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“Significant” water on the moon

Some sites are talking about a press conference being set up on Thursday to talk about what they are calling “Evidence of Water on the Moon – Lots of It”. If you’re not a space geek, let me back up a second since NASA isn’t even on most people’s mind these days and fill youContinue reading ““Significant” water on the moon”

Nanogirls

This is just … yeah. See scientists can have fun! You know you were just thinking “I like it when the girls stop by. To my lab.” Come on, you know you were.

The surprising science of motivation

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

Do you want to date my avatar?

The Guild just gets better by the minute:

Criss Angel Augmented Reality Game

This is a promo for the game, but I love the edginess of it. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6000129&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=e60000&fullscreen=1 Criss Angel Augmented Reality Game from Circ.us on Vimeo.

Craig Ferguson “figures it out”

Thanks to @julie_Thorn for this one:

Apparently Gaylord Focker has started his own business

The Launch Pad: Successful NASA Program in Jeopardy!

This afternoon (June 24, 2009) at 2:30pm Eastern Time, the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the United States Senate’s Appropriations Committee will be marking up the FY 2010 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. For those of you feeling lost by that sentence, the plain English translation is: this afternoon,Continue reading “The Launch Pad: Successful NASA Program in Jeopardy!”

We like to move

My wife and I are creative people. We’re creatively different (you might say opposite) but often known as people with the ideas. I didn’t say “all the good ideas”, just “ideas”. We like to change. Your brain is wired to recognize patterns. It’s very very good at it. The lazy thing for your brain toContinue reading “We like to move”

Remember the show “V” from the 80’s? Yeah, it’s back.

As we all know, any aliens we encounter will want to eat us which makes for good SciFi. Was that Elizabeth Mitchell I saw? Sweet.