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"The internet is all pumped up over this real floating house recreating the scene from Up! (the movie). Here is a video:
Or perhaps you prefer some pictures. Here is a website full of pictures. here is the deal. National Geographic has some upcoming show and they built this for one of the episodes.
Where do I come in? Well, at first I was like "that is cool - but there isn't much for me to say." But then someone said that they weren't giving out many details of how they did this - you know, saving it for the real show. That is where I come in. You want to keep stuff hidden? I want to find stuff out. Perfect match. Let the game begin."
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"One of my first blog posts on US LHC was titled "My Workbench," following the style of the regular column in Seed magazine. This semester our group finally moved to a new building, so I wanted give a snapshot of my research environment. So, without further ado, here's my annotated office.
Before going into details... yes, it's an office. I don't have a lab, I don't wear a lab coat, I don't even wear closed-toed shoes. (When indoors I'm usually shuffling around in comfy Birkenstocks.) This is partly because I'm a theorist and my experimental colleagues wouldn't let my clumsy hands anywhere near lab equipment--but actually most experimentalists have very similar offices where they do much their analysis work (Christine's rappelling onto the ALICE detector notwithstanding!)."
Links for 2011-03-09
Sometimes being a blogger really amazes me: the community which exists not only between ScienceBlogs, but throughout the blogging community is really nothing less that awesome.
The small fragments of bone are spread out on a workbench in tiny pieces that could fit into a matchbox, betraying the size of their owner: a fearsome sea predator considered the Tyrannosaurus Rex of the oceans.
Psychologists and neuroscientists can be said to be working on the same problem, but they tend to approach it from opposite directions. Psychologists generally look at behavior and then try to understand the mental processes that might cause that behavior.