The Sci-Tech Stash

Highlights

• An Atlas of The Universe
• Atomic Rocketships of the Space Patrol
• Delta Vee Map
• Explosive Decompression and Vacuum Exposure
• Hypervelocity impacts and protecting spacecraft
• SPACE EDUCATORS' HANDBOOK

• XKCD: Radiation
• Barometric Pressure vs. Altitude Table
• American Public Health Association - Leading Causes of Unintentional and Intentional Injury Mortality: United States, 2000–2009

• Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting
• Overview of early electric cars (1895-1925)
• Desmos: a free online graphing calculator

Education

• Video games help children improve literacy, communication and mental well-being, survey finds (5 September 2020)
• Report reveals young people felt less anxious and more connected to school in lockdown (24 August 2020)
• Young children would rather explore than get rewards (12 August 2020)
• We’re Striking to Save Britain’s Universities (November 2019)
• OPINION: Separating 'gifted' children hasn't led to better achievement (4 November 2019)
• Elementary-School Curriculum Is All Wrong (August 2019)
• Smart kids eventually grow up (8 June 2018)
• Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns (24 October 2014)
• Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It (October 2014)
• School Libraries Are Removing Classic Literature (27 July 2014)
• Un taux record de réussite au baccalauréat (11 July 2014)
• 5 Tips for Teaching the Tough Kids (11 June 2014)
• Why boarding schools produce bad leaders (9 June 2014)
• Infographic: 4 Ways the Internet is Making Kids Smarter (10 March 2014)
• The End of Higher Education’s Golden Age (January 2014)
• Report: 250 Million School Age Kids Can't Read (29 January 2014)
• What Finland can teach America about education (3 December 2013)
• How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses (October 2013)
• Memory in Elementary School Children Is Improved by an Unrelated Novel Experience (9 June 2013)
• Eighth grader designs standardized test that slams standardized tests (17 April 2013)
• Pourquoi nous avons besoin de jouer, partager et bidouiller la science (3 April 2013)
• The School-Less Revolution: Free Online Courses Being Considered For College Credit (14 November 2012)
• The disruption of education: How technology is helping students teach themselves (2 November 2012)
• Tomorrow’s College Will be Free: Massive Open Online Courses (22 October 2012)
• For Students, Why the Question is More Important Than the Answer (October 2012)
• 4 Ways High School Makes You Hate Reading (2 October 2012)
• Schools Ditch The Classroom To Put Play Back In Education (31 May 2012)
• Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading (20 January 2012)

• If Your University’s Administration Ran a Polar Expedition
• UCSC Grad Students Are on Strike for a Living Wage
• There is a Literacy Crisis in the United Kingdom
• What's Really Wrong With Education in the US?
• The great didactic of John Amos Comenius : Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming
• Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

Transportation disaster

• Driving the 2021 Cadillac Escalade was one of the most stressful experiences of my life (19 October 2020)
• Qantas scenic flight to nowhere could be fastest selling flight in airline's history (18 September 2020)
• Singapour: des «vols vers nulle part» pour sauver le secteur aérien (14 September 2020)
• « Les SUV sont des machines à tuer » (2 September 2020)
• Non, la voiture électrique n’est pas écologique (1 September 2020)
• American SUVs are Too Dangerous for UK Roads, UK Safety Experts Say (22 July 2020)
• Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found (February 2020)
• Self-Driving Uber in Crash Wasn’t Programmed to Spot Jaywalkers (5 November 2019)
• Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars (10 April 2019)
• The Eastland Disaster Killed More Passengers Than the Titanic and the Lusitania. Why Has It Been Forgotten? (27 October 2014): Chicago’s working poor were expecting a day in luxury. They instead faced a horrific calamity on Lake Michigan
• Normalization of Deviance (14 February 2014)

• The herald of disaster, or why you should welcome regulations
• The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before It Sank
• The Navy Installed Touch-screen Steering Systems To Save Money. Ten Sailors Paid With Their Lives
• Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
• Autonomous cars are not ready for public deployment
• Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’
• Tesla Autopilot crash driver 'was playing video game'
• Abandoned Russian Cruise Ship Adrift

Health

• People Who Eat Chili Pepper May Live Longer – Reduced Risk of Dying From Cardiovascular Disease or Cancer (9 November 2020)
• Study supports link between traffic-related air pollution and mental disorders (24 October 2020)
• ‘It’s been so, so surreal.’ Critics of Sweden’s lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash (6 October 2020)
• Coronavirus in Africa: Five reasons why Covid-19 has been less deadly than elsewhere (8 October 2020)
• Doctors: Seattle COVID patient only third in US to be reinfected after recovering (30 September 2020)
• Coronavirus: England death count review reduces UK toll by 5,000 (12 August 2020)
• Study: Staring at Deep Red Light Can Improve Naturally Declining Vision (7 July 2020)
• CRISPR gene editing in human embryos wreaks chromosomal mayhem (25 June 2020): Three studies showing large DNA deletions and reshuffling heighten safety concerns about heritable genome editing.
• Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don't spread the virus at all? (19 May 2020)
• Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments: experts (29 April 2020)
• Iceland has tested more of its population for coronavirus than anywhere else. Here's what it learned (10 April 2020)
• FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI following positive clinical research (12 February 2020)
• Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice (9 December 2019)
• Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant (24 July 2019)
• Worry less about children's screen use, parents told (4 January 2019)
• Challenges in the Diagnosis of Magnesium Status (10 September 2018)
• Plaidophile: On chronic pain (21 June 2018)
• Lead: America’s Real Criminal Element (February 2016, via Slashdot)
• India beats the odds, beats polio (22 March 2014)
• Herbalist Who Told Diabetic Boy To Use Lavender Oil Instead Of Insulin Is Jailed For His Death

• The Real Reason to Panic About China's Plague Outbreak (16 November 2019)
• ADHD in adults can be life-threatening when left untreated: experts (17 August 2019)
• CTVT, the Tumor That Broke All the Rules (August 2019)
• What are children dying from and what can we do about it? (9 August 2019)
• Amputee can feel objects again with prosthetic arm inspired by Luke Skywalker (25 July 2019)
• Scientists Say Chemical Found in Spinach Is Basically a Steroid, Should Be Banned for Athletes (26 June 2019)
• Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout horns (June 2019)
• Anti vax movement: Russian trolls fueled anti-vaccination debate in U.S. by spreading misinformation on Twitter, study finds (21 May 2019)
• The solution to make America physically active (9 May 2019)
• Goodbye Surgery - Scientists Made Eye Drops That Dissolve Cataracts (11 February 2019)
• Tips for cold (21 January 2019)
• Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? (10 January 2019)

• Processed meat and cancer – what you need to know (26 October 2015)
• My Cyborg Ear: How a Surgeon and Titanium Cured My Lifelong Deafness (15 May 2015)
• The myopia boom (18 March 2015)
• Alcohol or Marijuana? A Pediatrician Faces the Question (17 March 2015)

• Forget prosthetic limbs, now there's artificial BLOOD: Liquid made of water, salt and protein is successfully used in mice (30 October 2013)
• Which professions have the most psychopaths? (30 October 2013)
• Fear vs. Radiation (22 October 2013)
• The lonely life of the farmer too often leads to suicide (28 September 2013)
• How to Really Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer: Why the Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked (3 June 2013)

• Bionic hand makes amputee 'feel human again' – video (8 November 2012)
• Has our war on microbes left our immune systems prone to dysfunction? (October 2012)

• Italian Gene Holds Hope for Unclogging Arteries : Medicine: A mutant protein found in one family appears to ward off heart disease despite a high-fat diet. Researchers buoyed by animal trials (17 October 1994)

2020

• Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe: A team in Paris has made the most precise measurement yet of the fine-structure constant, killing hopes for a new force of nature. (2 December 2020)
• Newly discovered Amazon rock art show the rainforest's earliest inhabitants living with giant Ice Age animals (1 December 2020)
• Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses; many mourning (1 December 2020)
• Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects (25 November 2020)
• NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope due to safety concerns (19 November 2020)
• The Theremin Is 100 Years Old; Celebrating The Spookiest Of Instruments (30 October 2020)
• What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t (27 October 2020)
• Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute (24 September 2020)
• La polio est officiellement éradiquée en Afrique, « une délivrance » (25 August 2020)
• Florida mosquitoes: 750 million genetically modified insects to be released (20 August 2020)
• Highland polar bear Hamish to leave Scotland (18 August 2020)
• How Many Planets Are There In The Solar System? (14 August 2020)
• Global Wave Discovery Ends 220-Year Search (13 August 2020): An 18th-century physicist first predicted the existence of a chorus of atmospheric waves that swoop around Earth. Scientists have finally found them.
• Mysterious Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Ceres Point to Secret Underground Ocean (10 August 2020)
• Wireless Charging Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen (6 August 2020)
• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels (August 2020)
• These ancient seafloor microbes woke up after over 100 million years (28 July 2020): Scientists revived long-dormant organisms with carbon and nitrogen in the lab
• Scientists achieve first complete assembly of human X chromosome (14 July 2020)
• There Was a Chimpanzee War in the 1970s (8 July 2020)
• Urban foxes 'more like domesticated dogs' (3 June 2020)
• Scientists Discover 33 Creatures Trapped In A Poisonous Cave That's Been Sealed Off For Million Of Years (2 June 2020)
• Global soil library will help us better know the living skin of planet Earth (29 April 2020)
• Coronavirus lockdowns have changed the way Earth moves (31 March 2020)
• A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial (24 March 2020)
• Volunteers produce 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments (17 March 2020)
• Ideal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at All (11 March 2020)
• Loggerhead turtle's journey tracked 37,000km from Cape Town in South Africa to Australia (6 March 2020)
• Coronavirus: The race to find the source in wildlife (25 February 2020)
• New Horizons spacecraft 'alters theory of planet formation' (13 February 2020)
• NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth (7 February 2020)
• Biologist Explains Biological Sex (29 January 2020)
• World First: Genetically Engineered Moth Is Released Into an Open Field (29 January 2020)
• FactChecking the coronavirus (27 January 2020)

2019

• Thomas Dolby's Very Different View Of Progress (16 December 2019)
• Another New Form of Carbon – It’s A Weird One (15 November 2019)
• New Horizons Kuiper Belt Flyby Object Officially Named 'Arrokoth' (12 November 2019)
• There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structure (11 November 2019)
• We build a lithium-ion car battery (31 October 2019)
• Pigs recorded using tools for the first time (October 2019)
• Neanderthal glue was a bigger deal than we thought (October 2019)
• Beware of Cranks (8 October 2019)
• A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming (24 September 2019)
• The Iconic Electric Eel Is Actually Three Species (September 2019)
• The Gravitational-Wave "Revolution" Is Underway (12 September 2019)
• How Antarctica’s Only Native Insect Survives the Freezing Temperatures (10 September 2019)
• How a Cooling Vest Invented by a Furry Made Its Way Into the U.S. Military (20 August 2019)
• 'World's oldest webcam' to be switched off (20 August 2019)
• NASA's Voyagers Grow Weaker Each Year (August 2019)
• Reflections on a Space Race (21 July 2019)
• An Elegiac Moon Landing Anniversary (20 July 2019)
• 50 Years After Apollo 11: Where's Our Moon City? (July 2019)
• Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem (5 July 2019)
• Corsica's 'cat-fox': On the trail of what may be a new species (June 2019)
• A New Metal Foam Is as Bulletproof as Heavy Steel Armor, Researchers Say (6 June 2019)
• Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time (5 June 2019)
• Kiwibots win fans at UC Berkeley as they deliver fast food at slow speeds (22 May 2019)
• Physical kilogram is officially dead (20 May 2019)
• Formation of the moon brought water to Earth (May 2019)
• New species of ancient human unearthed in the Philippines (April 2019)
• The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics (10 April 2019)
• The Pikeville Cut-Through Project In Kentucky Was One Of The Largest Engineering Feats In The World (18 January 2019)
• Scientists may have seen birth of a black hole for first time ever (10 January 2019)

2018

• Number of babies born in Japan in 2018 lowest since records began; population decline the highest
• Mathematics in Games, Part 1 (18 December 2018)
• The chemistry that gives champagne its famous fizz (17 December 2018)
• The Vacuum Tube’s Many Modern-Day Uses (13 November 2018)
• Astrobiologist Tries Cooking In Antarctica At -94ºF (-70ºC), And The Result Will Crack You Up (9 October 2018)
• Astronomers find Planet Vulcan – 40 Eridani A – Right Where Star Trek Predicted it (21 September 2018)
• Hologram Concert Tours Are Now a Real Thing, Starting With Roy Orbison (19 September 2018)
• SpaceX says its BFR will fly someone around the Moon; we have questions (September 2018)
• The Automation Charade (1 August 2018)
• Speak & Spell History: Texas Instruments' Greatest Product (19 June 2018)
• Brain Scans Aren't Necessary to Confirm Trans People's Genders (31 May 2018)
• The Forgotten '80s Home Robots Trend (24 May 2018)
• The Transistor, Part 2: Out Of The Crucible
• Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency (January 2018)
• The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms 📷 (9 January 2018)

2017

• Babies may be able to link certain words and concepts, research suggests (20 November 2017)
• The problem with Nobel prizes and the myth of the lone genius (4 October 2017)
• The Closing of a Great American Dialect Project (22 September 2017)
• Therapy Drones Are Helping Injured Falcons Fly Again (31 August 2017)
• White nationalists flock to genetic ancestry tests. Some don't like the result (16 August 2017)
• How To Kill A Dinosaur In 10 Minutes (7 August 2017)
• An Artist Created Sprayprinter, A Robot That Can Paint Murals - YouTube (27 July 2017)
• I Tried Soylent. It Didn’t Go Well. (17 July 2017)
• VHS Tapes: How Archivists Are Working To Save Them (3 June 2017)
• Poor Human Olfaction is a Nineteenth Century Myth (12 May 2017)
• Spectacular collision of suns will create new star in night sky in 2022 (6 January 2017)

2016

• Bees Can Count to Four, Display Emotions, and Teach Each Other New Skills (5 October 2016)
• Has BART’s cutting-edge 1972 technology design come back to haunt it? (25 March 2016)
• The problem with a technology revolution designed primarily for men (16 March 2016)
• Power Water Networks (March 2016)
• How the Idea of a 'Normal' Person Got Invented (February 2016)
• When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (16 January 2016)
• Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all (15 January 2016)

2015

• Six Million Dollar Plant: Scientists grow cyborg roses (22 November 2015)
• The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy (October 2015)
• Study delivers bleak verdict on validity of psychology experiment results (27 August 2015)
• Chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the Stone Age (18 August 2015)
• Robot passes self-awareness test (18 July 2015)
• Kangaroos Are Lefties, and That Can Teach Us About Human Handedness (18 June 2015)
• A Brief History of the ATM (March 2015)
• Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y

2014

• plotting - How do I draw a pair of buttocks? - Mathematica Stack Exchange (25 November 2014)
• Clever Trout Match Chimps in a Cognitive Challenge (September 2014)
• I Want To Live (13 August 2014)
• Lego Technic Mechanical Seven Segment Display (7 August 2014)
• Blackest is the new black: Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can't see it... (13 July 2014)
• This Nigerian College Student Built a Wind- And Solar-Powered Car From Scraps (9 May 2014)
• Public’s Knowledge of Science and Technology (22 April 2014)
• BBC News - Artists 'have structurally different brains' (17 April 2014)
• Cheap microscopes: Yours to cut out and keep (April 2014)
• Happy birthday, Cosmonaut Valentina! (6 March 2014)
• This is what 3D printed wood looks like (25 February 2014)
• What You Learn About Tech From Watching All 456 Law & Order Episodes (February 2014)
• Where do birds sleep? Roosting in nests, water, flocks, cavities (23 January 2014)
• Old Tech, New Tech (Syria) (CW: guns; 17 January 2014)

2013

• The 18 Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2013 (27 December 2013)
• Why it's time to lay the selfish gene to rest (3 December 2013)
• Headlines from a Mathematically Literate World (2 December 2013)
• The secret world of cargo ships (10 November 2013)
• Olinguito: 'Overlooked' mammal carnivore is major discovery (15 August 2013)
• First documented report of swimming and diving in apes (14 August 2013)
• Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why (8 August 2013)
• BREAKING: Germany Sets Solar Power Record (Again) -- 23.9 GW (7 July 2013)
• The science of animal consciousness (2 July 2013)
• FYI: Does The Komodo Dragon Really Kill With A Bacteria-Filled Bite? (June 2013)
• Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (May 2013)
• Blood Falls, a "bleeding" glacier, is a natural time capsule containing a unique ecosystem (15 May 2013)
• Our Very Normal Solar System Isn't Normal Anymore (6 May 2013)
• Is Organic Better? Ask a Fruit Fly (17 April 2013)
• 5 Steps to Separate Science from Hype, No PhD Required (12 April 2013)
• Why does Easter move around so much? (28 March 2013)
• Images from Cassini's final targeted flyby of Saturn's Moon Rhea (12 March 2013)
• Micro 3D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds (5 March 2013)
• NIST Quantum Refrigerator Offers Extreme Cooling and Convenience (5 March 2013)
• “Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds (1 March 2013)
• First mind-reading implant gives rats telepathic power (28 February 2013)
• Reconstructing the Chelyabinsk meteor’s path, with Google Earth, YouTube and high-school math (February 2013)
• Quantum gas goes below absolute zero (3 January 2013)

2012

• Canadian Scientists Create Virtual Human Brain (5 December 2012)
• Walter Tschinkel's Aluminum Casts of Ant Colonies Reveals Insect Architecture (9 October 2012)
• Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians (23 July 2012)

2008-2011

• How Far Have Radio Signals Traveled From Earth? (July 2011)
• Pedal powered farms and factories: the forgotten future of the stationary bicycle (May 2011)
• Study: Neanderthals Wore Jewelry And Makeup (12 January 2010)
• A visit to the electronics markets of Shenzhen (3 March 2009)
• Slime Molds Show Surprising Degree of Intelligence (January 2009)
• Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (29 April 2008)

Older

• Earth: An Oscillator and Frequency Standard (15 July 2005)

Unsorted

• Evolving Floorplans
• The giant steam clock of Chelsea market, London
• Maps of Europe by language, religion, population density, hair & eye color, etc.
• Wind turbine Frequently Asked Questions
• Pilots Vs Maintenance Engineers
• minivan on rails, Vaser Valley Railway, Romania
• Primele Automobile Fabricate in România
• The history of Pocket Television
• Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
• UN Free & Equal | INTERSEX AWARENESS
• 5 Things I Miss About Weighing More Than 300 Pounds
• Chicken Wire Mother
• Identifying Horse Parts and Markings - For Dummies
• Douglas Adams' Speech at Digital Biota 2
• The HyperSphere, from an Artistic point of View