An amazing absurd moment in division III football (the announcing is actually my favorite part):
In case you are unfamiliar, a football can only be thrown forward once per play. Any subsequent throws, called “laterals”, must be backwards. These are quite uncommon, since the players involved run a high risk of dropping the ball.
It’s a few days old, but I just saw this Engadget post pointing me to a nanotechnology-related Wired article. The article highlights some recent work of Professor Michael Kozicki, demonstrating a new method for storing data using nanoscale copper wires.
Today’s technology takes about 10,000 square nanometers to store a bit of data on a chip [...]
Last month I was quick to highlight the Pheonix’s hard-hitting article about my hippest friend. This month though it took me weeks to discover that another friend (and fellow CS grad student) was the focus of this article, which appeared on the front page of the Boston Globe’s business section.
Thanks to the article (and this [...]
Australian performance artist Stelios Arcadious has implanted ear-shaped cartilage in his arm.
According to boing boing (and all these photos) the ear was grown in a lab using his own cells and an ear-shaped mold. A similar technique was demonstrated back in 1997 when cow cells were used to grow an ear on the back of [...]
I’ve never been one to dwell, but just to round out my (as of now) three post series on why Verizon is bad, here’s a link to a recent Times article. The first paragraph pretty much says it all:
Verizon Wireless, one of the nation’s largest cellphone carriers, has stirred up controversy with a letter it [...]
Both Tyler Cowen and Steven Levitt have posted a link to this article which features the following animation/optical illusion. They both seem a little taken aback, so here’s a quick explanation.
The spinning silhouette is a parallel projection of a twirling dance. Since the it’s not a perspective projection, her limbs do not get larger when [...]
Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, has gotten lots of press recently, mainly because the album can only be purchased directly from the band’s website, and is being sold at no specified price. Should you go to the site and click download, you will be asked to name your own price, enter your payment information, and [...]
For some reason yesterday was my first time dining at Phonatic, a whimsically named Vietnamese restaurant off of Thayer Street. My noodle stir-fry got me thinking, what’s the deal with baby corn and asian food? Corn (i.e. maize) comes from North America, but every time I see baby corn it’s in Asian food. Why are [...]
It seems superfluous to blog about an article that was already number one on the New York Times most e-mailed list, but in this case, how can I resist. Apparently the average time for getting a PhD in the US is a whooping 8.2 years, with some fields, education for example, taking much longer. You’d [...]
First off, since I already mentioned web-based photoshop, here’s an update (don’t worry, there’s a video, you won’t need to read anything).
Second, here’s a hot video demoing some content-aware image resizing research first presented at SIGGRAPH 2007. It’s a fairly simple idea that works surprisingly well.
Normally when you shrink an image you either make [...]