Current Geek! » Episodes http://currentgeek.com weekly geeky with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:41:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Current Geek Episode 190: I can make that http://currentgeek.com/2012/01/current-geek-episode-190-i-can-make-that/ http://currentgeek.com/2012/01/current-geek-episode-190-i-can-make-that/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:40:54 +0000 Scott http://currentgeek.com/?p=918 Continue reading →]]> Homebrew, 3D printed Fisher-Price record-player disc plays “Still Alive”. And a whole bunch of general talk about the maker bot, and the future of this sort of thing.

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]]> http://currentgeek.com/2012/01/current-geek-episode-190-i-can-make-that/feed/ 0 Current Geek Episode 189: Sopa on the Ropa http://currentgeek.com/2012/01/current-geek-episode-189-sopa-on-the-ropa/ http://currentgeek.com/2012/01/current-geek-episode-189-sopa-on-the-ropa/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:05:28 +0000 Scott http://currentgeek.com/?p=914 Continue reading →]]> We take a bit of a different tact today, and we get deep and dirty about the SOPA and PIPA bills that are threatening the way the internet works in some very core ways. Dig in!

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]]> http://currentgeek.com/2011/12/current-geek-episode-186-alan-moores-keyboard/feed/ 0 Current Geek Episode 185: Cave Johnson in your Cave http://currentgeek.com/2011/12/current-geek-episode-185-cave-johnson-in-your-cave/ http://currentgeek.com/2011/12/current-geek-episode-185-cave-johnson-in-your-cave/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:27:31 +0000 Scott http://currentgeek.com/?p=906 Continue reading →]]> Think Geek gets their Portal action on! Great stuff for Christmas!

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]]> http://currentgeek.com/2011/12/current-geek-episode-185-cave-johnson-in-your-cave/feed/ 0 Current Geek Episode 184: Where’s Venkman? http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-184-wheres-venkman/ http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-184-wheres-venkman/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:37:10 +0000 Scott http://currentgeek.com/?p=903 Continue reading →]]> If Ghostbusters was a Dr Seuss book
DrFaustusAU, whom you’ll remember from this autumn’s Dr Seuss meets Cthulhu mashup, is back at the drawing table, with There Goes A Gozerian, Ghostbuster: a reimagining of Ghostbusters as a Dr Seuss book.

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]]> http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-184-wheres-venkman/feed/ 0 Current Geek Episode 183: I like my steak medium white http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-183-i-like-my-steak-medium-white/ http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-183-i-like-my-steak-medium-white/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:05:30 +0000 Scott http://currentgeek.com/?p=900 Continue reading →]]> Lab-grown meat gets closer to reality
The little tabs on either end of each piece of meat are Velcro, used to stretch and “exercise” the muscle cells that make up this lab meat. (Some earlier attempts at growing meat in the lab failed because, without exercise, muscle tissue isn’t something that’s particularly palatable.) It’s white because there’s no blood running through it. And, to create food, you’d have to combine this single layer of muscle tissue with thousands of other layers of muscle and lab-grown fat.

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]]> http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-183-i-like-my-steak-medium-white/feed/ 0 Current Geek Episode 182: We just want the legos! http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-182-we-just-want-the-legos/ http://currentgeek.com/2011/11/current-geek-episode-182-we-just-want-the-legos/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:44:10 +0000 Scott http://currentgeek.com/?p=898 Continue reading →]]> ApocaLego: Building end-times with plastic bricks
One of my favorite Lego genres — and one for which the Lego Group will never release a set — is that of ApocaLego. Whether it’s a zombocalypse, bioplague, robot insurrection, or nuclear conflagration, builders who participate in this theme love detailing the end of days. Expect a lot of bikers, ruined buildings, and jackbooted reactionaries vainly trying to hold back the chaos. And it’s a popular theme; the ApocaLego Flickr group claims over 1,000 members with over four thousand uploads.

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The best to the worst! And everything in-between.

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This levitation effect is explained by the Meissner effect, which describes how, when a material makes the transition from its normal to its superconducting state, it actively excludes magnetic fields from its interior, leaving only a thin layer on its surface.

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