“We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway,” said Roy Betts, a spokesman (for the USPS). Mr. Betts did say, however, that the post office regrets the error and is “re-examining our processes to prevent this situation from happening in the future.” – from the NY Times article</ … Read More → "USPS accidentally issues Las Vegas Statue of Liberty stamp"
“The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries. It has survived the Spanish conquest, seen off wars, revolutions, famines and floods. But now, like so many other indigenous languages, it’s at risk of extinction.
There are just two people left who can speak it fluently – but they refuse to talk to each other.”
Read the article here in the Guardian UK
… Read More → "The last two speakers of a dying language won’t speak to each other"“Intel Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. today introduced a new, finer 20-nanometer (nm) process technology for manufacturing NAND flash memory. The new 20nm process produces an 8-gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash device, providing a high-capacity, small form factor storage option for saving music, video, books and other data on smartphones, tablets and computing solutions such as solid-state drives (SSDs).”
… Read More → "Intel and Micron announce 20nm NAND Flash process"
“Stephen Rand, a researcher and proffessor at the University of Michigan may have just casually overthrown 100 years of physics with his team’s new approach to harnessing solar energy.”
Have a bunch of time on your hands and about $2,500? Why not build yourself a laser cutter?
via Hackaday
… Read More → "Save a bunch of cash by building your own laser cutter"“Later this year, Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson plans to launch a series of five expeditions to boldly go where no one has gone before. And Branson being Branson, he’s going to do it in style.” read more at Singularity Hub
… Read More → "Richard Branson to pilot a submarine to the deepest parts of the ocean"
In Texas, which already has some of the nation’s highest speed limits, the state House last week passed a bill allowing a speed limit of 85 mph on some highways, and a similar bill is being considered in the Senate. Rhett Allain over at Wired explores the physics of high speed crashes at 75mph and 85mph.
Image: Laura Domela
… Read More → "The physics of a high speed crash: 75mph vs. 85mph"This cool video illustrates some of the mechanisms and geometrical solids discussed in the book How Round is Your Circle? by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin.
