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- Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014) http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2014/02/_thats_one_of_t.php 35 comments
- Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_love_a_ta.php 14 comments
- Study: Teams work best when members are physically close together http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2011/01/_when_i_wrote_a.php 32 comments
- Why "trending topics" are so spectacularly useless http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2010/01/the_problem_wit.php 9 comments
- 41% of museums don't know how dogs actually walk http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2009/02/41_of_museums_d.php 2 comments
- At Amherst college, 1% of first-year students have landlines, 99% have Facebook accounts http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/09/_every_year_pet.php 10 comments
- Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2014/02/_thats_one_of_t.php 3 comments books
- Would you use crowdfunding to make your game copyright-free? http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/06/the_ransom_mode.php 20 comments gamedev
- sex chat bots that pass the turing test? http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2011/05/lets_get_this_p.php 117 comments programming
- Using big words needlessly makes you seem stupider http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/04/study_using_big.php 59 comments books
- weird, inch-wide single-celled creatures discovered moving across the sea floor http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2009/03/beho_we_watched.php 211 comments science
- Gravtiy Probe B: Its surfaces are so smooth that were it blown up to the size of Earth, the tallest mountain would be only eight feet high. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/05/_see_that_objec.php 183 comments science
- Study: Hearing damage occurs after more than 5 minutes of full-volume listening on iPod earbuds http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2009/02/study_hearing_d.php 6 comments technology
- The Mathematics of Vampires http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/03/mathematics_pro.php 4 comments math
- Math proves that the Buffy universe harbors no more than 512 vampires. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/03/mathematics_pro.php 11 comments science
- Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/09/_every_year_pet.php 134 comments technology
- A 10-foot spinning orb to replicate Earth's magnetic field http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/09/_behold_a_30-to.php 2 comments reddit.com
- Paper explains how the "engineering mentality" produces terrorists http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/01/this_means_that.html#001728 10 comments reddit.com
- Natalie Portman is a neuroscientist http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/01/_every_once_in.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Study finds morning people are "logical", night owls are "creative" http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/08/study_finds_mor.html 5 comments reddit.com
- How to make an artificial shark uterus http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/09/so_apparently_s.html 6 comments reddit.com
- Loudness Wars Are Destroying Music http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/07/pull_out_a_viny.html 16 comments reddit.com
- Model writes book solely on the computers in Apple store http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/06/model_writes_bo.html#001522 6 comments reddit.com
- Behold! The Gillette Singularity http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/06/the_gillette_si.html 19 comments reddit.com
- Don't bother writing funny e-mails. Chances are, the recipient won't be laughing. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/06/study_people_th.html#001506 6 comments reddit.com
- Are smarter people better at ignoring things? http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/11/people_frequent.html 5 comments reddit.com