DNA testing confirmed that the bear in this picture is a hybrid between a grizzly and polar bear. Scientists attribute the hybrid to global warming forcing the two bear species into each others’ habitats.
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Grizzly + Polar = Grolar Bear
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Big Minds Colliding
Colliding with nature’s best-kept secrets – CNN.com
Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed.
Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may confirm Arkani-Hamed’s predictions about undiscovered properties of nature.
Arkani-Hamed is only in his mid-30s, but he has already distinguished himself as one of the leading thinkers in the field of particle physics.
His revolutionary ideas about the way the universe works will finally be put to the test later this year at Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider, which, when completed, will be the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
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Infocom – Hitchhikers Guide
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Reuse your CDs as a Record
Very cool…where new school meets old school. Well, CDs aren’t exactly new school I guess. Oh well cool non-the-less.
Using a record-cutter to turn old CDs into 45RPM singles – Boing Boing
As part of Manchester’s Futuresonic 2008 conference, you can have your old CDs and DVDs “overwritten” with a vintage record cutter and converted to a 45RPM record
Tardis MAME console
Long time Technorama listener pointed us at this DIY project to make your own Tardis shaped game console. “Honey… I know what I want for whatever the next holiday is….”
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/tardis/index.html
Pictures and instructions included!
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I Remember Technorama
Listener Bruce Barr sends in another one. Tell us what you remember. (206)222-2428
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I want an R2 Unit!
This is an interview and video with a R2 builder at Maker Faire 2008. It looks amazing, and it looks like fun especially with the kids.
I had a remote control one years ago, a much smaller early 80s version, and it’s funny that they mention voice controlled in this interview about the droid. My remote version was on the same frequency as my walkie talkie, and I could key up the mic on it and make sounds into the thing and the R2 unit would pick up on it and move. Hours of enjoyment for a Star Wars Freak.
Star Wars: DIY R2-D2 Is Even Better than the Real Thing
Chris James’ R2-D2 won four Make Magazine editors’ choice ribbons at Maker Faire and it’s easy to see why: not only does it have every detail from the original
Don't Panic! Towel Day is Near.
Don’t forget on Towel day (May 25th), or even if you carry it with you all the time, take a picture of yourself with it. Add it to the Technorama group and also tag it with ‘towelday’, ‘towelday2008’.
It asks nothing from you, but serves unquestionably. So, Be proud of your Towel! Take it out for a walk and a drink, maybe even dinner for Pete’s sake.
Towel Day :: A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there’s a frood who knew where his towel was. You are invited to join your fellow hitch hikers in mourning the loss of the late great one. Join in on towel day to show your appreciation for the humor and insight that Douglas Adams brought to all our lives.
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Chuck is right
Long time listener Bruce Barr records some final comments.
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Wow…Nasa knows how to Build stuff
Link on over to Gizmodo. They have a video of an old launch pad that they are demolishing. This is better than my Implosion Video.
Launch Pad Crash: NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back
We have seen many spectacular demolitions, but the destruction of the Mobile Service Structure at NASA/USAF’s Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is perhaps the most striking of them all: instead of imploding down, the whole ultra-strong metal structure falls to it side and actually seems to bounce on the ground
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