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Today is an important anniversary for Russian hero Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet missile commander who saved the world from nuclear destruction in 1983. Sadly there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing. How long will we keep getting lucky?

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Professor Richard Dawkins argues that belief in god is irrational and inflicts great harm upon societies.

This video has boosted my mood at work, I’m sure it will do the same for you too

Basement Jaxx – Take Me Back To Your House

A very nice flash animation, showing births, deaths and cardbon dioxide emissions on a world map.
Breathing Earth

“Biovisions at Harvard University” video “The inner life of the cell” shows some of the processes happening inside your cells. The scale of the work done inside your cells is trully incomprehensible, I can’t wait to see more of this kind of videos with explanations of different processes. If you know of any videos or movies similar to this, do leave a comment please.

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My goal in making the book freely available is twofold. First, I want to reach the widest possible audience, especially among poor students. Second, I am a pragmatic libertarian on free culture and free software issues.

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Tutorial at Photojojo shows you how to use the Photoshop Polar Coordinates filter to turn a Panorama or Landscape photo into a really amazing planet. Examples of San Francisco, New York, and Venice included.

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This is hydrophobic sand, that hates water It would be pretty cool to have this kind of sand at the beach, so it doesn’t stick to your body, when you’re wet…

An Irish company claims to have developed a device that generates energy out of interaction of magnetic fields. They published an article in the Economist, inviting scientists to examine their device and confirm that their invention works. As unbelievable as it may seem if this turns out to be true our world will become a much nicer place to live

Personaly I believe that it could be possible, I’m a hopeless optimist, however… And these guys… Unless they are some sick people, who just want publicity, I see no reason for them to lie…

Why would they invite scientists from all over the world to test their invention, if it didn’t work?

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What could be better than google earth? How bout being able to track real time weather, fires, floods, sandstorms all across the globe by the click of the mouse! Also super maps of Saturn, the Moon, EVEN A DEEP SPACE VIEWER! WOW is all I can say. NASA has out done itself with this one, I can’t believe this hasn’t been covered more on digg…

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