*UPDATED to repair the broken links. Click away!
This video is called "Isaac Newton v Rube Goldberg", but you'll have to watch it to find out why.
Here's your grab bag of geek for the week:
- I've been day dreaming all week about traveling to these STUNNING places on Earth that look fake but are actually real.
- Ways nature could kill us. Highlights include volcanoes, fungi, radiation, and landslides.
- Scientists have created fake feces, a "super-probiotic" named RePOOPulate, for people with a hard-to-treat bacterial infection in their intestines. Also, RePOOPulate is really fun to say.
- Bored with Pandora and Spotify? Listen to whales instead on this live station from Hawaii. I was hooked immediately.
- Czech scientists find brown-eyed faces are deemed more trustworthy than blue-eyed ones based not on eye color alone, but on facial morphology qualities that appear linked to brown eyes.
- New species of flying frog discovered near Ho Chi Min City. I wonder if it can fly across the DMZ…?
- Researchers suggest Dinosaur Stampede National Monument in Queensland, Australia should be renamed Swimming Dinosaur National Monument based on a new theory that fossilized tracks may be a record of dinos crossing a river instead of fleeing a predator.
- A recent study of lizards shows that they aren't such great jumpers when they leap off a diving-board-esque flexible surface. In fact, they fall on their face. Bonus: the published paper is entitled "Total Recoil". [VIDEO]
- Fascinating article on how Intel helps Stephen Hawking communicate. The renown physicist can only compose his thoughts at one word per minute by twitching a muscle in his cheek, but Intel is working on a full facial software program that would allow him to also use his mouth and eyebrow muscles.
Geek you later. @Summer_Ash





there's a mess up in the link for the Stunning places. Need to remove the "br" and slash a html code.
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I'm thinking you already know this, but the DMZ is in Korea, not Vietnam.
I'm a geography geek ...
Vietnam had a DMZ until the mid 1970s.
Crackhead, your past tense is correct. That all ended in Vietnam 37 years before this frog was discovered.
Ho Che Min is not in Korea if we are discussing the version of reality that I live in.
Knight to queens pawn 4.
Your move.
"Crackhead" isn't just a nickname, is it? My whole point was that Ho Chi Min City is not in Korea.
I think Scientific American had the best headline about the RePOOPulate story.
Bunch of bad links.
One of the editing steps inserted <br \> into each of the links (new line).
Those characters are prohibited in links (they won't work like that). Email software sometimes inserts these characters (part of the MIME specification).
The links can be corrected by editing the links and removing "& gt ; br \ & lt ;" from each one by using "paste special" with something like MS Word to edit the link code. It is possible to use "XHTML Mode" to do that if you know how to edit a web page directly.
Only alphanumerics, special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters ":@/?=" are allowed in links.
Didn't have enough time to edit them all.
You only missed the last one.
Thanks.
I've been day dreaming all week about traveling to these STUNNING places on Earth that look fake but are actually real.
Good Link: http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/01/14/25-places-that-look-not-normal-but-are-actually-real/
Bad Link: http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/01/14/25-places-that-look-not-nor%3Cbr%20%3E%3C/a%3E%20mal-but-are-actually-real/
Meet a real geek, and remember that if it is not tested it will not work, that's a rule.
Geek you later. @Summer_Ash
View source: The string below occurs 10 times it generates the following string in the links
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These befoul the section:
Here's your grab bag of geek for the week:
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2 out of 11 links work.
remove the 22 characters in the failed link window
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Fixed them all?
Here's your grab bag of geek for the week:
on Earth that look fake but are actually real.
landslides.
from Hawaii. I was hooked immediately.
Loved the Rube Goldberg.
I could watch those for hours!