Cadbury Eggs

Cadbury Eggs:

Stop-Motion Build of an RC Helicopter

Stop-Motion Build of an RC Helicopter:

Check out this krispy stop-motion build of a SAB Goblin RC helicopter, along with some clips of some cool stunts, including upside down flying! [via Frankie]

Carving Skulls from Computer Manuals

Carving Skulls from Computer Manuals:

Via Laughing Squid comes this paper-based sculpture done by artist Muskull Lasserre. Called “Incarnate,” it uses a stack of old computer manuals as the medium, carved out using a Dremel tool. A few process pics on Muskull’s site.
Incarnate: Three Degrees of Certainty II

Now Available - Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 Gold Bundles

Now Available - Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 Gold Bundles: Gold Bundles are now available for Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 on Steam!

Now you can grab the original Duels 2012 along with the expansion and deck packs in the Gold Game Bundle. Additionally, you can find all of the deck unlocks and foil conversions in the Gold Deck Bundle!

There are few things cuter than a baby gray whale swimming by to say hello [Video]

Wow!

There are few things cuter than a baby gray whale swimming by to say hello [Video]: Mute video, watch whales.

There are few things cuter than a baby gray whale swimming by to say hello [Video]:
Here's your daily moment of cetacean bliss. In the gray whale breeding grounds of Mexico's San Ignacio Lagoon, humans are not permitted to approach gray whales, but these 50-foot-long oceanic beasts will go out of their way to observe humans. Explains One World Ocean, "Whale watching here is highly regulated [...] rather than closely approaching the whales, they must idle their engine and wait for the whales to approach the vessel, which is a common occurrence."
In this amazing clip, a mother gray whale lifts her calf up to investigate the humans, who promptly go bonkers. And should this video pique your interest, here's some more fun with cetacean lifting.
[Via MeFi]

Math Monday: Make a Marble Run

This seems quite cool.

Math Monday: Make a Marble Run:
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

Many science museums feature a Galton board in which balls branch randomly left or right through an array of pegs and end up binned at the bottom in an approximation of a normal distribution. Here is a deterministic variation on that idea, in which there is a two-position gate at each juncture that causes each ball to go the opposite direction from the previous ball to visit the gate. If you use 64 balls, can you figure out how many will end up in each of the bins at the bottom? Karl Sims built this marble run and gives instructions on how to make your own, along with a clear explanation of its operation.

The side view below shows the tilt of the board and the final distribution of 64 marbles in the seven bins: 1, 6, 15, 20, 15, 6, 1. The mechanism forces each marble to take a different combination of the six left/right choices.

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