Monthly Archives: November 2014

If you like growing plants at home, then you know that they are restricted in space and climate. There are some things that you can do and there are that you can’t. You cant control the temperature and light much … Continue reading →

Filmmaker Danny Cook went earlier this year to Pripyat—an abandoned city near Chernobyl, Ukraine—and captured this new amazing footage. It’s the closest that, hopefully, you will ever see to a post-apocalyptic city, 28 years after the catastrophe that has killed … Continue reading →

This is an older design I’ve been kicking around. All you need is a few pipes with reducing tees, flanges, and some 5′ wood boards and you can build and stain this project in about 3 weekends. We had it … Continue reading →

Don’t let fear get in the way. from HBR.org http://ift.tt/1zDXuiJ via IFTTT

http://ift.tt/126SNTE Large-scale solar plants are monstrous construction projects, that cover hundreds or thousands of acres of land in photovoltaic goodness. This amazing video shows how they go from concept to reality. When it’s finished, this 550-megawatt plant, called Topaz Solar … Continue reading →

Remember the OpenWorm project, in which researchers reproduced the genome of a nematode worm digitally and made it wiggle around on a screen? If you take the "brain" of that worm and use it to power a robotic car, you … Continue reading →

http://ift.tt/1zRpLTI Gregory Johnson of Acoustic Labs plays a beautiful acoustic cover of Massive Attack’s downtempo classic "Teardrop." Original version below. http://ift.tt/1BOf3wV from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/1uw47iR via IFTTT

This is probably the cheapest and best Dremel sander you can make without any modification. It is really safe since its just soft plastic it is well balanced and most of all no weight at all so no unnecessary vibration. … Continue reading →

This is tens of thousands of dollars worth of market research I’m about to spill, so buckle up. I have a spreadsheet filled with hundreds of projects and products that are solutions to ‘home automation’ according to their creators. The … Continue reading →

Astronomers using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have discovered an unexpected alignment of the spinning axes of supermassive black holes located billions of light-years apart. As if that discovery wasn’t fascinating enough in itself, the team then … Continue reading →