the intersection of scientific method and religious faith in the pursuit of humanity's deepest and oldest questions. Presented by the Fleet Science Center. *Saw this one night on CNBC. It kept me up until 2 AM or thereabouts because it was just that good of a presentation and I didn't want to cut it ... read full post picked by sidran32 2 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
An online game where you are matched up with several other people and are given a paragraph that you must type. The faster you type, the faster you are to the finish in the race! You can even go against your friends. It's pretty fun. 8 comments edit related share plime.comInspired by lynxears' post, inspired by Bingo. picked by sidran32 3 months ago |
One-handed keyboard picked by sidran32 3 months ago 8 comments edit related share technology |
The world's oceans have been recorded to be the hottest in 130 years of record-keeping. "Water is warming in more places than usual, something that has not been seen in 50 years." 8 comments edit related share world*And people still believe that global warming isn't real?* picked by sidran32 3 months ago |
"What I want to believe based on emotions and what I should believe based on evidence does not always coincide. And after 99 monthly columns of exploring such topics (this is Opus 100), I conclude that I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe but because I want to know. I believe that the truth is out there. But how can we tell the difference between what we would like to be ... read full post picked by sidran32 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
A comprehensive list of usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses of known spammers. If you ever are in doubt, check the list, they probably are listed. picked by sidran32 4 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Of course no one will claim that scientists are never wrong about things. Some of the past theories that proved incorrect are familiar, some not. Some mistakes, though, actually led to significant scientific advances. Here's a list of 10 significant mistakes scientists have made in history picked by sidran32 4 months ago 12 comments edit related share science |
Much like humans, dolphins strive for efficiency in communication. 1 comments edit related share scienceStudies of dolphin body language show that they use the same principle that governs all of human speak: the law of brevity. picked by sidran32 4 months ago |
The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about making sure that we encourage people to move to modern browsers such as IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. 1 comments edit related share technology**Your Internet PSA for the day.** picked by sidran32 4 months ago |
The folks behind Google Chrome are quick to point out the sheer speed of their Javascript engine (the part of the browser that makes these post preview boxes work, or those fly-out menus on pages animate). This site is a showcase of this Javascript engine, with a lot of really cool programs written in pure Javascript. some of which never should be able to be written in Javascript, that push th... read full post picked by sidran32 4 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |