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Go Your Own Way
Rib Tips: A Web-created route of the author's favorite BBQ placesLuis BrunoWhether an epic road trip or just a quick jaunt to the mall, load your drive into your GPS the easy way-by using an online map...
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The Joy of Cardboard
Cat in a BoxBrocA Dutch office builds furniture that both cats and humans can love Imagine life in a cardboard box -- but without the smell of urine and stale body odor of a bum's home, and with a...
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Preparing for Tsunamis in California
Hilo, Hawaii, April 1, 1946People run from the approaching tsunami. Note the wave just left of the man's head in the right center of the image.Pacific Tsunami MuseumNew mapping technology plots...
View ArticleRobot of the Week: the Friendliest Little Autonomous Explorer
A low-tech alternative to GPS Your mother told you never to speak to strangers, but what if the stranger was a robot on wheels, who was lost and needed your help? Thirty-eight people in this very...
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Edushi's 3-D Pixel-Art Maps of Chinese Cities Put Google Maps to Shame
Pixel Art Hong Kong MapEdushiThe future of online mapping tools? Yes please I've always been a fan of the pixel-art illustration style, whether it's the latest eBoy poster or illustrations by Quick...
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A Map of the First Moonwalk, Showing Scale
Baseball on the MoonNASAFor your convenience, NASA has here superimposed a map of Aldrin and Armstrong's strolls around the Sea of Tranquility onto a standard baseball diamond. They didn't cover too...
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DARPA Wants To Detect Chemical Attacks By First Mapping Every City's Normal...
Knowing Your City's Scent Could Help DARPA Prevent Chemical AttacksAndrew Mason on FlickrThen, if something goes wrong, a quick whiff will let them know Don't mind those folks sniffing around the gas...
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Harvard Researchers Illuminate Connections Among Brain Cells in Technicolor
Fly BrainbowHHMI via Technology ReviewIn 2007, Harvard scientists figured out how to combine fluorescent proteins to create an entire color palette, and then used it to make mouse neurons glow so they...
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NASA Heads Back to the Moon, to Uncover Its Origins and to Inspire A New...
NASA's Grail MissionTwin spacecraft will orbit in tandem, measuring tiny changes in the distance between them to map the moon's gravitational field.NASA/JPLThe GRAIL mission launches this week NASA is...
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3-D Laser Maps Show How Major Quakes Rend the Earth
How Earthquakes Rip the GroundEarthquake surface ruptures cut and warp the ground in this 3D rendering of the post-earthquake topographic survey, colored by elevation change during the earthquake....
View ArticleCanadian Gamer Facing $50K Fine For Train Station Map Says He'll Release It...
Diego Liatis says he'll face the potential lawsuit for creating a map of Montreal's Berri-UQAM metro station. Last week, we reported on a gamer facing nearly $50,000 in fines for creating a map of...
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Apple Buys An Indoor Mapping Company, Having Finished With The Outdoors
Berlin, Antarcticavia TumblrIndoor mapping is the future, and this sounds cool. Having done a bang-up job with its own regular mapping app (ohwait), Apple has, according to the New York Times, acquired...
View ArticleWhat Would Antarctica Look Like If All The Ice Melted?
Spoiler: still not super hospitable. Ever wondered what's underneath the ice--sometimes up to three kilometers thick--that covers Antarctica? Until very recently, we weren't really sure; maps were...
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The Joy of Cardboard
Cat in a Box BrocImagine life in a cardboard box -- but without the smell of urine and stale body odor of a bum's home, and with a whole lot more accoutrements. A Dutch ad agency works in an office...
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Preparing for Tsunamis in California
Hilo, Hawaii, April 1, 1946 People run from the approaching tsunami. Note the wave just left of the man's head in the right center of the image. Pacific Tsunami Museum View Photo GalleryThe tsunami...
View ArticleRobot of the Week: the Friendliest Little Autonomous Explorer
Your mother told you never to speak to strangers, but what if the stranger was a robot on wheels, who was lost and needed your help? Thirty-eight people in this very predicament chose to speak to the...
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Edushi's 3-D Pixel-Art Maps of Chinese Cities Put Google Maps to Shame
Pixel Art Hong Kong Map Edushi I've always been a fan of the pixel-art illustration style, whether it's the latest eBoy poster or illustrations by Quick Honey featured in our own pages. But this, I'm...
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A Map of the First Moonwalk, Showing Scale
Baseball on the Moon NASA For your convenience, NASA has here superimposed a map of Aldrin and Armstrong's strolls around the Sea of Tranquility onto a standard baseball diamond. They didn't cover too...
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DARPA Wants To Detect Chemical Attacks By First Mapping Every City's Normal...
Knowing Your City's Scent Could Help DARPA Prevent Chemical Attacks Andrew Mason on Flickr Don't mind those folks sniffing around the gas station - they're researchers. DARPA has a new scheme to...
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Harvard Researchers Illuminate Connections Among Brain Cells in Technicolor
Fly Brainbow HHMI via Technology Review In 2007, Harvard scientists figured out how to combine fluorescent proteins to create an entire color palette, and then used it to make mouse neurons glow so...
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