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P.S: List is not exhaustive. There cannot possibly be an exhaustive list.
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Logarithmic spiral. They all are log spirals.
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Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown, from Back to the Future, was inspired by Leopold Stokowski (left) and Albert Einstein.
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
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.
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Sid Meier(2) created an orchestra composer game called “CPU bach” (1), a play on CPE Bach (3).
Plaintext question for today.
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.
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.
Bayeux Tapestry showing the king begin told of what?
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Halley’s Comet!
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.
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.