Archive for July, 2010

The World Cup: Game On

Abbie Fentress Swanson of the Virginia Quarterly Review on her recent trip to Durban for the World Cup:

I played soccer up until I moved to New York at age twenty. But during the time I played, I never attended a professional soccer tournament and am still trying to wrap my head around the culture of football. America's basketball, baseball, and football stadiums are souped up with massive scoreboards and jumbotrons, bombarding fans with player statistics and replays so that fans can judge the referees' calls. The Durban Moses Mabhida stadium has two medium-sized screens that show the game, but there is no official game clock, or extra information about the team or its squads. The players get the game time from coaches on the sidelines, and fans just have to keep track of the clock, or use binoculars to read it on the television screen.

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Are Night Owls More Intelligent?

Three studies found that evening-types are more likely to have higher intelligence scores, children with higher IQ scores tended to grow up to be nocturnal adults, and evening-disposition is correlated with the ability to apply divergent thinking strategies to visual content.

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Daniel Hadiwibawa Photography

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HR-2 Electric Bike by ELMOTO

Elmoto is a light electric bike weighing 45kg It can reach a top speed of 45km per hour Aand takes 2-4 hours to recharge the battery.

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Time Lapse of a Night Run Down the Houston Ship Channel

A time lapse video made by setting a camera to take photos at six second intervals during a trip outbound on the Houston Ship Channel. I used Quicktime to assemble over 2000 individual photos into a 3 minute movie representing an actual time of over 3 1/2 hours. The ship was only moving at 5-6 knots for the first half of the trip and up to 10 knots in the open areas away from the docks. The journey begins just below the Port of Houston turning basin at the end of the channel and continues down to Morgan’s Point at the head of Galveston Bay. We still had 32 miles to go to get out to the pilot station in the Gulf of Mexico at that point. The ship is a Panamax tanker 600 feet long by 106 feet wide.

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What’s New? : Engineers Like Dirt

What's New? covering what's new in tech, this week we take a look at The Art of Engineering - a lecture by James Dyson, inventor of the Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner who talks about the design process.

In the late 1970s, Dyson noticed a cyclone tower for removing particles at a saw mill and was inspired to mock up a vacuum cleaner based on the same principles. It took 5, 127 prototypes and almost five years to build. "The 5, 126th failure taught me so much. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do," says Dyson. "You don't get things by sitting at a drawing board or lying in a bath."

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My Ninja, Please! 7.8.10: Epic Headlines!

Here’s the proof from Reuters!A We can’t make this stuff up ourselves.A Um… we wish.