According to the National Science Foundation, Cameras may be taking on new forms to replicate the function of a human eye: “Instead of using a flat microchip as the light sensor for their new camera, a team of engineers has developed a sensor that is a flexible mesh of wire-connected pixels. The mesh is [...]
If you’ve read this blog at all, you’ve probably noticed that ping pong has gotten to be a Big Deal around the office of the one-six-oh. With this explosion in popularity, certain terminology has emerged, such as: Krickstein: 1) (verb) to blame an outside object or force for one’s own failure 2) (noun) a person [...]
RadioLab.org RadioLab is a “science” podcast from WNYC hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. RadioLab is set up somewhat like This American Life, with each episode about a general topic and smaller vignettes that explore said topic. Some episodes include big-ideas like “Who Am I?”, “Time”, “Pop Music”, and my favorite, “Emergence.” It’s good [...]
I found this while trying to recover from Friday’s boat party, it didn’t really help, but it was entertaining. Leonard Nimoy singing his hit “Ballad of Bilbo Baggins,” from his 1968 album The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy.
On Wednesday night bidding ended on eBay for a pair of Levi’s from the 1890′s. They were found in a mine in the Mojave Desert. Apparently these jeans were in pretty good condition, but I can’t imagine the person who bought these for $36,099 is really going to wear them out partying.
In my adolescence I aspired to be a skater. Drawn to the skate culture of the mid and late 80′s (and by the fact that the skaters in my neighborhood were the so-called bad kids) it was something that I spent many summers pursuing but admittedly was never any good at. It was during that [...]