Archive for the ‘scientific awesomeness’ Category

CERN: HDR may create dragons! Woo hoo!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | No Comments

The Large Hadron Collider is the most amazing piece of machinery every created. Basically, it’s one massive racetrack for particles. Think quantum NASCAR with a demolition derby tossed in for good measure.

But it’s the crashing that has two nuts concerned. They claim that the world might end this summer when CERN fires [...]

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BigDog Awesome Four-Legged Robot

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | No Comments

The beginning of the video is kind of spooky, watching the robot cruise up a hill in the forest. However, it gets really awesome when you see how the robot handles changes in terrain (like ice) or getting kicked in the side. Amazing and awesome work can’t wait to see these roaming the [...]

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Richard Feynman and the Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | No Comments

50 minutes of the great BBC/Nova program.

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