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Science: Yoshimoto Cube
A video with a little puzzle to start the new year.
The Yoshimoto Cube - a transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from one cube.
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National Geographic: How to make Zero G Idents
The spots shown at the beginning of this video might not be so spectacular, but watch how those have been made later in this clip.
Amazing.
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Video: Levitating Water
Amazing how you can fool the eye with a strobe light and some streams of water.
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Innovations: IBM’s Next 5 in 5
The third annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBMs Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.
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Video: Major meteor over Canada
You might have heard about the substantial (a few tons) meteor crashing down on this planet last week in Canada. Here’s some footage from a police camera showing how it looked from Edmonton, Canada where the thing came down.
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Space: Animated Aurora from Orbit
Astronaut Don Pettit created an astounding video using a sequence of still images he shot of the aurora borealis from the International Space Station.
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Science: A Fish-Like Airship
A research team around Silvain Michel at the Swiss EMPA has created a blimp that moves and steers around like a fish. The airship uses artificial muscles based on electro-active polymers for its propulsion similar to the way fish swim through water.
Here’s a video of the blimp from a competition at the airship convention last week in Germany.
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Humor: The 18th Ig Nobel Prizes awarded
It’s early October again and for some that means the highlight of the scientific calendar have just happened and for others that some at Harvard have again celebrated the silliest science around the globe.
What we are talking about are the 18th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Awards that took place this Thursday at Sanders Theater, Harvard University and informal lectures by the prize winners this afternoon at the MIT Building.
The annual prizes are awarded for…
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Video: I’m a 21st century learner
This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills.
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AI: Autonomous Helicopters teach themselves to Fly Stunts
Finally someone has adapted human learning approaches and used them within AI.
Called “apprenticeship learning” and build into AI Algorithms by Stanford University students, they created an autonomous helicopter system that learns to fly stunts by watching human pilots.
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