Want to know the best thing about union jobs?
It’s the training videos. Thanks to D. Plotkin for the link.
It’s the training videos. Thanks to D. Plotkin for the link.
[flashvideo file=”flash_video/Cut_Paste.flv” /] How do you find out who are the sharpest, most creative designers in the world? With a good, old-fashioned, graphic design battle, of course. The 2009 Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament pitted the best graphic designers against one another in a competition like no other. Armed with state-of-the art computers, designers … Read more
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully demonstrated a technique for fabricating a better battery using a genetically engineered virus. They announced their technique for the battery earlier this month, maintaining that it allows them to use a much wider variety of materials for potentially higher-capacity, rechargeable batteries. The interdisciplinary team of MIT scientists … Read more
At a certain time of day, specifically, a little bit before 9 AM, if you exit onto the street at the Monroe stop on the Red Line in the Loop, you’ll see that the light reflected off the shiny glass building on the west side of the street illuminating the buildings on the east side … Read more
Famous philosopher David Chalmers has announced the public availability of Philpapers.org, a huge online repository of philosophical journals and resources from all over the web. New issues of more than 200 journals, on a huge variety of subjects. Browse around through their categories and see what I mean! Found via PhilosophyNow, via monochrom.
Ok, after just about EVERYBODY I know pestered me about Twitter, I finally broke down and joined, mostly to follow people that might give me tips for stories. If you follow me, I’ll follow you. @ian_monroe
Taken this evening at about 5:30 p.m., here.
Wow, this is awesome. Some folks in England invented a robot that does science — from hypothesis, to testing, to conclusion — and it actually generated new knowledge autonomously! Outstanding. “The scientists at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge designed Adam to carry out each stage of the scientific process automatically without the need … Read more
Check out this beautiful gallery of obsolete gadgets and tech from DarkRoastedBlend.com I particularly love the mad scientist cold-war era Russian stuff. Found via BoingBoing Gadgets.