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WSJ: Flying Car Maker Gets Regulatory Clearance.
Hmm. I don’t know. That looks too much like a small airplane to me. A flying car is supposed to be a car that can fly, not a “roadable aircraft”. It’s 2011, already! Why can’t it be like these flying cars?
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Wired: Ads implant false memories.
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Former global warming alarmist says carbon warming too minor to worry about.
And he’s a climate scientist, too.
Finally, we can disagree with Al Gore without being “denialists”. I can live with that…
Via HotAir.
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You can’t lose credibility when you don’t have any, so I guess they thought it was worth the shot…
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Study: Botox may deaden the ability to empathize (via Insty).
John Kerry won’t get off so easily. He was rather apathetic towards his brothers in arms way before Botox was ever discovered…and that’s an understatement…
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But not quite extinct yet: Judge puts California’s job-killing greenhouse gas law on hold.
Let’s see how it does on appeal…
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UPDATE: Related: video of Discovery’s launch from a passenger jet. Very cool…
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Learn Chinese and watch Red Dawn, just in case…
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ToplessRobot: Making a Princess Leia hologram at MIT…barely.
Plus, a 14-part Star Wars documentary you don’t want to miss, free on YouTube.
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Did you know that European carbon credit markets have been closed since January 19 due to a huge fraud scheme which ripped off carbon traders by the millions of Euros?
I guess it’s only fair, given that carbon traders seem increasingly engaged in a fraudulent scheme of their own…
UPDATE: Related: the long list of states affected by this week’s winter storm. Chilling out from New Mexico to Maine!
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Any superheroes out there looking for an arch-enemy? Consider this teenage evil genius.
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Better for the consumers of Jalapeño poppers, that is…
That’s not me. I buy peppers for my salsa recipe.
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CNN: Snow present in 49 of the 50 U.S. states.
Even Hawaii has snow!
Dude, where’s my global warming?
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Anne Thompson explains in Popular Mechanics.
Anne has her own movie blog, here. Whether your interest lies with indie, foreign or Hollywood studio pictures, she’s got’em covered.
She’s also a Tisch School of the Arts grad, like me. So you know she knows her stuff…
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Researcher discovers new lizard species…on restaurant menu.
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File under ‘Research We Probably Don’t Need’, but cool to watch nonetheless…
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A 5-ft tall penguin once roamed the earth.
Proof that there’s a Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch for almost every topic:
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Gizmodo: “The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of…an extremely* unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query.”
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Berman Post: Obama’s immigration speech elicits “chills” and “tingles” from two MSNBC reporters.
This is the result of either ignorance, or bias, or both…
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July 1962: U.S. detonates nuke in outer space: “The hydrogen bomb code-named ‘Starfish Prime’ set off on July 9 produced an artificial extension of the Van Allen belts visible across the Pacific Ocean.”
NPR has video here, some of which was compiled by director Peter Kuran for his documentary Nukes in Space
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UPDATE: Bad link! Just fixed. Sorry about that.
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Looks like it should hold a lot of data, but looks can be deceiving.
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Cory Doctorow on Mickey’s methamphetamine connection.
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Meet Watson, a “question answering” machine from IBM, “able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution…and respond with a precise, factual answer.”
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University of Pittsburgh Researcher says his filter separated oil from water in Gulf of Mexico tests:
He’s submitted his idea to the companies and government agencies coordinating the clean-up. Hopefully he’ll fare better than the Dutch government or Packgen.
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…at DailyDeadBirds.com.
Sad. Bad day for sea mammals today…
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“Scientists are developing robots which can ‘dock’ with each other and fly together in a swarm.”
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Live Science: French psychologists and psychiatrists conclude Darth Vader is “an obvious candidate for borderline personality disorder”.
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But at least a real, working hoverboard exists (like in Back to the Future, Part 2…almost) .
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NYT: U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits.
Journalism is hard and – predictably – the Times almost gets this story right. It’s a nice investigative piece, but you have to read between the lines to get to the real story.
They told me that if I voted for McCain our government would sell out the environment to Big Oil. And they were right!™
All rubes, please report to the front desk for an important message…
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Captured by the camera of Sean Stiegemeier.
Takes a little bit to get started once you press “play”, but it’s worth the wait. Awesome sight.
Thanks to Dr. Fiancee for the tip. She blogs about national security and defense news here.
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…avoid cutting humans with knives.
Let’s hope that technology never fails with this type of robot.
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LAT: The Road to Area 51.
Great piece on the supersecret air base that officially doesn’t exist.
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New York grad student develops methods to defeat facial recognition systems.
Hey, if it’s already used at airports – and is coming to your favorite watering hole – might as well prepare now.
And if it makes for a more cyberpunk-looking society, so be it. I’m not sure that means we all have to look like dancers in an early 80′s music video, though. I think this face paint scheme would be more my style.
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Cinematical has the list.
