A fascinating look into what it took to become the first numbered female runner of the Boston Marathon as told by runner Kathrine Switzer.
Kathrine Switzer: First Woman to Enter the Boston Marathon
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Tin Can Robot
I got a tin can robot as a late Christmas gift. And it’s fantastic! Posted by Matt Scott
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.
Rocket Builder: A Game Jam Tech Demo Video
I’m currently at the NASA Ames Research Center attending the Dark Side of the Jam. crypticsea just posted this visualgasm of a tech demo.
The Science of Hipster Music
Priceonomics created a chart that scientifically measures the hipster factor of music. This is an application of their data crawl service. They used ratings data from the independent music review site Pitchfork and correlated it against the number of Facebook ‘likes’ of the review.
Oz The Great And Powerful Trailer
A few days ago my cohort Dennis Bonilla posted the teaser poster for the movie and now the trailer has officially hit. It looks like it could feel magical but…
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