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2013-05-18 16:37:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Why Manhattan's Green Roofs Don't Work--and How to Fix Them: City rooftops covered with vegetation are seen as a way to reduce the urban heat-island effect and cut energy usage--but so far, the results have been unimpressive http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-manhattans-green-roofs-dont-work-how-to-fix-them

2013-05-18 16:35:22 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

Dev Patel to play mathematics genius Ramanujan in new biopic http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/movies/dev-patel-to-play-mathematics-genius-ramanujan_134652.htm

2013-05-18 16:11:41 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

These are not your traditional "slow zombies." :) Stunt coordinator Ronnie Shalvis and the CBR Stunt Team created “The Flipping Dead,” featuring zombie parkour stunts. http://youtu.be/oUpO6mftCOg

2013-05-18 16:00:50 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

In large earthquakes, the Earth moves for almost everyone - http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2013/05/in-large-earthquakes-the-earth-moves-for-almost-everyone/ 

2013-05-18 15:59:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

LHC Creates Tiny Drops of Big Bang 'Blood Spatter' : Discovery News http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-creates-worlds-smallest-big-bang-droplets-130517.htm

2013-05-18 15:50:04 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Antarctic Neutrino Observatory Detects Unexplained High-Energy Particles: A preliminary analysis from the IceCube detector reveals more than two dozen neutrinos of unknown origin. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=icecube-neutrinos-space

2013-05-18 15:36:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Physics Week in Review: May 18, 2013 | Cocktail Party Physics  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/05/18/physics-week-in-review-may-18-2013/

2013-05-17 23:55:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

C’mon Baby Light My (Magnetic) Fire: cascades of quantum spin-flips spread like wildfire http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/05/17/cmon-baby-light-my-magnetic-fire/

2013-05-17 23:33:25 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Seriously, J.J. Abrams: enough with the lens flares already! Death By Lens Flare: What if you took a sip of alcohol every time you saw a lens flare in Star Trek Into Darkness http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/overthinking-it/2013/05/16/death-by-lens-flare-drink-into-darkness/

2013-05-17 23:28:38 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Physicists Find Way to Measure Earth's Rarest Element: Using a machine that creates beams of radioactive atomic nuclei, CERN physicists found the ionization potential of astatine http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=physicists-measure-earths-rarest-element

2013-05-17 22:00:19 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Depressing genes: is depression a matter of genetic destiny? http://www.doublexscience.org/depressing-genes/

2013-05-17 21:55:56 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 8 +1s)

What will really happen when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts? http://on.io9.com/5U0jAy4 

2013-05-17 21:50:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Viewpoint: the latest changes to the DSM psychiatric bible aren't perfect, but they're the best we have for now http://ti.me/12hGJsY

2013-05-17 19:08:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

What Stresses Gorilla Glass Makes It Stronger: Theory tackles how glass remembers earlier forces. http://www.insidescience.org/content/what-stresses-gorilla-glass-makes-it-stronger/1009 

2013-05-17 17:30:12 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Mediocre Poison Eaters And The Imperfection of Evolution: "The evolutionary race is not in fact won by the perfect, but by the good-enough." http://on.natgeo.com/12AFwPh

2013-05-17 17:25:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A banner day at the LHC: An artist honors the people and science of the CMS collaboration. via @symmetrymag http://shar.es/Z7bIM

2013-05-17 17:23:11 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Telework makes you more productive, and working together makes you more creative. And therein lies a paradox. The real challenge for people who run modern organizations is understanding what type of thinking they want to do, not where to do it."

2013-05-17 17:21:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

We Are All Princes, Paupers, and Part of the Human Family - "Most of the people you are descended from are no more genetically related to you than strangers are." http://nautil.us/blog/we-are-all-princes-paupers-and-part-of-the-human-family

2013-05-17 17:17:07 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

Jorge Cham: The Overeducated Cartoonist (one of LA"s "most interesting people") http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2013/05/jorge_cham_people_2013.php

2013-05-17 15:28:21 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz: fantastic post by Stephen Wolfram on the co-inventor of calculus. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfried-leibniz/

2013-05-17 15:22:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Gorgeous Black-and-White Photos of Vintage NASA Facilities | Brain Pickings http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/17/vintage-nasa-facilities/

2013-05-17 15:19:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Friday Weird Science: What's your Farting Frequency?@scicurious looks at classic 1941 paper. "Nothing says science like a big rubber tube shoved up your butt and TAPED to the abdomen and back." http://j.mp/10JWKqv

2013-05-17 15:14:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

VIDEO: Parisian art exhibit Sous Influences (Under Influences: Artists and Psychotropics) at the Maison Rouge.- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxoe3r_sous-influences-docu_creation

2013-05-17 15:05:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Is It Quantum Computing Or Not? DWave based their processor on an effect called quantum annealing http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/17/is-it-quantum-computing-or-not/

2013-05-17 15:02:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

How immigration shaped the famous New York accent (VIDEO). Apparently NY has more vowels than anywhere else in US.  http://scienceline.org/2013/05/the-ingredients-of-the-new-york-accent/

2013-05-17 15:00:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Blueprint for SteamMegaPunk Flyer, 1868, the creation of Joseph M. Kaufmann of Glagow http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2013/05/steammegapunk-flyer-1868.html 

2013-05-17 14:56:22 (3 comments, 10 reshares, 31 +1s)

Via io9: Poor Commander Hadfield. Without that wondrous zero gravity environment, Earth has become a rather boring place. http://youtu.be/27TnoKDAtEA

2013-05-17 14:49:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Ask #xkcd: What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies? http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/

2013-05-16 22:23:06 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

The Magic Box: a short film about magic and nostalgia. http://youtu.be/DyfM7oLIlp0 

2013-05-16 18:49:56 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Simulating a Pendulum in VPython -- because @orzelc CAN, that's why! http://on.natgeo.com/107slph

2013-05-16 18:08:15 (6 comments, 13 reshares, 19 +1s)

"Every marginalized group has some question, or questions, that are routinely asked of them -- and that drive them up a tree; questions that have insult or bigotry or dehumanization woven into the very asking."

2013-05-16 17:47:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Scientific research? We built that! - And the sequester threatens that legacy. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/300161-scientific-research-we-built-that

2013-05-16 17:42:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The Game Of Thrones Car Paradox: How Magic Makes People Stupid. "Muggle pride, bitches!" http://jalopnik.com/the-game-of-thrones-car-paradox-how-magic-makes-people-507048886

2013-05-16 16:37:25 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

A reality check from Ed Yong: "This post on underpowered neurosci" http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/10/neuroscience-cannae-do-it-capn-it-doesnt-have-the-power/ … "is relevant to today's news on brain-stimulation & maths."

2013-05-16 16:28:56 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

"if innovation requires people who thrive on collaboration, why are our education systems so focused on individual achievement?"

2013-05-16 16:26:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx: Egyptian Oedipus "one of the most learned monstrosities of all times.” http://shar.es/Z2Fep

2013-05-16 16:23:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Terahertz Image Reveals Goya’s Hidden Signature in Old Master Painting http://techre.vu/10Zy0t6 

2013-05-16 16:20:42 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Shocking: Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/brain-stimulation-math/

2013-05-16 16:18:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Ciudad Blanca, Legendary Lost City, Possibly Found In Honduran Rain Forest -- because LIDAR is awesome, y'all http://huff.to/17vu63I 

2013-05-16 16:16:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Are thoughts more fundamental to our reality than particles? Quantum Mechanical Words and Mathematical Organisms  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/16/quantum-mechanical-words-and-mathematical-organisms/

2013-05-16 16:15:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Who’s the greatest American physicist in history? | The Curious Wavefunction picks lesser-known Joseph Henry Gibbs as his favorite http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2013/05/16/whos-the-greatest-american-physicist-in-history

2013-05-16 16:12:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Gorillas Agree: Human Frontal Cortex is Nothing Special. It's communication among brain's networks that matter. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/05/16/gorillas-agree-human-frontal-cortex-is-nothing-special/ 

2013-05-16 16:08:49 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

A Little Girl With Giant Axons, a Deranged Cytoskeleton, and Someday Gene Therapy  http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2013/05/16/a-little-girl-with-giant-axons-a-deranged-cytoskeleton-and-gene-therapy/

2013-05-16 16:05:22 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

These inside-out horses are both creepy and cool: educating ppl about anatomy and biomechanics of horses — by painting the innards of the horse on their outsides to give an inside look at how a horse moves and functions. http://io9.com/these-inside-out-horses-are-both-creepy-and-cool-507086897

2013-05-16 16:01:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

The science that discredited the "sons" of Marie Antoinette; how genetics solved a 200-year-old mystery http://io9.com/the-science-that-discredited-the-sons-of-marie-antoin-504323934

2013-05-16 15:55:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Resistance Is Futile: The Illogical Science of Star Trek http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/16/star_trek_science_mistakes.html

2013-05-16 15:50:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Observation of Hofstadter Butterfly a Breakthrough for Physicists: a butterfly-shaped energy spectrum exists in the quantum realm.  http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1950/20130515/ovservation-hofstadter-butterfly-breakthrough-physicists.htm

2013-05-15 22:31:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Water Worlds, Tatooines, and Earth Twins: Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope's Greatest Hits  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/kepler-telescopes-greatest-hits/

2013-05-15 22:29:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Goldbach Variations: "The ternary Goldbach conjecture, like so many questions in number theory, is easy to state but hard to prove."  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2013/05/15/goldbach-variations/ 

2013-05-15 22:26:09 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

How to Make a Playable Record Using a Laser Cutter http://laughingsquid.com/how-to-make-a-playable-record-using-a-laser-cutter/