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. [...]

Lady spinning on escalator.

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.

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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 [...]

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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Looks like the sixth foot is a hoax. Well it could have been a plane crash of a plane full of animals.

How not to make bread

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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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Looks like another one washed up.

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A fifth foot has washed up in Vancouver. Once again it is in a shoe. Curiouser, and curiouser.

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