Dr. Terror’s House of Errors
by Michael Kupperman (mkupperman)
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Civil Disobedience on a Turkish Game Show →
While most of Turkey’s journalists were carefully avoiding mention of the protests this week, the host of one Turkish game show found a way to raise the issue not once but 70 times.
-Robert Mackey for New York Times’ The Lede
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Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas →
Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists. The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline.
- Sebastian Anthony for ExtremeTech
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Whirling and Masked
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India's rice revolution →
In a village in India’s poorest state, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice â with no GM or herbicide. Is this a solution to world food shortages?
- John Vidal for The Guardian
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US Secret Service rumbles into action against Bitcoin facilitators →
Bitcoin wouldn’t be nearly as popular as it is if the “regulated financial system” actually worked in a regulated way nowadays, but that’s not the lookout of the granite agents of the Secret Service. I bet they’d love to arrest some reckless and crooked global bankers who destroyed the retirement funds of their agents, but no federal attorney would let ‘em try that.
- Bruce Sterling, for wired.com
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Cloned, looped animations by Erdal Inci
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SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer
