Anxiously awaiting Daft Punk‘s newest album Random Access Memories? It’s currently available as a free stream on iTunes. Click the image below and then hit “Listen Now” in iTunes.
H/T to Stu Cohen for passing this info along.
Daft Punk Random Access Memories Free On iTunes
How to create a 3D model of the surface of Mars using photogrammetry software and NASA Curiosity Rover navcam data
Let’s go to Mars! This video shows how I used Photoscan to generate a 3D model from stereoscopic images taken on Mars by the NASA Curiosity Rover.
The Overprotected Kid by Hanna Rosin
As someone who doesn’t have a kid yet, I talk a big talk when I say to let kids get dirty, get hurt, and make mistakes. However, I have a siblings that are 10 and 20 years younger than me. My brother and sister have happily let me throw them into the proverbial deep end knowing I’d be there to back them up when things got rough. Our fears manifest themselves in peculiar ways, the rules we create for young and old often say as much about our insecurities as what we think of others. Check this article out and consider what it means to let children light fires and play with sharp objects.
Photograph by Peter Yang for The Atlantic
h/t to Tim Bailey for the heads up on this article
SpaceX HQ
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) Headquarters on July 23, 2012. SpaceX was recently selected by NASA to help the United States transport astronauts to space. This press release describes the $440…
The Pocket Guide to DC Bike Laws
As a driver in the District of Columbia I’ve seen some pretty narrow escapes by bicyclists in traffic. To inform cyclists, drivers, and law enforcement officials, the DC Department of Transportation produces a Pocket Guide to DC Bike Laws (PDF).
Welcome to the Anthropocene – A Video About How We Affect Our World
We are the “new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth”.
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…
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