Three kinds of what?
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Taxons :) Zombie taxons, lazarus taxons, and elvis taxons - names given to taxons that have vague/incomplete ancestries :)
Simple question. Identify.
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Tangram
Identify.
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Hidetsugu Yagi, holding up a Yagi-Uda antenna.
Guest Question from udupendra %gqh%. Thanks saar!
What pop-culture icon of the 1980s is this the patent diagram of?
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Simon game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%28game%29
%gqh% krudebox had sent us a very similar question a few days ago but we had not seen it. So, we are marking this question as his contribution.
Identify the “game”
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KumaWar’s game to assassinate Bin Laden.
Identify this late-19th-century/early-20th-century inventor. He created some famous cameras, steganography techniques and also what some call the first electronic ‘search engine’ for searching for documents.
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This term has its origins in an old kind of memory (pictured below). The term remains popular in programming (well, debugging) circles with a very similar meaning to how it originated, although the technology has moved on. (Variants of the term are often used, however, to mean things that have nothing to do at all about the origin, especially among management types). What term?
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‘Core Dump’. Core dumps would dump the state of ferrite core memory (pic) to allow programmers to debug causes for crash.
What’s the connection? Don’t look too deep.
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Jonathon Coulton singing ‘Still Alive’ the end credits song of Portal, and Lisa Miskovsky’s official music video of her song ‘Still Alive’, used in the game Mirror’s Edge. Two wonderful tracks in two amazing games, coincidentally sharing the same name!
Geek overload in this one. Name the set -
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Maia Weinstock’s Scitweeps - set of lego minifigs of science personalities with twitter accounts :)
Famous video, famous experiment. What did this experiment confirm?
Yep, the audio is muted out.
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The famous footage of the Apollo 15 astronaut that dropped a hammer & feather on the moon to prove Galileo’s theory that in the absence of atmosphere, objects will fall at the same rate regardless of mass. – Quoting Manish
