The Nakamura Hammer is my new favorite paper airplane. Here are the instructions I followed to make it. The “Nakamura Lock” which makes this plane so stable in flight is named after Eiji Nakamura, author of Flying Origami.
How to Make a Nakamura Hammer Paper Airplane
Lincoln is in.
Ellen Tweets an Epic Selfie at the 86th Academy Awards and Makes Oscar History
In an attempt to capture the greatest selfie of all time at the 86th Academy Awards, Ellen DeGeneres took the following picture.
The smarter we make the machines, the closer we make them rivals. -Ralph Baer
Vintage 1977 NASA Video talks about Voyager 1
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Trailer
It’s almost been a decade since the 2003 release of Return of the King, the 3rd movie in the Lord of the Ring trilogy. I The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is slated to be released this December. It’ll be the first of three films that make the prequel to The Lord of the Rings. I’ve been a fan of the books for many years, and even read some of Tolkien’s denser fare, like the Simarillion, which recounts the creation myth for Middle Earth…