Papercraft is always a mainstay here at Geekosystem, and when we came across the environmental and biological papercraft artwork of Julie Dodd, we were mightily impressed. From illegal logging papercraft to blood cells, Dodd is a master of her, uh, craft. Check out some of her work below, and give her site a visit right away.
Just two days ago, The Walt Disney Company announced they acquired Lucasfilm, and that the next Star Wars trilogy would begin in 2015 with Episode 7. The deal was said to cost $4.05 billion, a staggering sum of money that George Lucas plans to put toward funding education.
What is perhaps the most famous equation in the world, e=mc2 (sorry, Pythagorean theorem), also happens to be incomplete. MinutePhysics is here to show you the missing pieces, which, much to the Pythagorean theorem's joy, actually employs a little a2+b2=c2, and explains the utter importance of the underrepresented p times c part of the equation. Happy learning.
The Raspberry Pi continues to be a fun, extremely inexpensive hobby. Even if you can't quite figure out what to do with one, the high-end model only costs $35, so that's well worth the investment of having a toy you aren't quite sure how to play with just yet. A Kickstarter project from Pimoroni, the team that brought us the awesome Pibow Raspberry Pi case, looks to bring us all an arcade cabinet for the Raspberry Pi.
A male birth control pill has been the subject of scientific curiosity for a while, and a new study has found that rather than killing the sperm or preventing their existence, a male contraceptive pill might be the product of preventing the sperm from swimming.
As Hurricane Sandy hit the northeastern United States last night, large swathes of New York and New Jersey lost power. This video, which captured an explosion at a Con Edison plant, would most likely explain why. If you wait through the middle, another explosion happens at the end. It was probably terrifying for the people that didn't have power since they couldn't quickly hop on the Internet and look up what just happened. Thankfully, the storm is gone, and now we all just have to wait for the clean-up.