Archive for March, 2012

March 24, 2012 – A Murder of Crows

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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

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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

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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.

This week’s links:
What a Pay Phone! – http://diamondhoggers.com/2012/02/14/in-1990-pay-phones-were-our-only-bridge-to-the-live-baseball-world/

What a Castle! – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109071/Incredibly-detailed-model-Hogwarts-Castle-used-Harry-Potter-film-revealed-time.html

What a View! – http://blogs.airspacemag.com/pettit/2012/03/05/a-flashing-success/

What a Launch! – http://boingboing.net/2012/03/07/teenager-launches-lego-space-s.html

What a Parody! – http://boingboing.net/2012/03/07/louis-vuitton-threatens-law-sc.html

What a Lunch! – http://americanlunchroom.com/

March 3, 2012 – An M-Class Podcast

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This week; tip-a-cop, where’s my GPS, the search for eta-Earth, and I love letters.

This week’s links:
What a Benefit! – http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_20088211

What a Court Ruling! – http://boingboing.net/2012/02/27/fbi-shuts-off-thousands-of-gps.html

What a Trial! – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204653604577249391251534690.html

What a Transit! – http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=190

What a Picture! – http://www.salon.com/2012/02/25/celebrity_portraits_from_new_yorks_first_tabloid/

What a Graphic Character! – http://graphemica.com/