Short video about a scientific glassware maker

Short video about a scientific glassware Maker Mark Frauenfelder at 7 P.m. Tuesday, APR 12, 2011

[Video link] Etsy created this short documentary film about glassblower Kiva Ford. He makes custom scientific glassware for research and Discovery Chemistry. He is a member of the American society for the scientific glassblower. He says "We make some pretty wild things". "Extractors, reactors, cooler, custom piston - and it not be made by a machine or mass produced." Handmade portraits: Kiva Ford

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Republic chalk: California's state flag, about 100 million years

Republic chalk: California's state flag, about 100 million years AgoCory Doctorow at 10: 47 am IM Monday, Apr 4, 2011

The Cretaceous Republic shirt is provided as "California's state flag before 100 million years." in account.

Chalk Republic (via Super punch)

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All what you know about the big Bronx Zoo Cobra must honey badger of Twitter invasion

All what you know about the big Bronx Zoo Cobra honey badger Twitter InvasionXeni Jardin at 10: 59 am IM Thursday, Mar 31, 2011, must

Recently, Bronx Zoo on Twitter announced that their Egyptian Cobra had fled. Also, was recently a video of a creature known as the honey badger, who happens, enjoy feasting on Cobras, viral.

Fake accounts jumped into each other, as so many were perky Twatted daffodils in the spring of Tweets and crashed a number of memes LOL nuclear fission cause unprecedented scale. Boom!

Sean Bonner breaks it all for you.

UPDATE: The Bronx Zoo Cobra arrested was, according to a local news station.

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What about Chernobyl sound?

What about Chernobyl sound?Xeni Jardin at 12:03 pm Thursday, Mar 31, 2011

Inspired by Maggie's post about the miles O'Brien NewsHour PBS report from Chernobyl, 25 years after the disaster there a follower on Twitter just pointed me to this amazing series of works by sound artist Peter Cusack - ambient sounds in Chernobyl Ukraine, recorded in the year 2006.

Hear the frogs and Nightingales of Chernobyl here. Beautiful.

The project note:

da nuclear disaster of 26 April 1986 and full as opposed to human life, nature in Chernobyl thrives. The evacuation of people has created a private haven and wildlife has to take full advantage. Animals and birds have returned absent for many years - wolves, moose, black storks - and exclusion in Chernobyl zone is now one of the European prime wildlife areas. Radiation seems one have had a negligible effect. The increase in the wildlife figures and diversity means that the natural sounds particularly impressive spring. For me, the passionate species of rich dawn chorus of Chernobyl was final sound. Chernobyl is also famous for its frogs and Nightingales. Nightly concerts were similarly spectacular.

Of course, in terms of the NewsHour, today Chernobyl report sounds as phones ringing. News crews from around the world try all book time on the site reports on 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in history to produce.

Related: Cusack's "Sounds of dangerous places" collected sounds from places, including Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, project, and in the vicinity of controversial dams on the Euphrates and Tigris River systems in Turkey, are the sites of major environmental damage.

(Image: Peter Cusack, via gruenrekorder.de.) (Thanks, Sara Huws!)

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