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High school students use DNA barcodes to uncover food fraudTwo New York City high school students use a new DNA analysis technique to find 95 different animal species around them. The duo found much more than anticipated with the project when 11 of the 66 foods they looked at had misrepresented the actual contents on the labels. These foods ...
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Roomba Pacman - Boing BoingThe Roomba Pac Man uses indoor location sensors and Unmanned Aerial System software to create a playable (albeit slow) PacMan built on repurposed autonomous vacuum cleaners.
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This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer - hovercraft - GizmodoDennis Schaller was a rocket engine mechanic in the Air Force and an electrical engineer on the Apollo missions. So, it's not surprising that he ended up with this thing after 20 years of working on a travel trailer."Most people think it's a spaceship," Schaller said of his silver creation that ...
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mental_floss Blog » Cookie Tin Guitars and Vegetable Orchestras: Unconventional DIY InstrumentsI washed dishes at a local restaurant for a whole summer when I was 15 to save up for my first guitar — a Rickenbacker 360 — which I’m still not all that amazing at playing. The folks in these videos, on the other hand, spent between one and maybe twelve bucks on the raw materials for their ...
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Badass of the Week: Juliane KoepckeOn Christmas Eve 1971, in the skies above the desolate, remote jungles of Peru, LANSA Flight 508 got its ass rocked like a hurricane by a ginormous bolt of lightning that blew the entire fuselage apart like a humongoid human-filled flying pipe bomb with wings. Juliane Koepcke, a quiet seventeen ...
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John Quincy Adams tweeting thanks to Mass. society by AP: Yahoo! TechIt seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time. A high school student touring the sixth U.S. president's archives recently noticed his bite-sized diary entries looked a lot like tweets. Starting Wednesday, history will meet modern technology as the Massachusetts Historical Society begins ...
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The Most Dangerous Sport: Cheerleading - Yahoo! NewsCheerleading safety efforts have led to modest reductions in the number of serious injuries in recent years, according to a new report about college and high school sports and cheerleading mishaps. But cheerleading continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries by far than other sports. Re...
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Student who blew kiss to mom denied diploma - Education- msnbc.comA Maine high school senior says he was denied his diploma because he bowed during graduation and blew a kiss to his mother. Justin Denney was about to receive his Bonny Eagle High School diploma on Friday when he pointed at friends and relatives. Schools Superintendent Suzanne Lukas ordered ...
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Video: ‘Unko-san’ lucky poop anime (subtitled) ::: Pink Tentacle“Unko-san,” a new anime series about a brown turd-shaped fairy with lots of luck, is fast becoming the rage among high school girls in western Japan. Short episodes of the anime are now showing in the Osaka area on Kansai TV’s “Otoemon” music program. The stories revolve around Unko-san — whose ...
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China dominates NSA-backed coding contestChina dominates NSA-backed coding contest Chinese student, 18, wins, prompting call for earlier math and science education in U.S. By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to ...
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