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Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns
I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas. They rarely tweet, but when they do it’s usually because they’ve released a new project and they always announce it simultaneously. Their latest piece shows live wind patterns, based on data from the National Digital Forecast Database. It’s beautiful to look at.
Incredible.
This is pretty sweet wind map.
It appears to confirm what I heard on the internet that New York is sucking right now along with Canada. I don’t make up the news, just report it.
Source: flowingdata.com
Putting a flywheel on a bike.
Maxwell von Stein, a 22-year-old graduate of The Cooper Union, built bicycle that uses a flywheel to store energy. Instead of braking, Max can transfer energy from the wheel to the flywheel, which spins between the crossbars. The flywheel stores the kinetic energy until Max wants a boost, then he can transfer the energy back to the wheel using a shifter on the handlebars. production, filming: ian chant, aleszu bajak, flora lichtman. music: prelinger archives. additional images: Maxwell von Stein. Source: NPR
Astronomers discover ‘Star Wars planet’ with two suns
An astrological discovery that would make Luke Skywalker a little homesick is making waves this week — a faraway planet has been found to have two suns.
A team of experts used the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover the planet, which orbits around two large stars — similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Skywalker in the Star Wars films.
In this case, however, the discovery doesn’t get the Hollywood treatment in terms of a name. Its name is the far more prosaic Kepler-16b.
(via:nationalpost|kateoplis)
pssst they found Tatooine
(via tiefighters)
Source: nationalpost
Glow-in-the-dark mushroom rediscovered after 170 years
Spotted once in 1840 and then never seen again, one of the world’s most bioluminescent mushrooms has been rediscovered deep in the Brazilian wilderness.
Glow in the dark shrooms
Source: mothernaturenetwork
Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses
Device requires so little power that it uses mini-solar cells to absorb electromagnetic radiation.
Electric tattoo bugaloo
Source: mothernaturenetwork
Another fantastic interactive by NYT: 30 Years of the Space Shuttle (via kateoplis)
Sad day, not because of the end, but because there is no future replacement.
Source: kateoplis
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