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On November 7th, Lego announced that they would be producing a set based on Tom Poulsom’s Bird project submission to Lego Ideas. Lego did an interview with the creator of Birds (21301) where we get a peek at the set and box art. Because the set uses only existing elements in colors that were already…
On September 17, the National Archives published a seemingly routine announcement in the Federal Registrar. Couched in language about preserving records of value is a line about the destruction of records and a list of federal agencies. The CIA is one of these agencies, and its emails about waterboarding could be some of those records.…
There are about 630,000 bridges in the United States, ranging from impressive new structural creations like Margaret Hunt Hill bridge in Dallas to deteriorating slabs of concrete in desperate need repair. It’s that last growing group of bridges, ports, and highways that represent the slowing decaying infrastructure that was once the best in the world.…
The hoverboard from Back to the Future: Part II is one of the most iconic artifacts of 20th century futurism. But surprisingly, the hovering toys were originally envisioned to be much larger than what made it on screen. That’s according to John Bell, the visual effects art director on the classic 1989 film. “The early…
Last night, Michael Brown’s family renewed the call for all police officers to wear body cameras that record their interactions with people. This is smart, but like every other tool we give the police, cameras will only work the way they’re intended to if the cops don’t abuse them. In a statement following last night’s…
If you thought Santa himself was difficult to spot as he made his global rounds on Christmas Eve, there are even less confirmed sightings of his step-brother the Santaur. You’ll never see him talking to kids at shopping malls, or posing for photos in a parade. In fact his mere existence is questionable, were it…
Are you sick and tired of hitting two keys before each and every hashtag? Have you lost hours at work hunting down the # on your keyboard? Has your pinky been injured from awkward shifting positions? No? Me neither. But isn’t this little hashtag keyboard cuuuuuuuute? HashKey is an idea for a tiny one-key keyboard…
We don’t yet have time travel, but we can travel through time quickly through the power of timelapse photography. Here are your submissions to this week’s timelapse Shooting Challenge. Cocoon We have a butterfly garden and all of a sudden we had an explosion of monarch caterpillars in the milkweed. It is a little too…
Built for an architecture contest on Bricker.ru this entry by Thorin Forkbeard placed fourth overall in the voting. The angled design on the foundation, door and windows is really great. They contribute nicely to the look of disrepair in this neat little bakery. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and…
It was weird night in Times Square last night. I had just spilled out of a music show trying to catch any semi-convenient subway train back to Brooklyn. Hours earlier, a grand jury had failed to indict Darren Wilson on murder charges against Michael Brown and crowds gathered in protest, all bathed in the white…
Saturday night, I had dove breasts and braised pheasant for dinner. That’s because that morning, I’d shot them, brought them home, cleaned them on my back porch, then sat and watched as my girlfriend made them for dinner. “Dove opener’s this weekend,” my friend Scott IM’d Thursday night. We made some loose plans and he…
The bottom of a whisky glass turns out to be far more complex, beautiful, and scientifically fascinating than you might expect. These photographs of dried whisky rings taken by Phoenix-based photographer Ernie Button now inspiring physicists who study complex fluids. Whisky is, after all, a complex fluid of alcohol and water. Unlike rings from coffee,…
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It’s Thanksgiving. And that means a lot of us pretend we like turkey for a day. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, let’s celebrate that poor bird and photograph it. The Challenge Take a hero shot of your turkey. Or your tofurkey. The Technique First step, roast a turkey. Second step, let it cool a…
Big releases might be slowing down as the end of 2014 approaches, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with games quite yet – especially when there’s a new Persona title out! – considering the huge games there’s still to play. Share what you’ve been playing in this week’s edition of Tuesday Game Room! What have…
A few weeks ago, we asked you to name the worst airport in America. It was a seemingly crowded field, but in the end, there was no competition: LaGuardia won out by a landslide. And not just according to you—that’s according to experts, the governor, and even Joe Biden. Jim Venturi, a filmmaker and the…
Here’s the driver’s dream: A vehicle that sends us where we want to go, plays the music we want to hear, and allows us to communicate (within reason) with the outside world, all with minimal distraction. It’s the vision of the connected car, and it’s a promise many automakers hope to deliver for 2015. But…
The new film The Imitation Game hits theaters this weekend. But before you see Benedict Cumberbatch’s brilliant portrayal of Alan Turing on the big screen, you should definitely check out the book that the film is based on, Alan Turing: The Enigma. Today we have author Andrew Hodges joining us for a live webchat from…
The size and thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet acts as a barometer for global health but figuring out exactly how much frozen water is sitting atop the southern pole is difficult. Satellite results are often obscured by layers of snow and ice core boring requires people to brave the extreme cold to collect them.…
12 people and ten days: That’s how long the artist collective Numen / For Use says it took to create a cellophane jungle gym inside this gallery in Paris, where visitors can crawl inside their milky, transparent network like spiders on a web. How much tape did they use? Almost 30 miles. The installation at…
