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Last Friday the word "puzzleologist" came up at our local, and I wondered aloud what a fully-Greek-rooted word with the same meaning would be, since "puzzle" didn't sound Greek. Through one turn of the internet and another (during which we found that "puzzle" is "of uncertain origin") we were led to the word metagrobologist, which I just think is an awesome word. I don't know if "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized" that I'm seeing attributed here and there to the Wall Street Journal is actually a true quote, but it sure sounds cool.
arethinn: Obi-Wan Kenobi on the cover of a mock Adobe product box, text "Adobe Wan Kenobi" (random (adobe wan kenobi))
I have not actually been into My Little Pony since I was a young girl (80s 4 LYFE!), but this is just cool:


Know When to Fold 'Em
by ~harwicks-art on deviantART
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http://youtu.be/DTaeWITW1kI

Robots making popcorn and a sandwich (see the joke at about 0:47 about the latter) without having a preset program of movements, apparently involving bits taken out of a Kinect among much fancy equipment. (Is there anything Kinect can't be hacked to do? man.) Pretty cool to watch, although the video is at 10x speed so they must be moving pretty slowly in actual time.
arethinn: Obi-Wan Kenobi on the cover of a mock Adobe product box, text "Adobe Wan Kenobi" (random (adobe wan kenobi))

Via Flickr:
Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both.

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Amazing World of Insect-Wing Color Discovered

Until now, the wing colors of many flies and wasps were dismissed as random iridescence. But they may be as distinctive and marvelous as the much-studied, much-celebrated wings of butterflies and beetles. ... Generations of biologists seem to have missed this partly because they didn’t look for it, and partly because the colors are most evident against a dark background. Against a white background, they’re invisible — which is exactly how most entomologists study transparent wings.

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