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Our attention was drawn to the personal site of Bret Victor atWorryDream.comtodayby Gizmodo. We’re impressed. This is a site built by the man who designed the original iPad and iPod touch interface, the interactive data graphics in Al Gore’s iPad book on climate change, engineered an analog-modeling synth, a train trip scheduler with an innovative UI and many more projects in Victor’s huge portfolio. The site takes the newest technologies and pushes them to the edge to create a dynamic, interactive, always-moving site....

This tiny particle accelerator fits in a large room — making it much more practical than CERN’s Collider scope The biggest collider in the world, the LHC, uses particle acceleration to achieve the astonishing speeds at which it collides particles. This system was used to measure the sought-afterHiggs boson particle– one of the most elusive particles predicted by the Standard Model, which is our current model to describe the structure and operation of the universe....

It looks like a Lego character, but don’t letMr. Evoltafool you. At just 6′ 7″ the green and white bot has scaled up a rope of more than 1700 ft. in less than 7 hours at the Grand Canyon, has walked the 311 miles from Tokyo to the old Japanese capital of Kyoto and driven the Le Mans racetrack for 24 hours. His 4th challenge will be taking on Hawaii’s grueling Ironman triathlon course....

It’s probably happened to you at least once; you have made all the effort to get to the airport/train station early, only to find out that the next stage of your journey has been delayed. Instead of digging deep and paying for a well-known and expensive hotel or picking an uncomfortable airport or station seat, you could use a Sleepbox, a mini hotel room starting to be rolled out by Russian architectsArch Group, that could change the way people feel about an overnight stay, should they be faced with the prospect....

TLDR:Pagico 10 is the newly redesigned all-in-one app for getting all your tasks, projects, and file organization whipped into shape. Poke around in virtually anybody’s work devices, work notes, or daily work responsibilities and you’re likely to find a fair amount of absolute chaos just under the surface. Sure, most responsible employees have a decent grasp on the projects they’re handling, their timelines, and their overall workflow. But there’s usually so much going on that it doesn’t take a lot for items to start falling through the cracks....