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• www.dvorak.orgJust when you thought it was safe to get out of the water ... Incredible remote controlled flying fish emerge from the world of awesome! Click http://AirSwimmers.com to see more! Age 8 and up.
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Photos from my trip to Havasu Falls (Tyger Gilbert)
Sierra HancockLast weekend I went with the Arizona Camping Club up to the Havasupai Indian Reservation to camp out and photograph Havasu Falls and Mooney Falls.
Vintage Race Cars Brandish Beauty and Speed at Silverstone
• Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.comThe Silverstone Classic bills itself as "the world’s biggest classic racing festival." With more than 7,000 cars spanning the history of motorsports, we're not about to argue.
This Week in the Future, July 18-22, 2011
• http://www.popsci.com/This week in the future Stars: They're Just Like Us!: Burt Reynolds caught with a fake ID, just like college students across the nation.
Favreau Reinvents Western Genre in Cowboys & Aliens
• WIRED.comWith Cowboys & Aliens, director Jon Favreau puts movie genres in a blender for a modern take on the Western. Rather than cowboys and Indians, the 19th-century inhabitants of a small, dusty town must battle aliens from outer space.
Tame Pikes Peak With Rhys and the Monster
• Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.comThe Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is among the most insanely awesome events in all of motorsports. Each summer, some of the best drivers in the world assault 156 curves and brave precipitous drops in a flat-out sprint to the summit at 14,115 fe
Does the Slope of a Pyramid Really Matter?
• Rhett Allain via WIRED.comThis is the famous Bent Pyramid. The lower part of the pyramid has an angle of 54° and the upper part is at 43°. Why is it bent? Really, who knows. The two likely reasons are:
Scientists Discover Two Never-Before-Seen Kinds of Water Waves
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comOf the things in the physical world we think we know a lot about, water is definitely among them. Nonetheless, by precisely shaking a shallow container of water, researchers have now observed two new types of waves never observed before in water
How ships are launched - Very cool
• youtube.comHow ships are launched, scary but its how it works!
Won't Get Fooled Again?
• http://www.youtube.com/A chronological history of American Wars, Invasions, Coups and Assassinations, set to The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again".
Chemists Discover Freezing Point of Supercooled Water
• KFC via TechnologyReview.comScientists have long known that water can stay liquid at temperatures well below zero. Now they've discovered exactly how low they can go
Five Insane Vehicles That Go Like Hell
• WIRED.comThere are vehicles that help you get around every day—the sensible sedan, the commuter ferry, the sturdy city bike. And then there are machines that double down on technology and design to get from one place to another faster than you can imagine.
Five Insane Vehicles That Go Like Hell
• WIRED.comThere are vehicles that help you get around every day—the sensible sedan, the commuter ferry, the sturdy city bike. And then there are machines that double down on technology and design to get from one place to another faster than you can imagine.
Tinkerer Emulates Iron Man With Real-Life, Palm-Mounted Laser Weapon
• Andrew Rosenblum via PopSci.comOn a rainy weekend last year, Patrick Priebe, a German lab technician and Iron Man fanatic who rewatches the film and its sequel every week, decided to build a compact yet powerful laser inspired by Tony Stark’s repulsor-beam weapon.
Fireworks + Explodables + Ultra-High Speed Phantom HD Camera = The Best Fourth of July
• http://www.popsci.com/The Phantom line of ultra-high-speed video cameras have held PopSci's rapt attention even before the v12 model won our Best of What's New Award in 2008.
The Power Couple of Pyrotechnics Explains the Perfect "Wall of Fire"
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comThey learned to handle explosives in the U.S. Army and they met while skydiving in Wisconsin (he was flying, she was jumping). Now they travel the country blowing stuff up, creating dazzling pyrotechnic displays for airshows that are second to none.
You're Gonna Miss Me- Lulu and the Lampshades (Cover)
• youtube.comLet me know what you think! :)
What is the Hottest Pepper in the World?
• Paul Adams via PopSci.comThe Guinness Book of World Records announced that the Infinity chili was the hottest pepper ever—more than 250 times as hot as Tabasco sauce. Just two weeks later, Guinness declared that the Infinity had been unseated by another British-grown hybrid,
Creepy app uses facial recognition to count women in bars
• RawStory.comA new app aims to maximize the chances of meeting a member of the opposite sex by using facial recognition technology to show how many men and women there are in any given bar.
Tiny camera strapped to lit firework captures its flight
• Kase WickmanEver wonder what a lit firework would see, if it were more than gunpowder and chemicals packed in a very specific order into a cardboard tube? Even if you didn’t, there’s now video footage to satisfy your curiosity.
Toolkit: Gearing Up for a Fireworks Extravaganza
• Mike Olson via WIRED.comWhen the sun goes down on July 4, Americans in more than a hundred cities will see the latest combustible pageantry from Fireworks by Grucci. The 160-year-old pyrotechnics firm has produced eye-popping explosions for everything
U.S., state fireworks injuries down
• MARIA ELENA BACA via StarTribune.comFireworks-related injuries in Minnesota seem to parallel a gradual national downward trend, according to a recent report from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The trend is a reflection of greater caution in general
Happy Fourth! A guide to parades and fireworks
• HometownAnnapolis.comIf you're looking for something fun to do today, we've got you covered with parades and fireworks.
How to Make Homemade Firecrackers
• Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D. via About.comFirecrackers are extremely easy and inexpensive to make yourself. You may want to make your own firecrackers because you are interested in learning how to make simple fireworks or it may be you are unable to obtain fireworks where you live.
How to Make Fireworks
• pudi.dk via Instructables.comThere are many types of fireworks, where one of the most common in firework displays is the aerial shell. The aerial shell is used in fireworks displays, and can be either a round or a cylindrical shape.
DIY Fireworks Blow Away Factory-Made Displays
• Danielle Venton via WIRED.comSome of the biggest, best and most innovative fireworks won’t be on display during the holiday. Instead, they’ll be tucked away in the garages and home workshops of hobbyists like Tom Niesen.
Millions of Fishes: The Ultimate Marine Library
• Dave Mosher via WIRED.comImmersed in thousands of gallons of isopropyl alcohol in a warehouse-like room, 2 million fish sleep forever. Marine biologist Phil Hastings is their keeper.
‘Wife-carrying’ champion wins again
• RawStory.comA Finnish pair have won the country's annual wife-carrying competition for the third year in a row, organisers said on Saturday.
Fireworks + Explodables + Ultra-High Speed Phantom HD Camera = The Best Fourth of July Video
• Paul Adams via PopSci.comSo what better way to celebrate our nation's independence than aiming a Phantom v641 from New Jersey's Vision Research at all manner of explosives, resulting in high-definition footage of fireworks going off at a glorious 2,000 frames per second?
How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science
• Angela Watercutter via WIRED.comIn the event of a zombie apocalypse it will probably help to have: a baseball bat, a gun, a chainsaw and a plethora of blunt objects. Also, it helps to possess a strong grasp of neuroscience.
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