June 25th, 2008
Video of a dorks instrument he created
Larry Cotton’s Screechophone from Mark Frauenfelder on Vimeo.
quote from Larry Cotton, the creator
I built this bizarre musical instrument–based loosely on the playing-card-in-the-bicycle-spokes principle–a while back, shot a quick video, then cannibalized it for parts. As you’ll see, the bicycle spokes were scaled down to a small white plastic gear. The card remained.
I called it a screechophone for reasons which will become obvious as you watch (and listen) to the video.
The whole thing was synced to accompanying music from a mini-CD through an ancient Commodore 64 computer, programmed in BASIC. A transparent disc printed only with black arcs spun with the CD and was read by a photocell.
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June 24th, 2008
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June 23rd, 2008
Not to be too ignorant and paranoid but please don’t turn it on. Please.
Most physicists believe the risk of a cataclysm lies in the realms of science fiction. But there have been fears about the possibility of a mini-black hole - produced in the collider - swelling so that it gobbles up the Earth.
and then the paranoia begins
The authors of the latest report, including theoretical physicist John Ellis, confirmed that black holes could be made by the collider. But they said: “If microscopic black holes were to be singly produced by colliding the quarks and gluons inside protons, they would also be able to decay into the same types of particles that produced them.”
The report added: “The expected lifetime [of a mini-black hole] would be very short.”
“expected”?!?! Um..
scary link(via BBC)
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June 20th, 2008
Looks like the idiots over at the National Institute of Standards and Technology were making a plutonium mojito and forgot to not wash the mint down the drain.
Traces of plutonium from the June 9 spill were found in a laboratory sink, where the radioactive chemical may have washed into the city’s sewer system, NIST announced last week.
link
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June 20th, 2008
This guy must have been thumbing through the Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual and making origami cranes when I was. On a related note check out this badass surgeon making a tiny origami crane.
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June 19th, 2008
Looks like the sixth foot is a hoax. Well it could have been a plane crash of a plane full of animals.
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June 18th, 2008
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June 18th, 2008
I don’t know which part of this story bothers me more, the fact that rabies is so widespread in the world, or the fact that this crazy self promoting scientist says that the scenario in I Am Legend, in which the virus matches what he has been creating, would be “Absolutely impossible”.
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June 18th, 2008
Looks like another one washed up.
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June 17th, 2008
A fifth foot has washed up in Vancouver. Once again it is in a shoe. Curiouser, and curiouser.
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