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Homebrew Air Conditioning: It was the summer of 2005, and my student house was stiflingly hot. Fueled by a combination of too many engineering courses and too little money, I made my own air conditioner.... 13 comment(s) 
Wain's Kalideoscope Cats: Lous Wain was an artist popular for his paintings of cats in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The following pictures of cats are typically interpreted as illustrating the increasing effects of his schi... 42 comment(s) 
When Advertisers Get Lazy: Internet advertising is a strange beast. Some of the most popular ads play directly off our insecurities - that we're fat, that we're lonely, or that our penis is far too small. The immediate emotiona... 45 comment(s) 
Color and Reality: When I was a kid, I used to wonder if everyone saw the world in the same way. We can all look at the same grass, but maybe the color I called green showed up in my brain as the color my friend called ... 115 comment(s) 
The Ultimate Home Laser Show: This is probably the coolest thing I've ever made. It's quite a step up from the Five Dollar Laser Show I posted a bit back. The only logical step after building that was to drastically increase the p... 23 comment(s) 
Our Modular Minds: I believe that ultimately human consciousness can be described by a program. Now this doesn't mean we're all in the Matrix, simply that our mind is a giant seething logical machine with values that ar... 2 comment(s) 
Clever as a Fox: Sometimes we see things so often that we simply forget to ask "why are they like that?" For instance, let's take a closer look at domestic animals. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs - animals that we liv... 64 comment(s) 
Fermilab's Strange Letter - Progress: Well, now we're getting somewhere with the strange letter Fermilab received. For context, Fermilab (a theoretical physics laboratory) recieved a strange letter in code a year ago that they've now rele... 250 comment(s) 
Great Signs of Europe: Last year I traveled around Europe in search of the greatest signs known to humanity. Here's the cream of the crop.... 4 comment(s) 
Triumph of the Golden Rule: Almost every decision we make involves someone else in one way or another, and we face a constant choice. Should we take advantage of them, go for the quick score and hope we never see them again - or... 17 comment(s) 
The Five Dollar Laser Show: I was searching through YouTube and came across Dr. Altman's "Amazing Laser Music Can" which I thought was a very impressive effect for very little money. I had a spare Sunday afternoon, and decided t... 19 comment(s) 
The Ultimate Home Laser Show - Parts: Well, a concept is all very well and good, but if the parts are unaffordable or unavailable it isn't going to be much good. It took me a little while to find some good places to buy from, and here's w... 1 comment(s)
