The Robopocalypse won’t be a war between robots and humans. Robots, sentient or not, will be soldiers in a human war.
Lexical Differences Among European Languages Visualized in a Graph
Nearly 75% of the words in the English language come from French, Latin, and the Romance Languages. Yet, English is considered a Germanic language.
Why?
Power Goes Out at Mercedes-Benz Superdome During Super Bowl XLVII
Super Bowl XLVII was disrupted when half of the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana was thrust into darkness. The power outage occurred only minutes after the half-time show reunion of…
NASA Releases Space Junk iBook About Orbital Debris Management & Risk Mitigation
This is pretty cool, the NASA Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL) has released a free iBook and ebook PDF about space junk. This is the official page for the NASA Orbital Debris and Risk Mitigation iBook on the NASA website.
Hell’s Club Mashup by AMDSFILMS Answers the Question of How Many Famous Movie Characters Can Be in a Single Awesome Video
Al Pacino walks into a bar…and so do Ewen McGregor, Robert De Niro, Patrick Swayze, and many many others. This extraordinary edit introduces some of film’s most famous characters to a place called Hell’s Club.
In Soviet Russia, Snow Clears You
In the spirit of winter, and all things snow, my wife sent me this video of a man cleaning the snow from his roof. This man clearly knew how to work smarter and not harder, by outsourcing the work to gravity.
Diary of a Space Zucchini
‘I sprouted, thrust into this world without anyone consulting me. I am not one of the beautiful; I am not one that by any other name instills flutters in the human heart. I am the kind that makes little boys gag at the dinner table thus being sent to bed without their dessert. I am utilitarian, hearty vegetative matter that can thrive under harsh conditions. I am zucchini – and I am in space.”