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Female Wolf Spider With Babies On Her Back

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Some people think this is a cute example of an animal raising its young, others think it is creepy as shit. I fall into the latter category.


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Curiosity: NASA’s Epic New Mars Rover

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 2:08 am

Mars rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity” were successful beyond NASA’s wildest dreams. Now they’re building a new, nuclear-powered Mini Cooper-sized rover to be lowered onto Mars by a hovering drop ship in 2013. Meet “Curiosity,” the new Mars Science Laboratory. Really interesting video showing how the new rover will work.


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Persistence Hunting in the Kalahari Desert

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 9:56 am

This morning I was reading about the unique evolutionary advantages that humans possess over other animals. While we are not the fastest animals by a longshot, humans are actually the best suited distance runners on the planet. Running on two feet is much more efficient than four. And running on two feet allows us to “slow breathe” — four legged animals must take a breath with every step when running because their diaphragms are connected directly to their spines. The fact that we have sweat glands and skin is also essential, because we are able to keep out bodies cool much more efficiently than animals with fur. Humans are one of the only animals on earth that could handle running a 26 mile marathon.

Anyway, I stumbled upon this amazing David Attenborough video that perfectly demonstrates humans’ evolutionary advantages:


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TECHNO JEEP

Posted by Sean Brogan on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 4:08 pm

As a former Cherokee owner, I can attest that this happens all the time.


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Ear Wax Removal

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 3:42 pm

When I was in China, there was a guy in the park who did this from a little cart for a few bucks. My friend had it done, and said that he could suddenly “hear the entire world.” I stumbled across this video today and found it damn fascinating.


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LEGO robot sudoku solver

Posted by Harrison Flatau on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 11:43 am

First the robots solve our sudokus and then they enslave us. Mark my words.


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iPad Humor

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 6:30 pm

Apple’s latest gadget has been the butt of a lot of humor the last few days…most of it is not funny at all, but I felt compelled to post this for some reason. Probably to be topical. Anyway, watch the College Humor video below (fourth one down) — that really nails why the other three videos are not funny. Also, these stupid Hitler videos have totally jumped the shark. I suspect this is the last one I will ever post.

Pee-wee Gets An iPad!

Hitler Responds to iPad

HELLO!

The iPad is a Comedy Gold Mine – College Humor


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Neuroscience and Free Will

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 6:00 am

How much of your conscious decisions do you actually control? Or is your brain just chemically reacting to environmental stimuli, and all of your “thoughts” and “decisions” are just part of nature’s grand domino effect?

In this clip, Marcus Du Sautoy (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford) participates in an experiment conducted by John-Dylan Haynes (Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) that attempts to find the neurological basis for decision making. The results are really quite shocking.