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Michael's Friday of Awesome - The Mouseion
November 8, 2019
In the belief that every mouse has a tale, oldmouse.com intends to track the evolution of the computer mouse and its kin along its zig-zag trail of human...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Australian Bird of the Year 2019
November 1, 2019
Vote for your favourite Australian bird of 2019 from our list of 50 birds – if your favourite is not included, you can nominate it. At the end of the first...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Grouch
October 24, 2019
𝘗𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦. #SNLhttps://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1183237058963398658 For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider subscribing so...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Garage Sale Trail 2019
October 17, 2019
ONE BIG WEEKEND OF GARAGE SALESPUT SECONDHAND FIRST ON 19 & 20 OCTOBERhttps://www.garagesaletrail.com.au/ For those receiving this from a friend or a feed,...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Self Charging Mining Truck
October 10, 2019
The pack works with regenerative braking technology to give the eDumper an infinite driving range. Researchers haven't unlocked a long-awaited breakthrough...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Surveillance Cinema
October 4, 2019
Security cameras are such a pervasive part of contemporary culture that storytelling created from surveillance (or “found”) footage has all but become a...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Absurd Creature of the Week
September 15, 2019
"Those are parasitic worms dancing in the snail's eyes. Dancing in the snail's eyes. It's like Saturday Night Fever, only with more blindness and less chest...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 3D Printed Arrow
September 6, 2019
This arrow by mathematician and sculptor Kokichi Sugihara can't point left. Here's how it works: It's 3D-printed with a bunch of curves our brains don't...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - B-box
August 16, 2019
B-box: 1st Ever Hive Designed For Home BeekeepingSafe, Simple, Urban Friendly. The game-changer for backyard or balcony...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Apollo-11
July 26, 2019
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules.https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 For those receiving this...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Contronyms
July 19, 2019
Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the agency’s oversight, the corporation’s behaviour was sanctioned.” Does that mean, 'Because the agency...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Lights at Sea
July 5, 2019
This map shows all the blinking beacons from OpenStreetMap.More specifically, it asks the Overpass API for all elements with an seamark:light:sequence...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Be Internet Awesome
June 28, 2019
To make the most of the Internet, kids need to be prepared to make smart decisions. Be Internet Awesome teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Web Design in 4 Minutes
June 14, 2019
Let's say you have a product, a portfolio, or just an idea you want to share with everyone on your own website. Before you publish it on the internet, you...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Electricity Map
June 7, 2019
The Electricity Map is developed and maintained by Tomorrow, a small Danish/French start-up company. Our goal is to help humanity reach a sustainable state...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Specials Archive
May 31, 2019
All the Aldi special buys worldwidehttp://offers.kd2.org/ For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out -...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Pint of Science
May 24, 2019
Out of the lab and into the localPint of Science Australia runs events to bring researchers across all fields of science, technology, engineering,...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Picture of a Single Atom
May 17, 2019
An image of a single positively-charged strontium atom, held near motionless by electric fields, has won the overall prize in a national science photography...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - Skittles
May 9, 2019
So, on 12 January of this year, I started buying boxes of packs of Skittles. This past week, “only” 82 days, 13 boxes, 468 packs, and 27,740 individual...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 1/3/2019
February 28, 2019
Not a single face produced is that of a real person!https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 8/2/2019
February 7, 2019
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNAhttps://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/ For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 1/2/2019
January 31, 2019
Imagine taking a sip of your hot coffee or tea, only to come across a sugary skull peering out at you through the dark liquid. In a sleepy morning haze, such...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 18/1/2019
January 18, 2019
It is hard to convey that it is a photograph that was completed the subway all routes in Tokyo in the PLA at last, but it is compelling when I look up...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 11/1/2019
January 10, 2019
Two new Australian shows, at 17 and 14 hours each, join a month-long program dedicated to watching time pass.https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 4/1/2019
January 4, 2019
Remove Image Background For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out - it's free and you'll only ever...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 28/12/2018
December 27, 2018
Objective To determine if using a parachute prevents death or major traumatic injury when jumping from an aircraft.Via thebmj For those receiving this from a...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 21/12/2018
December 21, 2018
A team of researchers has managed to build the first aircraft powered by an ionic wind, a propulsion system that requires no moving...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 14/12/2018
December 14, 2018
Apparently it's Instagram's fault. For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out - it's free and you'll...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 9/11/2018
November 9, 2018
Spider-dog, spider-dog, does whatever a spider-dog does ... For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 26/10/2018
October 26, 2018
Investigate Your Senses. Discover how you perceive, and fail to perceive, the world around you. Goodbye productivity. For those receiving this from a friend...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 19/10/2018
October 18, 2018
Sans Forgetica is a downloadable font that is scientifically designed to help you remember your study notes. For those receiving this from a friend or a...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 12/10/2018
October 11, 2018
Glasses that block out the screens around you. From Wired:Then he popped out the lenses in a pair of cheap sunglasses and replaced them with the film....
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 5/10/2018
October 4, 2018
An injured wild Eastern box turtle at The Maryland Zoo is getting some help thanks to LEGO bricks.BTW, if you search Google Images for "turtle lego...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 21/9/2018
September 20, 2018
A tormented mother living in Bramford Road with her two young children has been woken on an almost nightly basis by a tinny, distant rendition of ‘It’s...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 14/9/2018
September 14, 2018
Famous worldwide as the painter of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) is also renowned for his notebooks in which he...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 7/9/2018
September 7, 2018
Next level balloon animalsFor those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out - it's only 1 email per week on a...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 24/8/2018
August 24, 2018
Quite possibly the only positive thing to come out of our current political crisis. For those receiving this from a friend or a feed, consider subscribing so...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 10/8/2018
August 10, 2018
I'm not a huge fan of Instagram, and I don't have account, but if I did this would be one of the few accounts that I'd actually follow - Insta Repeat - a...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 3/8/2018
August 2, 2018
What's not awesome about paintings of birds with titles such as "I WILL PUT YOU DOWN AS A SOFT MAYBE", "THE 56-ACRE NO-KILL SANCTUARY FOR OPRAH'S EX-...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 27/7/2018
July 26, 2018
Our objective was clear; to design the most efficient drive-train imaginable. Partnering with the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 20/7/2018
July 20, 2018
an entomologist rates ant emojis
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 6/7/2018
July 5, 2018
Researchers have created a series of 4D-printed plastic objects that fold themselves into predetermined shapes when heated, which they believe could be...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 29/6/2018
June 28, 2018
Fun fact: this image was taken in 1911.
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 22/6/2018
June 21, 2018
Binky is an app that does everything an app is expected to do. It’s got posts. It’s got likes. It’s got comments. It’s got the infinitely scrolling timeline...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 15/6/2018
June 14, 2018
https://www.getguesstimate.com/
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 8/6/2018
June 7, 2018
From New Atlas -Twenty years is but a blink of the eye in the lifespan of our planet, but as ever-improving satellite imagery continues to show, it is more...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 1/6/2018
May 31, 2018
Build a defensive ring or run as fast as you can - the disaster modelling that could help you survive a killer zombie outbreak in Australia I was recently...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 25/5/2018
May 24, 2018
"While lifeguards trained with a new drone, off the coast of Lennox Head, Australia, a distress signal went out. 70 seconds later, the little ripper had...
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 18/5/2018
May 17, 2018
“A tram is not just for Christmas, a tram is well and truly for life,” O’Brien said. I'm now planning my ultimate home office :-)
Michael's Friday of Awesome - 11/5/2018
May 11, 2018
Visoth Kakvei is a Cambodian artist known for his optical illusion drawings. Here, he creates "Floral Holes" on flat sheets of paper
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