What a Week!

May 26, 2012 – Not so standardized

James Messer | May 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

We’re back after two weeks off! Our stories; a big MPG road trip, landing on Mars, Florida standardized testing nonsense, every bit of water, and a much better lunch.

This week’s links:
What a Road Trip! – http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/hypermiling-taylors-set-fuel-economy-record-in-volkswagen-passat-tdi/

What a Rover! – http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

What a Standard! – http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/test-scores-plummet–so-florida-drops-passing-grade/2012/05/21/gIQAzopIeU_blog.html

What a Water Sphere! – http://boingboing.net/2012/05/10/if-you-put-all-the-water-on-ea.html

What a Lunch! – http://grist.org/list/nine-year-olds-lunch-blog-shames-school-into-making-changes/

May 5, 2012 – My Expiration Date

James Messer | May 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week, we return from our holiday week with a variety of stories: The brain of a student, seizures among friends, disposing of your salsa, the anti-jaywalk, and the earth from the International Space Station.

This week’s links:
What a Flatline! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/students-brain-flatlined-dur.html

What a Friendship! – http://www.metafilter.com/115132/Wanna-test-a-friendship

What a Mustard! – http://consumerist.com/2012/04/when-to-toss-your-old-ketchup-and-mayo.html

What a Jaywalk! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/how-jaywalking-was-invente.html

What a Time Lapse! – http://www.metafilter.com/115135/Full-Screen

April 21, 2012 – Glow in the Dark

James Messer | April 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week: Canada makes dinosaur bones glow, Florida struggles with science, Paramount may never get it right, enhance the shuttle, Angry Birds in space, and attack of the non-hacker.

This week’s links:
What a Dinosaur! – http://www.canada.com/quarter+features+glow+dark+Alberta+dinosaur/6428342/story.html

What a Standard! – http://thehappyscientist.com/blog/problems-floridas-science-fcat-test

What a non-Monitization! – http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120411/14465718457/paramount-thinks-that-louis-ck-making-1-million-12-days-means-hes-not-monetizing.shtml

What a Shuttle! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/17/gigapan-photo-of-space-shuttle.html

What an Angry Bird! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/18/slingshots-in-space.html

What an Overreaction! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/19/norwich-city-soccer-team-deman.html

April 14, 2012 – Here Comes the Sun

James Messer | April 14, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week: Comparing online maps, Joyce or Keith, the Magic Kingdom in Minecraft, yet-another outsourcing failure, real-time sun activity, and an overpass for wildlife.

This week’s links:
What a Map! – http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/

What a Writer / Wrapper! – http://www.hudsonhongo.com/joyce/index.php

What a Magical Day! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/10/walt-disney-world-in-minecraft.html

What a Mortgage! – http://consumerist.com/2012/04/former-goldman-sachs-staffer-companys-mortgage-mod-process-as-total-disaster.html

What a Sun! – http://helioviewer.org/

What an Overpass! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/lynx-uses-wildlife-overpass-to.html

April 7, 2012 – Desert Seiche

James Messer | April 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week: Right on red, hit and stop, no more warm cookies, a converting machine, Devil’s Hole seiche, and explore the galaxy!

This week’s links:
What a Traffic Light! – http://energy.gov/articles/right-turn-red

What a Right-of-way! – http://www.metafilter.com/114592/Share-the-road

What an Upgrade! – http://consumerist.com/2012/04/frontier-erases-last-midwest-airlines-remnant-no-more-warm-cookies-onboard.html

What a Conversion! – http://dwellertech.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/converting-all-my-amiga-disks.html

What a Seiche! – http://tremblingearth.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/spectacular-video-of-devils-hole-seiche/

What a Galaxy! – http://www.omgspace.net/

March 31, 2012 – My Little Mashup

James Messer | April 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week: Wikipaintings, sea currents, map the wind, lose that penny, my Jennifer Aniston neuron, and mix your gender!

This week’s links:
What a Painting! – http://www.wikipaintings.org/

What a Current! – http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7009056027/

What an Wind! – http://www.metafilter.com/114327/The-answer-my-friend

What a Exchange Rate! – http://www.budget.gc.ca/2012/themes/theme2-info-eng.html

What a Friend! – http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-brain-wiring-no-brainer-scans-reveal.html
https://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/03/30/149685880/neuroscientists-battle-furiously-over-jennifer-aniston

What a Mix! – http://www.genderremixer.com/html5/

March 24, 2012 – A Murder of Crows

James Messer | March 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week: Collective nouns, helium shortages, balloon cameras, Magic Kingdom lights, and 14 billion years of space-time.

This week’s links:
What a Murder of Crows! – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns

What a Party Balloon! – http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/18/helium-party-balloons-squandered

What an Earthquake! – http://www.metafilter.com/113991/A-Whole-Lotta-Shakin-Goin-On

What a DIY Balloon! – http://boingboing.net/2012/03/21/diy-balloon-camera-photos-from.html

What a Theme Park Light! – http://passport2dreams.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/all-lights-of-kingdom-part-one.html

What a Universal Timeline! – http://arst.ch/swt

March 17, 2012 – Not So Much Hum

James Messer | March 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week: See-through fishies, sunspots and more sunspots, symphonic fist fights, back to a 40-hour week, and an international game of tag.

This week’s links:
What a Fish! – http://boingboing.net/2012/03/14/x-ray-of-a-scorpion-fish.html

What an Angry Red Spot! – http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/15/the-suns-angry-red-spot/

What a Concert! – http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/chicago-symphony-fist-fight-c.html

What a Work Week! – http://www.alternet.org/visions/154518/why_we_have_to_go_back_to_a_40-hour_work_week_to_keep_our_sanity/?page=entire

What a Game of Tag! – http://www.tag-challenge.com/

March 10, 2012 – Blue Light Special

James Messer | March 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

This week – Mothers and iPhones, baseball by pay phone, Hogwarts for real, flashing the International Space Station, launching a Lego shuttle, intellectual parody, and school lunches of the day.