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Some swearing at the end so be careful. I don’t know how they did this but it’s amazing.
Make: Online : Holographic head projection music video

Not really a large fan of the game, but a definitely a large fan of the technology and the interfaces that will come with these surfaces, or multi-touch table tops in general.
Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface

A great discussion from Make regarding the working theory of radio waves and antennae.
Make: Online : Seeing radio waves with a light bulb

Great article about an MIT professor and his work on artificial limbs. It explains well some of the problems that prosthesis currently have and really points out how they are largely unaddressed.
MIT’s Bionic Man: Accelerating the Integration of Body & Machine

A very good and lengthy article about the largest volcano in our solar system.
Image of the Day: Mar’s Olympus Mons -The Solar System’s Tallest Volcano

I’ve seen this around a few times and think it’s really a fantastic idea. As a nerd who loves machines that do unusual things, I think this is fantastic. I know that recycling paper is a notoriously difficult and costly thing to do so this is a pretty amazing engineering feat.
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Mixed feelings today at the release of the presidential budget.
On one hand there is a good amount of funding for environmental science, and science research funding. I’m happy more about the last than the first as that’s where the big breakthroughs come from.
On the other hand we’re not going back to the moon anytime [...]