April 2012
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January 2012
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Greek New Year's Cake
alexiatsotsis:
Every year Greek families bake a Vasilopita, or for lack of better English words, a Greek New Year’s cake. On New Year’s Day, families gather round to cut the crumbly almond cake into large pieces representing each member of the family, and the Holy Trinity.
You see, there is a coin baked into the cake (!), and the family member who “gets” the coin is said to have good luck...
December 2011
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October 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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April 2011
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AT-AT for America: The Dream: An AT-AT for America →
atatforamerica:
NERDS OF AMERICA:
We were once a country that made things: giantmetal cars, Hoover Dams, non-AutoTuned popular music.
But now we are stuck in an economy in limbo, surrounded by our Internets, our hipsters and our arguing politicians.
Nerds, I have a great idea to make America great…
March 2011
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October 2010
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June 2010
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Biology = Software: First Self-replicating... →
Craig Venter and his team created, completely in software, a synthesized DNA chromosome (using an existing bacteria as a template) with 1.08 Million base pairs and transplanted it into another bacterial cell with its native DNA removed. The cell then self replicated into a “blue colony”. Part of the DNA sequence could not have any errors or it would be lethal to the cell, other parts...
May 2010
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