Toph Tucker

testing guys testing guys after the break

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:24:05 -0400

testing guys testing guys

after the break

The Future

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:13:45 -0500

★ The Future

3D printing, drones everywhere, computers and phones that work better faster longer (batteries), medicine, cure the common cold, cure cancer, GM foods that are actually like crazy healthy and delicious, education, monorails, non-disruptive supersonic…

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Too Few Astronauts Have Died

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:03:46 -0500

★ Too Few Astronauts Have Died

Twenty-seven years ago yesterday, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, seventy-three seconds after takeoff. Evidence suggests that the crew quite possibly survived breakup and was alive until impact with the ocean.*NASA lead accident investigator Robert…

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★ Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groupsView Postshared via...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:01:07 -0500

★ Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groups

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The Six Beings Who Have Died In Space

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:36:46 -0500

★ The Six Beings Who Have Died In Space

Six beings have died in space (i.e., above 100 km):

1957: Laika (dog), Sputnik 2 — overheating (instead of mid-orbit euthanasia as intended)*
~1965: French astrocat, name unknown (cat) — unknown
1971: Georgi Dobrovolski (human), Soyuz 11 — decompression
1971:

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randomgrabs: Tussle.

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:21:10 -0400

randomgrabs:

Tussle.

Photo

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:38:28 -0400

Photo

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:11:07 -0500

nevver: I Will Never Lego, Jay Mug

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:48:35 -0500

nevver:

I Will Never Lego, Jay Mug

Photo

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:28:18 -0500

The U.N. estimates that the world population hit 7 billion...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:53:47 -0400

The U.N. estimates that the world population hit 7 billion people today. Friday’s Orient had a chart to commemorate.

Edge: THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:40:49 -0400

Edge: THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE:

one of the most important things i’ve ever read, though it just scratches the surface. there’s tremendous promise (& danger) in thinking about life & behavior non-teleologically (reductively).

Introducing the 2011 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows

Wed, 25 May 2011 18:10:37 -0400

Introducing the 2011 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows:

“John plans on using his fellowship to develop space industry technologies to solve the problem of extraterrestrial resource extraction.” NBD.

Reality

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:41:15 -0400

Reality

Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2011 - pt1

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:26:13 -0400

Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2011 - pt1:

Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote from SXSW Interactive 2011. Awesome.

pt. 1: http://bit.ly/hZgQeU (Genetics etc.)
pt. 2: http://bit.ly/dPp8aK (Italy etc.)
pt. 3: http://bit.ly/fg4BuI (Millennials etc.)

"Bread and the Newspaper" by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:11:13 -0400

"Bread and the Newspaper" by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Edward Teller: "I was the only victim of Three-Mile Island."

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:41:18 -0400

Edward Teller: "I was the only victim of Three-Mile Island.":

Autcompleter - Mountain View - US jobs - Google

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:41:13 -0400

Autcompleter - Mountain View - US jobs - Google:

Google job posting for an autocompleter. “Every day people start typing more than a billion searches on Google and expect Google to predict what they are looking for. In order to do this at scale, we need your help.”

Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal planet.

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:11:16 -0400

Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal planet.

Obama has his OWN computer

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:56:16 -0400

Obama has his OWN computer