Thorium, the Green Nuke. Uranium worked best for nuclear weapons, but it is rare, dangerous, and produces lots of nuclear waste, whereas thorium can bypass those problems.
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Alma is an award-winning animated short film by Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas. All children’s stories should be this traumatizing. (via Neatorama)
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Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time. A brain-machine interface has been developed that has been successfully tested on a patient with Locked-In Syndrome. (via J-Walk Blog)
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Japan’s Strangest Man. Not exactly a sight for sore eyes, I couldn’t help but keep watching because he’s enjoying himself so.
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Kim Peek, the inspiration for Rain Man, died Saturday at age 58. Take a look back at the extraordinary life of an extraordinary man.
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Pacman vs. Mario. It goes down to the wire to see who has the slickest moves to win the “game”!
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4 Great Wikipedia Variations. There’s one out there for all tastes and interests.
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I saw Kim Peek once in a National Geographic series called “My Brilliant Brain”. Wel will miss Kim Peek so much. Let his soul rest in peace.
posted by Karl on 12-23-2009 at 5:03 am
Thanks for the link to Alma. What a great short!
posted by Courtney on 12-23-2009 at 8:12 am
Thanks for the Alma link. It was really cute (and awesome looking) even though dolls are creepy.
posted by Christina on 12-23-2009 at 9:04 am
Thanks for the Alma link! I was thoroughly creeped out!
posted by MarMar on 12-23-2009 at 1:10 pm
If James Cameron had know about this, the entire premise for Avatar is shot! At least the real element has a better name then the make-believe one.
posted by TXCherokee on 12-23-2009 at 2:54 pm
Thorium – the secret element that could power the world for the next milenium.
posted by roi_ratt on 12-23-2009 at 5:39 pm
As always, the Pixar short was amazing! I bought the DVD they released not too long ago with all their shorts to date, I hope to see this one on the next one.
posted by Sarah in CA on 12-24-2009 at 1:04 am