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If you consider yourself a geek, or aspire to the honor of geekhood, here’s an essential checklist of must-have geek skills. The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness.
64 Things Every Geek Should Know « Caintech.co.uk
Quantum potentiality of the Manifested Self
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20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools
You might think your HMO plan is scary, but at least it doesn't use these vintage surgical instruments...hopefully.
1. Anthropomimetic Machines No matter how closely a robot resembles a human on the outside, if you crack it open, the jumble of wires is unlikely to bear much resemblance to our insides.
10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2010
7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics
The universe is full of weird substances like liquid metal and whatever preservative keeps Larry King alive. But mankind isn't happy to accept the weirdness of nature when we can create our own abominations of science that, due to the miracle of technology, spit in nature's face and call it retarded. That's why we came up with...Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries. We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged.
11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks
Robot Designed to Help Earth Plants Grow on Mars
Images via Tuvie Robot Will Help Colonize Mars After We've Ruined Earth Well, it's good to know that in the event that our planet collapses under the weight of climate change , overpopulation , a water crisis, nuclear holocaust or whatever, there are designers out there already preparing for life on Mars.
Earth's True Shape Revealed for 1st Time
After two years in orbit, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is nearing the end of its planned life span in February, producing the most accurate map ever of the so-called geoid -- an Earth-encompassing spirit level and global reference surface. An unused supply of xeon fuel will allow the mission to be extended until at least the end of 2012. Markedly different from a simple sphere or ellipsoid, the geoid is the mathematically 'true' shape of Earth.
21st Century Waves » Kepler, Watson, and Gott Point to the Rare Earth Hypothesis
The Drake Equation was humanity’s first serious attempt to think systematically about advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our Galaxy.