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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 [...]

Awesome video repost of some weird chemical reactions involving mercury.
Make: Online : Mercury “beating heart” demo video

This a neat little representation of the evolution of the earth done in sixty seconds. It’s takes a little bit at first to get an idea of what’s going on but once you realize that there is a counter in the lower left, and the voice is speaking the events happening at that time, [...]

Turns out those cell phone calls of yours aren’t so private anymore. Honestly, I know that this is quite the technical feat, but I’m surprised that it’s taken this long. Just goes to show you the level of difficulty involved in dissecting this kind of information.
Secret code protecting cellphone calls set loose %u2022 [...]

Madame Curies lab notebooks are classified as intermediate nuclear waste.

Firefox declared as the leading and most prominent browser in the market. This is a major step for the open source browser and it’s never ending war with it’s closest competitor IE.
Firefox 3.5 passes IE7 as most popular web browser