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News in chemistry. Originally shared by **** http://www.sciencealert.com/new-type-of-chemical-bond-discovered

Carl-Eric Menzel​, here's Daniel Kurka's slides about Singular, the Angular-inspired Java-based system that I was talking about. Originally shared by Daniel Kurka For those who are eager, here are my slides on #singular, videos is going to follow: http://daniel-kurka.de/talks/gwtcreate15/singular.pdf … http://daniel-kurka.de/talks/gwtcreate15/singular.pdf

Warmer oceans provide the moisture and energy for big snow storms. Most of the United States had 71%-80% of their snowstorms in warmer-than-normal years. So yes, the extra snow covering the East Coast is due to climate change. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/26/3615330/blizzards-climate-scientists/

This blog has plenty of useful articles on Belegarth fighting, from individual styles and moves to large-scale strategy. Plus amusing stories. Enjoy!

Originally shared by Alan Williamson

Only 340 days till Christmas. Better get started in time this year.

Settlers of Catan is a great game, especially as an introduction to the non-violent "Eurogames" style. I particularly like it with the Knights and Cities expansion. However: deliberately not explaining all the rules to get an advantage is unsportsmanlike. Yes, you might forget some, especially in more complex games, and situations may come up where the initial explanation was unclear, but deliberately leaving out rules is on the level of displacing pieces when your opponent's back is turned. http://on.wsj.com/158jfhj

Big wiring day. Rather fiddly due to the limited space on the left, but it worked. Having the Melzi on the right and resistors on the left would have given more space, but then the wires from the PSU might not have been long enough.

Ten warmest years on record are within the last 20 years. Sounds scary enough, but is still just a piece of statistics. The video on this page gives a much better impression of how much global temperature has changed. It's scary, really. http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/28/

Hadn't seen a calculation of the cost to society of carbon emissions. And apparently the old calculations were low by a factor 5. Originally shared by **** http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2390589/the-real-social-cost-of-carbon-usd220-per-ton-report-finds

Pop quiz: Which is more dangerous: islamic terrorists, toddlers, or refridgerators? Read on to find out. Originally shared by Carl-Eric Menzel Islamists are behind a tiny, tiny fraction of terrorist attacks. But for some reason, conservative politicians and a large part of journalists seem interested only in painting Muslims as evil. Via Mickey Blake​. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html

Curious about the pretty pictures on your ChromeCast? You can ask Google what it's showing. Originally shared by Ziv Horesh

Sometimes you're right in being paranoid.  Originally shared by Adrian Knoth "KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity." http://samy.pl/keysweeper/

Mounting electronics for fun and profit. Or just fun.

I knew that Labor Day in the US and Canada is in the fall, not May 1st like most of the rest of the world. What I didn't know what that May 1st was chosen to commemorate the Haymarket Affair (/Roit/Massacre) in ... Chicago. The more you know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

Repeat after me: Golgi apparatus! Golgi apparatus! Golgi apparatus! Wonderful name, and an interesting organelle, too. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_apparatus

Today, I got to practice stripping and soldering.

Originally shared by Ted Ewen In keeping with my last post... A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing, ...

X axis mounted, but the extruder has some differences I'll have to deal with. nop head What's with the wing nuts opposite the nut traps for fastening the extruder to the X carriage? Is there supposed to be a bolt that I don't see mentioned?

Long article on getting your 3D prints from raw to cool. I already had several people admire the parts of my Mendel90 that I simply painted. http://makezine.com/projects/make-34/skill-builder-finishing-and-post-processing-your-3d-printed-objects/