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Cities Constructed Entirely of Old Computer Parts

Image via Agora Gallery Artist Franco Recchia has put old computer parts to good use by creating impressive cityscapes with them. While they are a tribute to modern creation and human ingenuity, they could also be seen as something slightly more Wall-E-esque. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cities Constructed Entirely of Old Computer Parts

Sustainable Cabin is Homage to Thoreau, Le Corbusier

Image credit Upe Flueckiger via Mocoloco “What’s the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” That quote from Henry David Thoreau is one of the inspirations for the Sustainable Cabin, designed by Upe Flueckiger and students of the College of Architecture, the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. Another inspiration is

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One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly-perhaps illegally-saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens. http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans added by: insaintity

Why are so many countries ahead of the US in Math and Science?

Now that the American economy is no longer based on manufacturing, what are some of the barriers for the next generation in acquiring enough knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)? added by: danielacapistrano

Our Commenters of the Week Get to Build Their Own Provocative Bret!

This week’s “Commenters of the Week” prize is designed specifically for our engineering friends. Have you found yourself reading about a provocative “Bret” on Movieline — whether he’s a porn-loving diabetic on the mend or an iconic author/screenwriter who doesn’t care for female directors — and thought, “You know, I could construct an even more incendiary Bret — if only I had the means .” Well, Movieline is giving you access to its garage of tools, blueprints, soundbite instruction guides and Casio voice boxes. Your Bret will be as bandanna-loving or American Psycho -imagining as the real thing. So, who wins?

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Li Jinyan picture

Li Jinyan, 40, is accused of touching the left buttocks of the woman in a room at Block N4 on Sept 11 last year. Li Jinyan is born in China and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the National University of Defence Technology, Changsha in 1991. In 1994, he obtained a Masters in Engineering in Computer Science from the Hebei University of Technology. A professor has been charged with molesting a 22-year-old student at Nanyang Technological University. He was charged a wee

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