Lunch at Paradise Bakery - March 23, 2011

The Art of Racing in the Rain (check out the top review on the page, by Jesse Kornbluth): http://www.amazon.com/Art-Racing-Rain-Novel/dp/0061537969/ref=sr_1_1

Faster than the wind article (still have yet to read): http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_fasterthanwind/

Laser cat bowling (18 seconds): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFztjgfDWDA

Lunch at Five Guys - March 16, 2011

Links from today's episode:

• John Scalzi's thread on best Sci Fi novel of the decade:

• The instapaper site says he won't be doing an android app:

At the moment, there are no plans for native apps on other mobile platforms. I simply don’t have enough time to develop and maintain more native clients, especially for devices that I don’t own.

          But it turns out other people have developed them, and according to this guy the EverPaper app works great.

• Dan Benjamin's awesome online network of talk shows.    Dan's weekly show with Marco Arment (Instapaper dude!): http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/16

• Paul got an S107 Helicopter!

• Roger Ebert's Review of the film Monsters.

• The novel Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.

Lunch at Five Guys - February 24, 2011

Links from today's episode:

• Global Buckets: http://www.globalbuckets.org/
  
  
• The Confidence Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmXHFS28pM 

• Sociopaths, Clueless, and Losers: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
  
• Kanye and Taylor Swift:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8gCZ7zpsQ 

• Kanye Meme Extreme: http://imaletyoufinish.com/ 

• Christian Bale weighs in on Kanye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8xTkbKtEs

Lunch at Pork on a Fork - February 9, 2011

Links from George:

• superheated water: http://www.bookofjoe.com/2011/01/helpful-hints-from-joeeze-water-can-explode-in-your-microwave.html

• mafomufu: https://news.fidelity.com/news/news.jhtml?cat=Opinion&articleid=201101200900KIPLNGERFINANCE__20110119100245&IMG=N

• I remembered another "didn't make much difference" experience -- the Shangri La diet, where you're supposed to get an appetite suppressant effect from consuming flavorless cooking oil.  And I remembered one thing that did, finally, seem to have a positive effect -- the Pain Free exercises.  Thank heavens.

Links from Paul:

• Possible privatization of Shuttle Fleet? http://dvice.com/archives/2011/02/space-shuttles.php  George's response: Here's the link to the photos of the Russian space shuttle today (link to it said "for fans of industrial decay"): http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3259344.html

• Humans better runners, Neandertals better walkers:http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-early-humans-won-neandertals.html

Bigelow Aerospace - Private Space Exploration

Cool photos of Bigelow's plans for a private LEO space station.  Also checkout Bigelow's homepage.

Grains Were Significant Part of Human Diet 30,000 Years Ago

George and I have both dabbled in the "Paleo" diet, so it is interesting to me that I ran across this article through my Anthropology sources:

Grinding Flour in the Upper Paleolithic

Multiple academic papers are cited, and the predominant grain seems to be cattails.

Million Dollar Baby

A favorite scene from a favorite movie:

Water droplet bouncing on a superhydrophobic carbon nanotube array

Yep, just what it says. The video is embedded below, and there's more information here.

You too can be a Moon scientist

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided us with an unprecedented closeup view of Earth's closest neighbor (objects as small as 50cm are visible), and now Moon Zoo wants you to help.

Join Moon Zoo, and you can be a part of a huge "crowd sourcing" activity, designed to analyze the huge number of marrow angle camera photographs, putting a pair of eyes on every one of them.

SETI@Home was fun, but all you could contribute was spare computer CPU cycles.  This time, you can directly contribute! Here's their training video:

Moon Zoo: Crater Survey from The Zooniverse on Vimeo.

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