Science Etcetera, Venusday 20090227

Posted on 27th February 2009 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera

Beautiful slideshow presentation of searching for extremophiles in Russia.

Extremophiles in Russia

The Leo Ring is a cloud of gas orbiting two galaxies in the constellation Leo, devoid of dark matter and heavy elements, but still producing stars.

Photos of interesting species found at both poles.

Are we programmed for distraction?

Evolving the Mona Lisa.

Evolving Mona Lisa

An apple a day keeps the breast cancer away?

MAKE Magazine has coverage of science kits for kids like TEDCO Toys, My first lab, Kristal, and ScienceWiz.

Siftables and Sixth Sense are new methods of interfacing with computers that could easily make keyboards obsolete (video demos at the link).

The dropping ball illusion

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1. The Mona Lisa thing is very cool. It reminds me of the iterative algorithms in Breve Simulation Environ : http://www.spiderland.org/

   There are a few neat ones that iterate a four jointed set of rectangular cubes finding the right kinematics to make it get up and move, it’s pretty cool.

   I forget why I looked it up, but I think it was used in one of the computer bot war competitions.

   Comment by John — February 27, 2009 @ 2:35 am

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