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• An Apple Watch cover for hipsters

  By Shaun on May 29, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  The choice of distressed or polished surface finishes isn’t the only thing setting your aftermarket case apart with whimsical 19th-century improvement upon what can be coldly drab tendencies of the 21st century’s most fashionable hardware. Both finishes lend each cast-copper… Read More ›

• Where is lightning striking the Earth now?

  By Shaun on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A worldwide, real time, community collaborative lightning location network… More here. Likely of no practical use for most people, but interesting nonetheless.

• Liar Liar GE2017

  By Shaun on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  When you have a very catchy song and a message, it can do some serious damage.

• Sympathy

  By Shaun on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She falls in love with Manhattan, and becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer whose life has strange parallels to her own. As Alice closes in on Mizuko, her… Read More ›

• Clouds rolling through the Grand Canyon

  By Shaun on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Millions of visitors a year come to Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park, one of the seven natural wonders of the world and the most visited national park in the western United States. However, on extremely rare days when cold air… Read More ›

• What happens to your identity when you don’t speak to anyone for 27 years?

  By Shaun on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Candy! Always good. Ten rolls of Smarties, stuffed in a pocket. Then, into his backpack, a bag of marshmallows, two tubs of ground coffee, some Humpty Dumpty potato chips. Burgers and bacon were in the locked freezer. On a previous… Read More ›

• A 5mm x 1mm domino can knock over a 100lb domino

  By Shaun on May 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  A domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A chain of dominos of increasing size makes a kind of mechanical chain reaction that starts with a tiny push and knocks down an impressively large domino. That… Read More ›

• FlipbooKit: lost for words

  By Shaun on May 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ve built a mechanized device that reaches into the past to find wisdom. Just think of a question, push the button, and the fluttering pages will help guide you. Each card has a selected set of phrases written by luminaries… Read More ›

• Texas Teacher Gives ‘Most Likely To Become A Terrorist’ Award

  By Shaun on May 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A Texas middle school principal plans to launch an investigation after a 7th-grade student was named “most likely to become a terrorist” in a mock award ceremony “I was shocked,” Lizeth Villanueva, a 13-year-old student at Anthony Aguirre Junior High… Read More ›

• Using wireless headphones and charging your iPhone on a plane

  By Shaun on May 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Here is a Twitter conversation from a few people you may know about using wireless headphones on a plane when you should not be doing so, and in particular when you need to keep your iPhone charged on a long… Read More ›

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