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Showing some love to math lovers - Inside Search

I still recall the day when my friend Yossi came to school and showed off his brand new graphing calculator. I was stunned by how easy it was to plot complicated functions — meanwhile, the rest of us were still drawing them by hand on graph paper. Today, I’m hoping to share that magical feeling with students around the world, with the introduction of graphing functionality on Google....

Dec 6th

Spring Metrics Blog » Infographic: The Evolution...

Do you remember the dot-com bubble? In the early days of the information super-highway, VCs and entrepreneurs alike were more concerned about the number of page views than they were about revenue. Back then, it was all about “eyeballs.” But as the bubble burst entrepreneurs realized that eyeballs don’t pay the rent and they had to get back to business basics. You know, generate...

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Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →

Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…

Oct 18th

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Sep 30th

Game Day - Go Blue!!!

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Sep 10th

Not soccer-friendly

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Finally, a useful infographic: Where to Get the...

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Jul 2nd

Instructables: Fireworks Controller

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Working Arcade Light Switch by AlephDesign on Etsy

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Jun 3rd

3D Printing Lets You Touch The Statistics [Video]...

3D printing is ushering many exciting trends into reality but one of the more engaging applications of the technology has to be in creating data sculptures which make statistics palpable. We marvelled at Mitchell Whitelaws subtle coffee cup weather sculpture and now ITP’s Michael Knuepfel has created a 3D printed sculpture which visualises the frequency with which keyboard buttons are...

Jun 1st

Evening Clouds

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Jun 1st

Harry & the Potters Wizard Rock Concert At The...

Are you ready to rock? More importantly, are you ready to wizard rock? For those of you staying in town this holiday weekend, check out Harry and the Potters play live this Saturday! AADL is happy to have them back in Ann Arbor on their current tour. Harry and the Potters are brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge, who produce rockin’ songs based on the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling....

May 27th

NASA abandons Mars rover Spirit, chooses to...

More than a year after it first lost contact with its Mars rover Spirit, NASA has finally decided to throw in the towel. Yesterday, the agency confirmed that it will end all planned communications with the robot on May 25th, effectively ending the craft’s seven-year mission. NASA was hoping that the approaching Martian spring would allow the Spirit to recharge its solar...

May 25th

NASA - Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano

Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano On May 21, 2011, Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano erupted, sending an ash plume 12 miles (20 kilometers) high and closing Keflavik Airport, Iceland’s largest. Ash fell on much of Iceland, with some areas pitch black at midday on the 22nd. This eruption is not expected to disrupt air travel as much as taht of Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 because the Grimsvotn ash particles are...

May 23rd

Indy 500 centenary commemorated on U.S. postage...

Official: Indy 500 centenary commemorated on U.S. postage stamp To celebrate the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, the United States Postal Service is releasing a run of 50 million first-class mail stamps depicting Ray Harroun and his Marmon...

May 23rd

Google abandons master-plan to archive the world's...

Google abandons master-plan to archive the world’s newspapers Published May 19 2011, 05:29 PM by Carly Carioli In an email today to publishers including the Boston Phoenix, Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning, and indexing microfilm and other archival material from...

May 20th

Kindle Books Now Beating All Print Versions...

Sam Biddle — Pa-per? What is pa-per? Some sort of cereal? Do you wear it? What—people used to read things off of it?! No. I can’t believe this, because I live in a world in which Kindle copies officially outsell everything. Amazon had already boasted that Kindle eBooks were outselling paperbacks, but now digital copies are...

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Mar 26th

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Please Run Michele, Please!!!

“I look at the Libya situation and I think it’s very concerning because the president essentially decided that American air sorties, air strikes, would be made with American soldiers and because of that, we’re committed now,” she said. I guess the Canadians weren’t available for these American missions? Michele Bachmann, Minnesota’s version of Ms. Palin,...

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QuickCal Desktop Quickly Creates Events from Plain...

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Some Old School Star Wars →

heyoscarwilde: Here’s a Christmas gift for you. All 16 Star Wars iron on transfers taken from The Star Wars Iron On Transfer Book (Ballantine Books/1978). Download the zip file with all 16 optimized images at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6JVBJ190 (if this doesn’t work or expires, shoot me a message and I’ll re-up. I just tested it and it works fine). Print the image you choose...

Dec 21st

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Shots from The Big Chill

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Dec 12th

Thumbs up. HootSuite now universal app for iPad - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hootsuite-for-twitter/id341249709?mt=8

Nov 18th

16 Months Later, Say Hello To Google Voice For The iPhone. It Was Worth The Wait. http://t.co/cfHLbJv via @techcrunch #finally

Nov 16th

Check It Out: The best physics websites: The 2010 Physics.org Web awards honor the best sites dedicated to physi… http://bit.ly/cEpsFE

Nov 16th

Bliss. “Dad, can we get a football?” from Big and Little.

Nov 14th

I tip my hat to all of you who served, are serving and especially in memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. #veteransday

Nov 11th

Fine moustachery and immaculate grooming doesn’t grow on trees. Pls donate to #Movember: http://us.movember.com/mospace/325540/

Nov 6th

Congrats to @joshaweston on what comes next #joshslastday Was great to have the opp to work with you

Nov 6th