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Here is a great time lapse that is just jaw dropping.

Incredibly, impossibly beautiful time lapse video | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Due to lack of fund the Allen telescope array is shutting down.  Let’s hope it’s only temporary.

SETI project on hiatus

(Via kottke.org.)

A great little art piece about how some very nice hourglasses are made.

(Via Kottke)

Here’s a synthesizer that someone made that follows some rules like those of conways game of life.  Very fun to play with.

Otomata: “Home Projects/Lab Music About Otomata

This guys builds a quad delta robot arm system that can “pick and place” items from an assembly line.  He does this all from Lego.  Awesome work.

Check Your “Tax Receipt” To See Where Your Money Is Going: “

Finally you can see a break down of where all your tax dollars are going.  Now if only I could edit this and put that money spent on defense to being spent on NASA.

What do you think about the disbursement of your tax dollars? Tell us in the comments.

(Via Consumerist.)

Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance: “

We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see them through the spirit of Hungarian folk dance. In a series of four videos (so far), folks at Sapientia University in Romania demonstrate how different sorting algorithms work with numbered people dancing around and arranging themselves from least to greatest.

See them in action in the video below. This one is for Bubble-sort. They move with such zest.

[Video Link via @shancarter & Boing Boing]

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(Via FlowingData.)

Our robot masters are one more robot closer to existing. What makes this so interesting to me is it’s terrain detection. To do this in such a small package is quite an impressive feat as well. Although I don’t know that this doesn’t connect wirelessly to a more complicated system. Very impressive either way.

Make: Online : LittleDog robot learns how to traverse rough terrain

Make has an interesting short film that visualizes the relationship of mathematics to nature. Mostly it deals with the golden ratio, but the score is haunting and the visual stunning.

Make: Online : Nature by Numbers: linking math to nature

A great introduction to producing various graph plots in R.

Revolutions: Video: Hadley Wickham gives a short course on graphics with R