Tag: Technology
What If The Sun Disappeared?
Everyone is curious about what would happen to Earth if the sun disappeared. In short: We’d be hosed.
Popular science educator Michael from Vsauce returns to the web to discuss gravity and the Sun. As a thought experiment, he asks the interesting hypothetical, “What if the sun disappeared?“
It’s not going to happen, but interestingly enough, if it did, we wouldn’t be aware that anything was wrong for a good eight minutes, as it takes that long for light to travel the millions of miles from the Sun to the Earth.
Brain Power
The real difference between our brain and the Internet… the Internet can not think.
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BRAIN POWER: From Neurons to Networks is a 10-minute film and accompanying TED Book (ted.com/tedbooks) from award-winning Director Tiffany Shlain and her team at The Moxie Institute. Based on new research on how to best nurture children’s brains from Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child and University of Washington’s I-LABS, the film explores the parallels between a child’s brain development and the development of the global brain of Internet, offering insights into the best ways to shape both. Made through a new crowd-sourcing creativity process the Moxie team calls “Cloud Filmmaking,” Brain Power was created by putting into action the very ideas that the film is exploring: the connections between neurons, networks, and people around the world.
3D Printed Guns
Technology… putting power back in the hands of citizens and keeping tyranny at bay. It’s a beautiful thing!
Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he’s putting all the information online so that others will join him.
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This is a story about the rapid evolution of a technology that has forced the American legal system to play catch up. Cody Wilson, a 25 year old University of Texas Law student, is an advocate for the open source production of firearms using 3D printing technology. This makes him a highly controversial figure on both sides of the gun control issue. MOTHERBOARD sat down with Cody in Austin, Texas to talk about the constitution, the legal system, and to watch him make and test-fire a 3D-printed gun.
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