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Make has some information on some German researchers who have made steel velcro. I wonder if I can get some for shoe laces.
Make: Online : Steel ‘Velcro’

The Wildlife Conservation Society has an awesome Google maps overlay of Manhattan in 1609. It’s interesting in a number of respects. You can find out what flora and fauna were around in the area at the time. Also it seems to cover the lower parts of Manhattan which I thought were mostly [...]

There seem to be a large number of quality science videos coming out. Here’s another courtesy of Bad Astronomy where the current theories on the origin of the universe are explained.
Big Bang Theory, the video (but not that one) | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Boing Boing has a really interesting video with David Attenborough about carnivorous pitcher plants. These plants are so large that it’s said they have been known to consume small rodents. The best part about this video is a visually stunning surreal time lapse segment showing how the plant constructs the pitchers.
Video: giant carnivorous [...]

Here’s an interesting video found via Make. It shows work done on the vision system of an ASIMO robot to detect and avoid moving obstacles in it’s environment. It’s amazing to watch this robot navigate and calculate trajectories completely on the fly.
Make: Online : ASIMO avoids moving obstacles
At this rate the [...]

Phil Plait has up today a very well done piece of educational video about the nature of light. Apparently there is going to be a series of these, if they’re all this well done that should be great.
Shine a light | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Also known as how to make your head hurt.
Visualizing up to ten dimensions – Boing Boing
Now if you understood that you’re in the wrong business. If you don’t have a headache you didn’t pay close enough attention.

Make has a post about a series of videos that zoom into objects to the atomic level. MAKE: Blog: Zoom into steel (to the atomic level!)

Pretty weird.

Hologram Google Earth is an amazing prototype computer display. Forget about multi-touch if this is a real display it will blow that away. Amazing video.