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Google is a hint

—devadutta @ November 27, 2010

Connect

P.S: List is not exhaustive. There cannot possibly be an exhaustive list.

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Logarithmic spiral. They all are log spirals.


Don't mess with the Libyans.

—srikanth @ November 26, 2010

** + ** = ?

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Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown, from Back to the Future, was inspired by Leopold Stokowski (left) and Albert Einstein.


Original sin?

—srikanth @ November 25, 2010

What’s the blacked out word? And what’s the story?

PS: Is this what you call irony? Not sure. I always get confused. I’d call it satire. I’d probably be wrong. Oh well.

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“Hackers”. The website for the movie hackers was, um, hacked by “real” hackers. http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/hack/doodle.html


Seemingly impossible.

—srikanth @ November 24, 2010

Very borderline geeky…

This picture was taken during the opening of the institute of physics at the University of Lund in Sweden in 1951. What are these two people looking at?

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Wolfgang Pauli and Neils Bohr, deeply inspecting a Tippe Top. The toy is know to have been of interest to Bohr.


Game overture.

—srikanth @ November 23, 2010

Connect -

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Sid Meier(2) created an orchestra composer game called “CPU bach” (1), a play on CPE Bach (3).


Plug me in...

—srikanth @ November 21, 2010

Plaintext question for today.

  1. Created in 1968. Brought life back into a dying brand.
  2. They are made from 6 individual parts of ABS.
  3. Started with a cop, a fireman, a nurse, and astronauts.
  4. The most expensive one ever was made of gold, and was a model of C3P0
  5. Globally, 3.9 are sold per second

What am I talking about?

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Edit: It should be 1978, and not 1968. My bad. Points given to anyone who mentioned Lego.


Understanding the depth of the situation ;)

—devadutta @ November 20, 2010

Sitter.

Identify and connect 1 to the point A in 2

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Microsoft’s Kinect was originally codenamed “Project Natal” after the city Natal.


You no goeth.

—devadutta @ November 19, 2010

Bayeux Tapestry showing the king begin told of what?

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Halley’s Comet!


Unify

—srikanth @ November 18, 2010

In one word, what connects:

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PZ Myers’s famous blog is named Pharyngula after his “favourite” stage of an embryo’s development. At the Pharyngula stage, almost all animal embryos look the same.


It works, #*%@#*!

—devadutta @ November 17, 2010

Explain how the “thing” is defying gravity in the copper tube.

Video Link for the flash challenged.

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Eddy currents induced by the magnet in the copper tube creates a magnetic field which in turn slows it down. Science is awesome.