May 18, 2012
In Hollywood movies, the smallest fender bender can trigger an inferno. But in the real world, a car doesn’t usually explode — even if you drive it off a cliff or shoot the gas tank. Blowing up a vehicle is deceptively difficult.
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May 18, 2012
Step through the doors of New York’s Park Avenue Armory and you’ll join a DIY expedition to Mars that’s part hard science, part Capricorn One. With new installation Space Program: Mars, sculptor Tom Sachs and his team of 13 astro-artists have crafted an otherworldly fantasy out of common materials, assembling the components of a space program out of readily available materials bought at hardware stores or salvaged from the streets.
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May 17, 2012
Characters on Star Trek suffer frequent misadventures on the holodeck, a room that creates advanced holograms indistinguishable from reality. But now theoretical physicists such as Brian Greene, host of the recent PBS special The Fabric of the Cosmos, are starting to wonder if every object in the universe isn’t some sort of hologram. Greene talks physics and science fiction in this week’s episode of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Hear it, or read the entire transcript, here.
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May 17, 2012
People love to hate on minimalism, but this is pretty cool. (via mymodernmet.com ). 
Source: api.ning.com 
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May 17, 2012
In this week’s installment of Game of Thrones, Jaime Lannister gets some company in his prison cell, Theon Greyjoy goes hunting for Bran and Rickon, and Jon Snow tries not to have naughty thoughts about the pretty redhead he’s keeping on a leash. But does the HBO series do the right thing when it strays from George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy novels?
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May 17, 2012
We know them, and we love them, but what are their actual names? Are you sure you’re ready to know Hey Arnold’s real last name? Check that out and more inside.
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May 17, 2012
An inside joke for geeks. On every page of the Obama campaign website, his coders have inserted this ASCII rendering of the campaign’s logo. 
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