Goodies // Random Awesomeness I Encounter

3D Laser Scans of China's Supercave

By Ben | nature, science, technology

Southern China is home to some large caves, featuring some amazingly large chambers. A part [&hellip

Beautiful Maps: Where people run

By Ben | infographics, maps, technology

I have a habit of doing a bit of personal data tracking- using various apps [&hellip

We All Take the Same Selfies: Avadenticals

By Ben | internet culture, technology

Albert Huberts began noticing that there seemed to be a lot in common between people's [&hellip

Listen to Live Wikipedia Edits

By Ben | infographics, internet culture, technology

Wikipedia gets edited, tweaked, and updated dozens of times a minute (if not more). In [&hellip

Cortex: 3D-Printed Exo-skeleton Casts

By Ben | science, technology

Fortunately, I've never broken an arm or leg and been forced to wear an itchy, [&hellip

Motion Amplification Reveals Invisible Motion

By Ben | science, technology

From the Bits blog at the NYTimes: "The amplification process is called Eulerian Video Magnification, and [&hellip

All Citizens Must Everywhere, Every Day, Constantly Fiddle with Their Cell Phones

By Ben | clever, funny, technology

  at Make Use Of via Dave H., on Facebook

OREO Separator Machine created by Physicist David Neevel

By Ben | technology

  I fundamentally disagree with Physicist David Neevel that the creme part of the Oreo [&hellip

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus [A beautiful video infographic]

By Ben | infographics, technology

by Patrick Clair via Information is Beautiful. Beautiful video- scary topic

Wolfram|Alpha Does Crazy Analysis of Your Facebook Profile

By Ben | infographics, technology

You'll need to create a Wolfram Alpha profile and allow it to access your Facebook [&hellip

The Invisible Bicycle Helmet

By Ben | technology

via Starts With a Bang Clips of the helmet in action start at 2:50 or [&hellip

Fire Ants Love Electricity. Bees do not.

By Ben | nature, technology

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Straight teeth in under 60 seconds!

By Ben | technology

Timelapse of a girl with braces from start to finish. Kinda gross

The shame of educational computing.

By Ben | education, quotes, technology

“I think that it is shameful that the education world has allowed the computer industry [&hellip

Changing concepts of school

By Ben | education, quotes, technology

I think if your concept of school is what school is as you’ve seen it [&hellip

Monitoring Clicks vs. Sharing Joy

By Ben | education, quotes, technology

DON’T: get hung up monitoring your kids’ every mouse click DO: begin to share their [&hellip