A Geek Puts Pots And Pans Next To His Beakers   [Food & Drink]

If you know a cook, you know they are geeks obsessed with homemade salad dressings. But the geeks Jeff Potter talks about in “Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food’’, are people who read Wired & snipe at each other on Slashdot. His latest book blends boring recipes with interesting discussions & fun interviews with geek icons.

digitalmoto   Tue, Jul, 2010

235 Diggs, 2 Comments

Word "MEEP" Banned From US School   [Odd Stuff]

Principal Thomas Murray said the disruption was planned on Facebook. After 'repeatedly' disrupting classes by imitating Beaker from The Muppet Show and saying "meep", students at an American school have been banned...

robinbal   Sat, Nov, 2009

1406 Diggs, 303 Comments

Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1000 Chemical Reactions At Once   [General Sciences]

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands of chemical reactions, with results -- literally shrinking the lab down to the size of a thumbnail.

hellengineer   Sun, Sep, 2009

350 Diggs, 20 Comments

ECCEROBOT emulates musculoskeletal system, looks like Beaker   [Hardware]

Anthropomimetic robots. It's not something that rolls off the tongue, but the ECCEROBOT is just such a robot, and it's really a sight to behold.

BaddBrainz   Wed, Aug, 2009

320 Diggs, 40 Comments

Could New Artificial DNA Point to Alien Life?   [General Sciences]

A strange, new genetic code a lot like that found in all terrestrial life is sitting in a beaker full of oily water in a laboratory in Florida, a scientist said today, calling it the first example of an artificial chemical system that is capable of Darwinian evolution.

Burento   Sun, Feb, 2009

821 Diggs, 55 Comments