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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Casual Friday — Food ad tricks
If you ever thought that photographing food was simple (or that ads are honest), here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how food is made to look its best for a TV advertisement…
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Carnivalia — 5/19 – 5/25
Posted in Biology, Carnivalia, History, Humanity, Math
Tagged Biology, Carnivalia, History, Humanity, Math
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The scientific tourist #125 — Lunar Orbiter
I’ve told you before about the ongoing effort to reprocess (and as a result, to enhance) old data tapes from the Lunar Orbiter program of 1966-1967. Well, if you were curious about what the original spacecraft looked like…
Casual Friday — a D.I.Y. Turing Machine
Compute anything that can be calculated — with some tape leader and a dry-erase marker…
Carnivalia — 5/12 – 5/18
The past week’s crop of science-related blog carnivals awaits your reading attentions…
The scientific tourist #124 — Edmontosaurus
This week’s image is of an Edmontosaurus at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science…
Casual Friday — airspace rebooted
An amazing visualization of northern European airspace returning to (a very busy) normal after being closed for much of April thanks to that unpronounceable volcano in Iceland…
Four Stone Hearth #92
Welcome to the 92nd edition of the Four Stone Hearth archaeology / anthropology blog carnival!
Posted in Biology, Carnivalia, History, Humanity, Technology
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Carnivalia — 5/05 – 5/11
After last week’s flurry of blog carnivals, we go back to a calmer flow this week (still plenty of good reading material, though!)…
Posted in Biology, Carnivalia, Communicating science, Math
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The scientific tourist #123 — banded iron
A slab of banded iron at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C….