Hurricane Irene from Beginning to End

NASA/NOAA satellite photos combined in an awesome video--Hurricane Irene from August 21th through the 29th!

Watch video here!

Weird & Strange Food from Around the World

"Weird Food is a list of odd things that people eat. Every culture invents a food that is weird or disgusting to outsiders. These strange foods are cultural markers to show who's a member (insiders like it) and who's not a member (outsiders hate it.) Maybe a kid ate first it on a dare. They pass it on to the next generation. Then they nudge each other and laugh when outsiders gag."

Skinput Uses Your Skin as a User Interface

"Thanks to research done by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon, you may soon be able to use your very skin as a control interface for most any device!"
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This Artificial Intelligence stuff is getting out of hand

Had a depressing encounter with a web site today - see what I mean

"It's time to get things started!"

Hope your school year started with a bang!

Full video - http://youtu.be/oiMZa8flyYY
(and if you're not already a fan of OK Go, you really need to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w;
if you're not a fan of the Muppets, well, you just have my sympathy!)

The day Niagara Falls ran dry

It's taken 41 years, but a previously unseen set of photos of the mighty Niagara Falls reduced to nothing more than a barren cliff-top have finally surfaced.  Read more

The Origin of the Lowly Ampersand

More than you probably ever wanted to know:
https://www.adobe.com/type/topics/theampersand.html

Protect Your Treasures!

source: http://www.wondermark.com

Scientists see sunspots form... 60,000 km below the Sun's surface!

The Return of the Wild West?

Minecraft developer issues challenge to the death to settle lawsuit:
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-settle-this

What do you think? Is this the start of new and viable approach to settling legal disputes?

Welcome to the Funny Farm

Use the text box to enter your guesses, find the four hidden clues.

This is a collaborative exercise we'll use in class, but feel free to take a look now! "No single mortal will be able to solve this puzzle alone, so get a few friends and do it together."

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi

"The wise man's tools are analogies and puzzles. -- Royksopp"

Smithsonian WILD - 200K+ camera trap images

This site is designed to showcase some of the exciting research conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and its collaborators around the world, and to highlight the incredible diversity of wildlife that exists in a range of habitats across the globe.

The use of motion-triggered 'camera traps' has become an incredibly useful tool for scientists to answer an enormous range of conservation and ecological questions. <more>