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Morning Cup of Links: Water on the Moon
by Miss Cellania - July 10, 2008 - 2:20 AM
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Water Found in Moon Matter. This throws the current theories of the moon’s origin into question.
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Dopey the hamster, and her private Lego elevator. So cute and so geeky at the same time!
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Marketing to scientists is a cutthroat business. You’ve got to put some imagination into convincing them that they need an expensive new piece of equipment.
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10 Richest People of All Time and How They Made Their Fortunes. Most used methods not available to you or me.
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Western Spaghetti is made with nothing that you would expect. Probably nothing found in your kitchen now!
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The majority of glaciers around the world are shrinking. The exception is California’s Mount Shasta, where glaciers are growing, not in spite of, but because of warmer Pacific temperatures.
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Improv Everywhere took 16 sets of identical twins on a subway ride to create a Human Mirror. Those who witnessed it were delighted with the spectacle.
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Check out the amazing, interactive drumming robot from Georgia Tech. He not only plays, he listens and improvises, too!

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Comments (6)

  1. You don’t know it, but you’ve just saved my ass. Thank you!

    posted by Jen on 7-10-2008 at 4:07 am

  2. I believe that Improv Everywhere will not appreciate the editing you have done to their name.

    Feel free to delete this comment after the correction

    posted by benng on 7-10-2008 at 5:05 am

  3. Oops! I misspell that all the time, cuz I r not a gud typer. Will fix.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 7-10-2008 at 6:58 am

  4. To whoever found the epMotion ad - that’s hilarious! As a scientist who works in a lab (and who has a machine that does the same thing from a competitor…sh), that video made me feel dirty. Ew. But the whole lab appreciated the link - thanks mental_floss.

    posted by labrat on 7-10-2008 at 9:20 am

  5. Western Spaghetti is awesomeness.

    posted by Johnny Cat on 7-10-2008 at 10:48 am

  6. I live in Mount Shasta City, at the base of Mount Shasta on the west side. On our side the snow pack looks like it may not be there in September. The east, which was in the picture they had for the article, doesn’t get as much sun as the west.

    posted by Emily S S on 7-10-2008 at 12:05 pm

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