Martin Middlewood Mount Everest Isn't Really The Tallest Mountain on Earth ScienceAlert - Josh Hrala Ever since Sir Edmund Hillary reached its peak back in 1953, thousands of adventures have set out to conquer the deadly summit of Mount Everest. In …
Martin Middlewood Tiny Witnesses: Microbes Can Tell When A Murder Victim Died NPR - Rob SteinWhen police investigate suspicious deaths, one of the key questions is: When did the victim die? A study published Thursday in Science may lead forensics experts and detectives to a more precise answer
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Martin MiddlewoodEstonia There Are Gigantic Wooden Megaphones in Estonia’s Forests Travel + Leisure - Melissa LockerOver 50 percent of Estonia is covered with forests, and a new project is helping bring the sounds of those woods to life. An architecture student from the Estonian Academy of Arts came up with the idea
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Martin Middlewood Scientists now know why popcorns pop The Guardian - Hannah Devlin, science correspondentStudy unravels physics of kernel – water contained in the shell rapidly escapes as steam under heat, making the corn ‘pop’ The popping sound made by popcorn is normally viewed as a pleasing cue that your
Martin Middlewood This Artist Uses Banana Peels To Create Eye-Catching Art BuzzFeed - Tamerra Griffin It's pretty un-peel-lievable.
Martin Middlewood These Inventions Are Weirder Than Anything You'll Find at CES This Year TIMECaption from LIFE. New back brush lets bather see just what she is up to. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images This week’s Consumer Electronics Show has introduced such modern marvels a
Martin Middlewood Let Electric Ink Light Up Your Next Project Popular Science - Jeremy CookLiberate your next electronics project from the constraint of wires and run current through a painted line of graphite instead. A DIY graphite paint won’t conduct electricity as well as a wire or an expensive
Martin Middlewood This Neuroscientist Is Trying to Upload His Entire Brain to a Computer VICE - Georgia RoseHumans, if you hadn't already noticed, have stopped evolving. As David Attenborough recently reminded us, our species is the first – by our free will – to remove itself from the process of natural selection,
Martin Middlewood This means raw: extreme dieting and the battle among fruitarians The Guardian - Alexandra KleemanOn the second night of the Woodstock fruit festival in upstate New York, long after dinner had been cleared, I stood in the dining hall and waited with other festivalgoers for what was rumoured to be “fuck
Martin Middlewood INFOGRAPHIC: The History of Print electricliterature.com - Lincoln Michel Planning to write more cultural criticism in the new year? We’ve made it easy for you Use the letters of your name to generate a can’t-miss …
Martin Middlewood I am hypnotized by this giant-headed mystery woman who helped make the atomic bomb The Verge - Arielle Duhaime-RossNuclear historian Alex Wellerstein has made something chilling and beautiful. He took all of the badge photos of the people who devised the atomic bomb during World War II at Los Alamos, and he built mosaic.
Martin MiddlewoodThe White House Washington D.C. Is Littered With Phony Cell Towers Popular Science - Andrew RosenblumThe Russian Embassy, White House, Supreme Court, and other landmarks have some nosy neighbors, claims the maker of an ultrasecure mobile phone. Continuing a sort of cross-country tour to detect phony towers,
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Martin Middlewood Africa’s Multi-Level Floating Hotel with an Underwater Room My Modern Met - PinarThe Manta Resort is a beautiful, multi-room hotel that sits on the Indian Ocean island of Pemba. The spectacular getaway offers not only a place to rest your head for the night, but also some truly breathtaking
Martin Middlewood Top 8 Most Innovative Pinball Machines of All Time Popular Mechanics - By Seth PorgesAt Popular Mechanics, we've got gaming geeks, energy experts, resident astronauts and roboticists—even an extreme surgeon. But no one's got our gadget guru beat on his pinball wizardry. From the invention
Martin MiddlewoodNitrogen Cryopreservation: ‘I freeze people to cheat death’ BBC Future - Rose EvelethIn the operating theatre, the body is treated to avoid freezing damage, and the head removed if requested (Courtesy of Alcor Life Extension Foundation) Surgeons prepare a body for ‘perfusion’ of a solution
Martin Middlewood Man 3-D Prints Backyard Castle, Plans Two-Story House Next NBC News - We apologize, this video has expired.We've been using cement as a building material for thousands of years — but never quite like this. Andrey Rudenko of Minnesota used it in a custom 3-D printer to create a tiny castle in his backyard, by
Martin Middlewood At Last, Scientists Unravel Mystery of Death Valley's Moving Rocks NBC NewsThe first witnesses to an enduring natural mystery are an engineer, a biologist and a planetary scientist who met thanks to a remote weather station. This odd group has captured the first video footage
Martin Middlewood Voodoo Dolls Prove It: Hunger Makes Couples Turn On Each Other NPR - Rob SteinA lot of us know what can happen when we get hungry. We get grumpy, irritable and sometimes nasty. There's even a name for this phenomenon: "Hangry, which is a combination of the words hungry and angry,"
Martin Middlewood Who Buried the $10 Million in Coins Found by a California Couple—and Why? National Geographic - A. R. WilliamsWhat they found, where it's from—and what are the odds? The dream of discovering buried treasure came true for a California couple who found a real pot of gold while walking their dog. The largest such
Martin Middlewood Scout Leaders Who Toppled Ancient Rock Formation Are Charged NPR - Scott NeumanA former Boy Scout leader who toppled an ancient rock formation in Utah's Goblin Valley State Park, and another Scout leader who videotaped the incident, are being charged with criminal mischief. As we
Martin Middlewood Porsche's first vehicle found in shed after a century The Verge - Jacob KastrenakesThe first Porsche ever made has been recovered from a shed in Austria where it sat for over 100 years. The vehicle is called the "Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, C.2 Phaeton model" — nicknamed the "P1"
