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Airplanes use a lot of energy to get from place to place, but they also create a lot of it - especially, say, when they're slowing down and landing.…
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Ion Beams Shed Light on Forged ArtBest journal article title of the week? "Accelerated ion beams for art forensics." Frankly, they had me at "accelerated ion beams" - the beams could have…
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Most of the few routines we have in my house involve the thermostat - at night, as we all trek upstairs to bed, I turn the main floor thermostat down and…
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The Green Bay Packers are not going to repeat as Super Bowl Champions this year. That you surely already know. But it's not because Eli Manning and the…
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Max Zorn is a packing tape artist. No, I don't mean he's really good at taping up moving boxes, I mean he makes really intricate pieces of art by slicing…
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We all go to Wikipedia, which means we've all seen those banners. "Please Read: A Message from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales." Where the "face of…
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NHPR’s resident web trawler and afternoon host Brady Carlson is here plays Nostradamus for our Word of Mouth Futurama Edition, making some educated…
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Kim Jong Il's funeral was probably not intended to give birth to any memes, but when the hearse in the military procession featured a giant picture frame,…
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If you're a hockey fan, you know Don Cherry, or at the very least you've seen his amazing collection of suit jackets.Now, the remixers have revealed that…
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Part 1:Why Music Writing Matters in 2011In his introduction to an anthology of The Best Music Writing 2011, Alex Ross shares a selection of tweets…