Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics
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Electronics fun
[Making sparks with a capacitor](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/capacitor_discharge_in_ac.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890)
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Geek Report: Doctor Who, Season 3
The third season of Doctor Who just finished, so here’s some quick one paragraph reviews of the episodes. Spoilers (mild) for those in Australia and the US who haven’t seen them yet.
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How many megapixels in the eye?
[576, apparently](http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html).
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Map of France
[Made up entirely of bread](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/94-gastronomic-cartography-the-france-of-breads/).
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Creepy books
A number of [creepy looking book sculptures](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/book_sculptures_1.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).
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Boy scout ingenuity
A boy scout achieved [fusion in his own backyard](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/nuclear-fusion/michigan-teenager-creates-nuclear-fusion-from-his-basement-247239.php)
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Two great tastes…
…together at last. [Guiness and Marmite](http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/26/guinness-marmite/).
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Heinlein & 100 years
[One hundred years ago](http://www.heinleincentennial.com/) today (July 7 1907) the greatest science fiction writer of all time was born. [Robert A. Heinlein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein) was a brilliant, controversial and innovative writer. But between 1939 and 1941 he wrote a set of twelve short stories that quickly established him as one of the masters of Science Fiction, with his…
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Architecture of anxiety
I would *not* live under this [building in Singapore](http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=946).
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Urban development
[People who refuse to abandon their homes](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/23/cavalcade_of_homeown.html)