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criticaltoys: Scientists at MIT and Harvard have invented self-folding smart fiberglass sheets that can crease themselves into origami airplanes and boats. It’s a far cry from previous programmable matter research we’ve seen, which works at the nanoscale to create scaffolds and gears. The fiberglass sheets are about a half-millimeter thick and made of half-inch-wide triangular…
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Scientists at MIT and Harvard have invented self-folding smart fiberglass sheets that can crease themselves into origami airplanes and boats. It’s a far cry from previous programmable matter research we’ve seen, which works at the nanoscale to create scaffolds and gears. The fiberglass sheets are about a half-millimeter thick and made of half-inch-wide triangular tiles.…
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It isn’t a hyperkinetic movie but, rather, one of a dazzling proliferation of precise moments organized around a point of stillness, and its speed depends on a quartet of notable recognitions. First, movie-and-video-steeped viewers are more perceptive than ever, more able than ever to extract salient narrative content from an image at a glance; second,…
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Morse admitted that there was no formal reason for that position. It was just a feeling. “We’re not saying that we’re measuring educational outcomes,” he explained. “We’re not saying we’re social scientists, or we’re subjecting our rankings to some peer-review process. We’re just saying we’ve made this judgment. We’re saying we’ve interviewed a lot of…
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When he took on his current job, in the mid-nineteen-eighties, the college guide was little more than an item of service journalism tucked away inside U.S. News magazine. Now the weekly print magazine is defunct, but the rankings have taken on a life of their own. In the month that the 2011 rankings came out,…
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Wow, I am *so* the mom of a little boy. Look at me posting about toy cars, twice in a row. Love this Green Toys School Bus. Made in the USA from 100% recycled plastic milk containers! (via swissmiss | Green Toys School Bus)
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No carpenter should be without a pair. (via The Postmodern Polymath: Build It Yourself: Folding Sawhorses)
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oliphillips: Concrete Lego Blocks by studio1015
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The visual truth of Barbie
The visual truth of Barbie bobulate: A group of Swedish neuroscientists determined that the perception of your whole body is affected by the size of your body image. How? By “tricking” people into being Barbie: A research group at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has managed to make people feel as though they actually inhabited…
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How to create stunning mood boards with So.cl
fuselabs: Mood boards are a common tool used by visual designers and marketing teams to establish the look and feel or brand for a project. Typically this is done by searching through image archives and painstakingly building the collections in mosaics, and it involves numerous steps to collect, organize, and layout manually by hand. Read…