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…is letting Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques, cruise incognito among great whites. (Here’s a diagram of the sub.) Bonus: it was inspired by Tintin!

…just because I like blimps. (Via Defense Tech.)

Do you have trouble falling asleep? Do you have trouble waking up? By one estimate, 75 percent of adults have some kind of sleep problem every week, so it’s not surprising some people use artificial means to both get to sleep and to wake up. According to a 1998 study from the Henry Ford Health …

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“Making Radioactive Scorpion Venom Therapy Safe.”

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Dinosaur computers, that is. A great collection of photographs of Photo Galleries >computers from 1980-1983, just after I left university and began to become interested in computers. *Sniff.* Those were the days. Ol’ C-64, how I miss you…

I have a feeling that if my computer knew what I was thinking about it sometimes it would shut itself down in abject terror of its imminent destruction.

…small. Really, really small.

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…you see the headline “Denmark to Set Up Ice Cap Stations” and just for a second, you think, “The Danes have just now discovered the joys of iced cappuccinos?” Mmmm…iced cappuccino…

From The Guardian: According to a report from New Scientist, this sort of petty distraction – emails and phone calls from colleagues and family, people dropping by your desk, computer-generated reminders – take up more than two hours of the typical working day. *** In fact, the study showed that due to various distractions their …

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