Nov 28
Nov 28
The average temperature in Winnipeg during the winter hovers around 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit—a number most of would consider cause for hunkering down for the season. In Canada, it’s cause for parties.
Nov 28
After years of wait, it’s finally here! The first look at J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s loaded with new cool stuff: The new version of the X-Wing fighters, new characters, new storm stormtroopers, and one really cool shot of the Millennium Falcon battling TIE fighters over a desert.
Nov 28
Under the weight of online bargain hunters,even Best Buy's servers have been trampled this Black Fri
Posted in: Today's ChiliUnder the weight of online bargain hunters,even Best Buy’s servers have been trampled this Black Friday. Its site is currently suffering some severe technical difficulties because of all the traffic.
Nov 28
If a post-Thanksgiving coma has robbed you of the energy needed to watch the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer again and again, we’ve gone to the trouble of condensing the sneak peek down to eight easily ingestible animated GIFs that are perfect for over-analyzing and sharing.
Nov 28
For a limited time, Google is offering 1TB of Google Drive space for two years for free with the purchase of a new Chromebook . Buying that storage separately would set you back $240, assuming prices stay the same, so you can actually save a lot of money by buying this $120 Chromebox instead.
Nov 28
Effectively maintaining a nation’s borders requires manpower, and lots of it—especially when that nation is on bad terms with its neighbor. But rather than put its military personnel in undue danger, both Israel and South Korea have begun using this autonomous ground vehicle to secure their borders.
Nov 28
Jolla promises to give tablets cellular connection if it raises $2.5 million
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When Jolla launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the development of its tablet, the company was only aiming to make $380,000. Somewhere along the way — say the moment it reached $1 million in pledges — the people behind Jolla probably realized tha…
Nov 28
A tiny dinosaur about the size of a house cat was recently discovered in South Korea.
The dinosaur’s fossilized remains span about 11 inches, but scientists told Korea JoongAng Daily that it was likely about 20 inches long when it was alive.
“Based on the findings so far, we assume that the dinosaur is something close to a microraptor or others in the raptor genera,” Lim Jong-deock, chief curator of the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, told the news agency. “However, it’s uncertain at this stage exactly which type of dinosaur it was, and there is a chance that it is a new type that hasn’t been reported to academia as of yet.”
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An illustration of a microraptor, which the dinosaur fossil closely resembles.
The tiny dino is a theropod, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. That means it had sharp teeth and claws–only a whole lot smaller. And if it is indeed a microraptor, it would also have had four wings.
The dinosaur lived during the Cretaceous period, which ended some 66 million years ago with the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event.
“The way this dinosaur has been fossilized is unique in that it was discovered with its vertebrae connected to its ribs,” the institute told the Korea Times.
The institute also said there may be another fossilized dinosaur in the rock next to this one. Whatever the dinosaur turns out to be, it’s the first complete dinosaur skeleton found in South Korea, and among the smallest dinosaur fossils ever found in the country.
“It is difficult for a small dinosaur to become fossilized and such fossils are very rare across the world,” an unnamed researcher from the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage told Korea.net. “We need to conduct further research into whether the fossil is related to the Minisauripus, whose footprints were discovered in the southern areas of Gyeongsangnam-do.”
Nov 28
Neil deGrasse Tyson Has Adorable Advice For First-Graders, And Here's What It Is
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhat could be cuter than a conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and a first-grader?
Earlier this month, the famed astrophysicist called on six-year-old Kaitlynn Goulette to ask him a question while he was delivering a lecture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
When the young girl asked, “How can first-graders help the Earth,” Tyson didn’t tell her to recycle or invest in solar panels. Rather, he encouraged her to not lose her natural curiosity to explore the Earth that she so desperately wants to help. Check out the exchange in the YouTube video above.
“He’s just told this little girl that she too can be a scientist,” YouTube user Tiffany Henry commented on the video. “I am feeling all the joy in the world right now.”
There’s no question that children have an innate enthusiasm for science. Just watch first-and second-graders in this “Talk Nerdy To Me” episode below.
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