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Blue Virginia:: Howard Dean, DFA Launch Purple to Blue Project, Target 5 Districts in Virginia for 2013

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Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

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Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Style Dresser/Chest

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A Green Affair: I thought I would share this project with you. It’s taken us a while...

agreenaffair:

I thought I would share this project with you. It’s taken us a while to complete, not because it’s difficult, but because it took us a while to source the parts needed (plus we’re slow and picky). We’ve needed bar stools for almost a year now and were on the lookout for a while, but…


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Forget Graphene, Silicene Is Here to Blow Your Mind | Gizmodo

smarterplanet:

Remember how graphene, the single-atom thick layer of carbon was so slick it was going to change everything? Well it looks like silicene is here to steal the spotlight. Researchers have just made the first sheet of single-atom thick silicon.

Silicene has been a work in progress for years, but they think they’ve finally got it down now, and it represents a tremendous breakthrough. Graphene is awesome, but it’s proven a bit tricky to work it into components. Because silicene is made of silicon, which most chips are already made of, the integration process could be much simpler.

Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical University in Germany, along side researchers at Aix-Marseille University in France managed to create silicene by condensing silicon vapor onto a silver plate to form a single layer of atoms. They then tested the sheet and found that it closely matched the properties silicene was theorized to exhibit. The next (challenging) step will be to grow silicene on insulating substrates so that it can be fully tested and evaluated for potential future uses in electronics. Looking forward to see what they do with this stuff. [New Scientist]

Image Credit: WikiCommons/Ayandata


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~ Friday, April 27 ~
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lomographicsociety:

Canon Canonet QL17 G-III: Poor Man’s Leica

Can be found easily, compact, easy to load, automatic or manual override, and equipped with fast and sharp lens make it one of the best and affordable rangefinder camera ever made. Some people call it poor man’s Leica.


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lomographicsociety:

The Comprehensive Guide to Vintage Film Cameras

For April’s Phototuts+ feature, we’ll be learning about various vintage films and cameras. Read on for this comprehensive guide from Cameron Knight.


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~ Thursday, April 19 ~
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Fuji Velvia 50 RVP: A Film with Dual Personality

The Velvia I used seemed to behave differently - it was like having both colour negative and slide film!


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~ Saturday, April 14 ~
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One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Nerdbot

Most couples like to spend their time traveling, dining, or just relaxing at home. But not Missouri-based Nicholas and Angela of Nerdbots. The lovebirds spend their weekends at junkyards and thrift stores, rummaging through scrap materials for their next robotic creation.


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~ Wednesday, March 28 ~
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philphys: A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that Nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all! -Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume I

philphys:

A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that Nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

-Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume I


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~ Monday, March 26 ~
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lomographicsociety:

The Cat in Analogue

It is undeniable that we Lomographers have an endless fascination for cats. Hey, I could bet that they are favorite subjects! Those cute felines, they surely make our day!

That’s why this week at our selection of Lomographs, we give you 50 sweet Lomographs of cats! This sure is interesting! So head on and view our gallery!


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~ Saturday, March 24 ~
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Expired Film

lomographicsociety:

Expired Porst Chrome X 100: A Golden Wonder

Cleaning out the attic, I came across a bunch of old films that had been gathering dust for years. Trying an expired roll of Porst Chrome X 100 gave me some nice surprises.


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~ Friday, March 23 ~
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lomographicsociety:

Wanted Dead or Alive in Singapore: Your Old LC-As!

Want a whopping 75 Piggies? Join the Great LC-A+ Buyout in Singapore and you shall be duly rewarded! LC-As with stuck shutters, broken winders, scratched lenses, or dirty bodies are okay. As long as your LC-A isn’t completely wrecked, Piggies will be coming your way!


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~ Monday, March 19 ~
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It's Full of Stars

itsfullofstars:

Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design

  1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
  2. To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it’s a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong.
  3. Design is an iterative process….

(Source: crookedindifference)


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