5-year-old Danny Kitchen got permission from his parents to play Zombie vs. Ninja on the family iPad. But within about 10 minutes of playing, Danny had incurred about $2,550 of charges on his mom’s credit card.
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There it was, completely nondescript. Nobody could ever tell what the room was used for more than half a century ago. But then I thought that that sounded apt; after all, nobody was supposed to know in the first place what went on in there. To that extent it perfectly served its intended purpose. An unexceptional but heavy iron gate right next to it probably was the only object that possibly enforced the gravity of the situation.
The March air in Santa Fe was crisp and characteristically clear. I looked around and saw the usual tourists … Read More → "Contemplating the secret portal that led to the atomic bomb"
Artist Klari Reis will be posting a new Petri dish painting every day this year at The Daily Dish 2013. According to Reis’Facebook page, the paintings are created using reflective epoxy polymer and are an attempt to “explore our complex relationship with today’s biotechnological industry.”
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Climate change will make commercial shipping possible from North America to Russia or Asia over the North Pole by the middle of the century, a new study says.
Two researchers at the University of California ran seven different climate models simulating two classes of vessels to see if they could make a relatively ice-free passage through the Arctic Ocean. In each case, the sea routes are sufficiently clear after 2049, they say.
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A team of researchers is making the best of a bad situation and trying to use the lasting effects of radiation at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor to help environmental conservation efforts. In the years since the meltdown, marine biologists have found traces of radiation from the meltdown in bluefin tuna as far afield as California. That radiation, though, could help marine biologists map the ill-understood migration routes of the tuna. That better understanding … Read More → "Radiation from Fukushima could help solve the mystery of Bluefin Tuna migration"
NASA has discovered that there was a 3rd radiation belt hanging around Earth. The discovery was made by two Van Allen space probes that were made specifically to analyze Earth’s radiation belts. The Van Allen probes were named after James Van Allen, who was the the first to discover the radiation belts 55 years ago in 1958. The probes are designed identically and provide scientists with a deeper insight on how … Read More → "NASA discovers new radiation belt around Earth"
Kentucky Route Zero: Part I, developed by Cardboard Computer for PC, Mac and Linux, is an interactive screenplay, an illustrated series of scenes occasionally stirred by unexpectedly moving things. It’s a point-and-click adventure game, but with creepy explorations of light and sound and Southern Gothic themes, and without any hidden on-screen objects to find.
There are lots of hidden things tucked away in Route Zero‘s highways and far-flung … Read More → "Kentucky Route Zero: lost in a surreal, terrifying American South"
Want to know what this thing is? Here’s a hint: it’s a miniature inchworm. And it’s quite possibly the fastest miniature inchworm robot in the world, even though it uses just one single motor.
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Looking for a more effective solution to the all-too-common wobbly table dilemma than a folded up bit of cardboard or piece of rubber under the leg, University of Virginia physicist Lou Bloomfield created a new type of silicone rubber called Vistik – it’s malleable enough to take on any shape when pressed, but is still resilient enough to offer support, as it graduallystarts to return to its … Read More → "New type of silicone exhibits both viscous and elastic properties"
One of the two rats in the above picture isn’t really a rat. One of the two rats in the above picture is, in fact, a robot. Look closely and you can just barely figure it out. Meanwhile, the rat that isn’t a robot is seriously depressed, because that’s what this robot specializes in: rat depression.
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