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The Juice King
While browsing through an antique store yesterday I found this little jem. I’ve been on the hunt for a jadeite juicer for a few years but the power of this little guy had me sold immediately. Juice on!
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Woman and Infant Found Buried in Des Moines
Well, not recently and without foul play. I suspect it’s because I don’t read the papers, but I’m glad to learn a year later that “the Palace,” a well preserved 7000 year old prehistoric settlement (with woman, infant, and housing foundations) was discovered a short drive from the old homestead: “It’s always fun to find…
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Quantum Levitation
whaaaa? Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field (www.quantumlevitation.com). For an explanation of the physics behind this demonstration, visit www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html.
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Acme’s Wine Bottle Klein Bottle
The day that I have a spare $100 bill laying around and a nice place to put it, I will own this. I love the description, which includes “Yes, you can store wine in it, and pour wine into and out of it. But no, it’s not very practical as a wine carafe…” “As impractical…
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Maxfield Parrish Quilt?
I had no idea Maxfield Parrish had designed a quilt until stumbling across this post while looking for inspirational sketches for a project for my boys… According to QIsForQuilter, the design (A Circus Bedquilt) was published in a 1904/1905 issue of Ladies Home Journal. Might be fun to track that one down (Not as a…
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Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
And another awesome idea for a camera: http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera
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Never Take an Out of Focus Photo Again!
This is pretty amazing—really. https://www.lytro.com/ Photograph without an eye for focus; shoot now, focus later. I’m curious to see this thing in action…it’s an exciting idea but I wonder what its limitations will be. I’m also excited/terrified of what it’s applications will be 20 years from now! The samples on the site don’t appear to…
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What Do Babies Think?—or—have you ever fallen in love in Paris after drinking three double espressos?
In this TED talk Alison Gopnik explores how babies think: when they start thinking of others and how their minds pull in sooo much information that what’s commonly observed as misbehavior is a kind of information overload. To put the perspective in to “grown up” terms she describes the pattern as: …like being in love,…
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Electronic, Street-Legal Custom Tron Bike
I learned about this custom bike while watching Diggnation. I’m not a bike guy, but this looks very nice (although I suspect comments about it being an uncomfortable position to ride aren’t far from the truth)! http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/tron-lightcycle-electric/
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My Baby Boy
I love this little critter 😉 (photo from my wonderful wife, StacyZ.