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Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
Video of the Week #63 October 3rd, 2012:
From: Watch the Most Amazing Lego Contraption Ever by Michael Moyer at Observations.
Source: Akiyuki
First there was the video of the LEGO version of the Antikythera Mechanism—an ancient Greek computing device found in a shipwreck in 1901 used to calculate the positions of astronomical bodies with extraordinary precision. This new device does little more than move plastic balls from one place to another, but we relish its sheer complexity. The machine took 600 hours to make and moves the balls around a 31-meter-long pathway.
About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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Link to thisI feel like this is a good article but i got bored watching the video
Link to thisI think this blog should have been different with more information.It would have been better if there was different things in the video like telling us what is going on. If there were new and more information this would have been a more interesting.
Link to thisRather than having explanation, look and THINK. This is a good mental exercise, figuring out just what is going on. Science is about thinking, not having the thinking done for you. With that approach this video is anything but boring!
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