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July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Alarm is sounding, Run! Run! Run!

—devadutta @ 13:09

Identify this 2005 Ig Nobel Prize winner. She invented something very (in)famous while at the MIT Media Lab.

Cracked by: Logik, Rogi, Manish Achuth, godzilla101, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, Supritha Maiya, Sujoy, Sumanth Patlolla, bhargava, Jayaprakash B R, Jay, Ananth, Santanu Bhattacharjee and Siddarth Pai

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Gauri Nanda, who invented Clocky


Monday, July 30, 2012

Anti-matter is funny?

—devadutta @ 11:21

This actually happened. Recent Physics breakthrough was announced/explained with slides done in Comic Sans. People and are now rallying to rename Comic Sans to something else in Windows 8. What?

Cracked by: Logik, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, Sujoy, Supritha Maiya, bhargava, Jayaprakash B R, Ananth and Siddarth Pai

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Comic Cerns


Sunday, July 29, 2012

Perfect happiness

—devadutta @ 14:36

Awesome Question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

This man took one of the most popular photographs ever. Almost everyone who has used a computer has seen it. Who is he? What is blocked out?

Cracked by: Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, Aditya, vinayaknp, godzilla101, bhargava, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, Aditya Prabhu, Logik, abhijith, Supritha Maiya and Ananth

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Just 2MP?

—devadutta @ 14:28

Where can you find this camera? People are surprised that this is just a 2MP camera.

Cracked by: Siddarth Pai, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, bhargava, Logik, abhijith, Supritha Maiya, Ananth and Sujoy

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Curiosity


Friday, July 27, 2012

Before Breakfast

—devadutta @ 11:44

Guest question from %gqh% Dibyo after a long time!

Who is this?

This is supposedly a very rare photo.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, KK, Dibyo, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma and Siddarth Pai

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Matt Inman of the oatmeal.


Thursday, July 26, 2012

Why so curious?

—devadutta @ 11:41

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is the significance of this image?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, vinayaknp, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, chetana, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, KK, Dibyo, mankuTimma, Supritha Maiya, Rajiv Rai, Siddarth Pai and Anjul

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First Image sent by Curiosity.


Thursday, July 26, 2012

The mad scientist tweets again!

—srikanth @ 00:59

The twitter issue should be fixed now. If you all see this going down again, please do let us know - email us at [email protected] or tweet @boiledbeans!


Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Wrong Spelling for default answer

—devadutta @ 12:22

This professor accidentally (re)named a company after getting their spelling wrong. Who is he, which company and where did he get the spelling wrong. AutoRaja will be happy with company name.

Cracked by: Anjul, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, Ananth, mankuTimma, KK, manas, Sumanth Patlolla, vishwanath, Rogi and Jinz

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David Cheriton, who wrote a $100,000 check for “Google” instead of “Googol”


Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Very Beautiful

—devadutta @ 11:07

Which “unit of measurement” is named after her?

KK, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, Ananth, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya, Rogi, daniel and jinz


Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Very important research

—devadutta @ 11:03

What is this paper, authored by hundreds of physicists about?

Cracked by: KK, Shrey Goyal, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya and Rogi

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Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of Earth