The Year the HEAT is On.
#HeatNATION
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September 2015
Flowing Water on Mars
NASA announced this news today, but the title is not quite right. It’s evidence of flowing water on Mars. It’s briny so it doesn’t evaporate. Briny makes me think of the presence of microbes, so I think the next big Martian news may make us all reach for David Bowie: That’s Mike Garson on the
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An Imgur Exploit.
An opportunistic exploit of images by injecting java script during an upload stores malicious script on the Imgur server that is downloaded to the computers of unwitting users. If you love pokemon foot porn, clear your cache. Want to know more?
Complete History of the NBA – Find Your Team’s
Click here to see how your team did historically
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Roller Coaster Patents
This site shows various roller coaster patents.
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Live Music Archive and other sites.
If you are looking for recordings of live bands, this is one great source! Here, for example, is a fun Umphrey’s McGee show from 6/28/2015. You can stream it: Everybody’s chilling on the front porch. How am I supposed to live?
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My review of The Martian
The Martian by Andy WeirMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Yeah, this was a great romp. Good story, well told, and left me dreaming of space travel. It’s really rare to find a good science-fiction book that relies on good science, but it sure is a pleasure when it happens, and it’s done right. The
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The Deed of Paksennarion – my review on Goodreads
Such a good book. One that I fought with, but came out loving it even more because of the challenge. Do you want to see how to do polytheistic cultures? The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth MoonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s pretty hard to talk about a book of over 1000 pages that
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Animal Collective Live At 9:30 Club Released
It sounds great. Here’s the track listing: Live at 9:30: 1. Amanita 2. Did You See the Words 3. Honeycomb 4. My Girls 5. Moonjock 6. New Town Burnout 7. I Think I Can 8. Pulleys 9. What Would I Want? Sky 10. Peacebone 11. Monkey Riches 12. Brothersport 13. The Purple Bottle
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I am a Goodreads Author now.
Here is a link to my Goodreads author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14247287.Michael_Gouker The best part is the photo I use so I’ll reprint it here: This was a gift from Roger Misteli and Sandra Just! 🙂 That’s a real picture of me eating wasabi.
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Pato Stays!
Alexandre Pato vai ficar no São Paulo FC pelo menos até Dezembro 31. Pato stays in SP! 🙂
GMT Project 500 Mentioned on 538.Com
This is about Kickstarter crowdfunding of board games: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/crowdfunding-is-driving-a-196-million-board-game-renaissance/ Project 500 is a GMT Games program that gets pledges for games and then publishes: http://www.gmtgames.com/s-2-p500.aspx
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Higgs Particle Discussion
Brian Greene and Lawrence Krauss discuss the Higgs Particle and the Higgs Field. The original video was Dec 13, 2012. The Higgs Field gives all particles mass. Particles with more mass have more interaction with the Higgs Particle.
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