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neatorama_blog - Immune Attack: Video Game To Teach Kids About Cell Biology
Isaac Asimov's Fantastic
Voyage
... results find that students who play the game show significant gains in confidence with the molecular science-related material and gains in their knowledge of cell biology and molecular science.
“Our most exciting results demonstrate that Immune Attack players appear more confident in their abilities to understand a diagram about white blood cells than students who did not play Immune Attack, said [Melanie] Stegman.” [...]
“The amount of detail about proteins, chemical signals and gene regulation that these 15-year-olds were devouring was amazing. Their questions were insightful. I felt like I was having a discussion with scientist colleagues,” said Stegman.
Link: Free downloadable game at the FAS | Melanie's blog post about the History of Immune Attack
Previously on Neatorama: Video Game Helps Young Patients Fight Cancer
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boingboing_net - Discontinued desktop 3D printers on the cheap
The Invision LD 3D-Modeler printer has been discontinued and is being sold off for $5,000 a throw -- it uses Laminated Object Manufacturing to produce low-rez 3D models. It's not going to let you print other printers, AK47s, high-grade pharmaceuticals, picture-perfect edible omelettes, but, as the news story notes, "this is a great system for schools or hobbyists since the cleanup process is entirely physical with no heat or chemical based secondary processing required. At $5,000 you can't do better."
$5000 Printer Available Now! (For a limited time) (Thanks, Rich!)
make_podcast - In the Maker Shed: Welcome to MAKE bundle
The Welcome to MAKE bundle is the perfect gift for this holiday season! For a limited time we are offering the Welcome to MAKE bundle at an amazing discount of $48. That's 46% off the price if you purchased these items individually.
The Welcome to MAKE bundle includes:
- A Year subscription to MAKE Magazine $34.95 value
- The Best of MAKE $34.99 value
- A Maker's Notebook $19.99 value
googleblog - Fighting fraud online: taking "Google Money" scammers to court
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overheardnyc - Hey, That's Our Line.Girl on cell: Okay, I've got to get naked for my cousin. Bye!
Random passerby: Say what?
--3rd Ave & 14th St
thrillingwonder - Link Latte 124
dictionary_wotd - solicitous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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slashdotorg - Building the Dream Google SmartbookRead more of this story at Slashdot.
neatorama_blog - World's Smallest Orchid is Only This Big: O
The blossom of the orchid is only 2.1 mm wide – approximately the size of the O in the title of this post.
American scientist Lou Jost found the tiny flower by accident among the roots of a larger plant that he had collected from the Cerro Candelaria reserve in the eastern Andes.
The petals are transparent because they are only one cell thick.
Link.
neatorama_blog - World Record Holders For Largest Food
Around the world, people constantly have the drive to be immortalized in the Guinness Book of Records. Some try to fit the most billiard balls in their mouth, while others work together to make the world’s largest food of its type. Web Urbanist has a collection of the later and the results are somehow both sickening and mouth-watering.
neatorama_blog - Harrod's Pet-A-Porter Fashion Show
Every year, Harrods holds a pet fashion show featuring stylish dogs paired with their fashionable model counterparts. The Pet Sugar slide show is fantastically entertaining.
aulifehacker - Boxee Beta Gets An Entirely New Look And Feeldiggg - WIRED.com GeekDad interviews GLEE creator Brad Falchuk.
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rogflickrfriend - (no subject)thedigitalstory - "Sideways Mini Cooper" - Grab Shot 190slashdotorg - Dead Space 2 AnnouncedRead more of this story at Slashdot.
panospacefeed - The Future
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deliciousrognet - [from stibbons] Custom boot image - Android Community Forumsdeliciousrognet - [from stibbons] [Theme] Minus for CM 4.2.7.1/Dwang v1.13 - New Status Bar and Icons Again [12-05] -scottkelby - Photoshop User TV Coming Later This Morning (I think)
The tweaked, and re-tweaked 3rd episode of the new season of Photoshop User TV will appear in this spot later today (and in iTunes shortly thereafter). We’ve been really listening to your feedback, and each week we’re trying to massage the show and get the balance and speed just right (among other things), and I think we’re getting closer.
Also, we tweaked some lighting and audio stuff as well, but the big news is that later this week (maybe on Friday) we’re releasing a special bonus “Insider’s Guide” to the show that explains what all the inside jokes are about, where they came from, the history, etc. (stuff like “Pointy, Choppy” the “horse references,” and “Jazz hands” the “Steam references” and “Blammo” and all the other stupid stuff that just won’t go away). I’ll let you guys know when the bonus episode (of sorts) goes live (maybe I’ll run it here on Friday).
Either way, please drop back by later today to catch the latest episode.
scottkelby - Photos of those IKEA Wall Hangers I Mentioned Last WeekRemember last week when I did that post about a better option from IKEA for hanging your unframed prints on the wall, that I got from Ed Loziuk (one of my blog readers)? Well, although I was able to show the actual IKEA parts (the rail and the clips), some people posted comments asking for images of what it actually looks like in use. Well, Ed was nice enough to take a couple of shots, and he let me share them here with you. Thanks once again Ed—you’re a good man! 
boingboing_net - Woman has fingerprints swapped to fool immigration'Fake fingerprint' Chinese woman fools Japan controls (via /.)Skin patches on her thumbs and index fingers were removed and then re-grafted on to the matching digits of the opposite hand.
Japanese newspapers said police had noticed that Ms Lin's fingers had unnatural scars when she was arrested last month for allegedly faking a marriage to a Japanese man.
The apparent ability of illegal migration networks to break through hi-tech controls suggests that other countries who fingerprint visitors could be equally vulnerable - not least the United States, according to BBC Asia analyst Andre Vornic.
(Image: Fingerprints, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from kevindooley's photostream)
boingboing_net - Wendy "Elfquest" Pini's artwork for the never-made "Stormbringer" movie
Law & Chaos - Wendy Pini (Thanks, Tavie!)
boingboing_net - Furniture made from reclaimed wine-barrels
Stil Novo Design (via Make)
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