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2012

Sunday, August 5, 2012

beautiful soup

—srikanth @ 23:01

Identify the art installation.

Cracked by: Supritha Maiya, KK and Manish Achuth

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Movable type, at the NY times.


im in ur base

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the company whose technology is being demonstrated here

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, KK and Siddarth Pai

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BrainGate - a sensor implanted in the brain being used to control a robot arm.


Friday, August 3, 2012

Lost in translation

—srikanth @ 23:59

The Sun, The Moon, The Southern Cross, and The Evening Star.

What?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Kaustubh Mhatre, Ananth, Manish Achuth, KK, Siddarth Pai and mankuTimma

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VLT - the Very Large Telescope in Chile


Friday, August 3, 2012

If you can understand this..

—devadutta @ 11:15

Something on display in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. What?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Subramania Rao, Rogi, Ananth, mankuTimma, Prasad, subramania, Supritha Maiya, Siddarth Pai, Logik, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, Kaustubh Mhatre, vinayaknp and Harsha

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Einstein’s original manuscript of the General Theory of Relativity


Thursday, August 2, 2012

Tom Cruise will have a 100 of these

—devadutta @ 23:17

Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA.

What is this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, KK, Supritha Maiya, Amarendra Kumar, Rogi, abhijith, Subramania Rao, Anjul, Mayukh Bose, Ananth, subramania, Sohail, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Logik, v.chandrashekar and Prasad

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Scientology E-Meter


Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Not the headphones

—devadutta @ 23:12

Guest question from %gqh% Bipin Banavalikar.

Identify this gentleman. Which term owes its name to him?

Think Physics.

Cracked by: Logik, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, vinayaknp, KK, Supritha Maiya, Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, abhijith, Subramania Rao, Ananth, subramania, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, v.chandrashekar and Kaustubh Mhatre

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The term “boson” owes its name to the pioneering work of the late Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.


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