Humor

ArcelorMittal Orbit Unveiled in London

by Brianna Tonner on May 18, 2012

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I can’t speak for all Chicagoans, but I have always enjoyed Cloud Gate, or “The Bean,” a stainless steel structure that has graced our city landscape for six years now and provided some clever photo opportunities. To me, it is engaging and playful — a mirrored cultural marvel that distorts, pools, and paints our city [...]

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Mining Mogul Plans to Rebuild the RSS Titanic

by Brianna Tonner on May 11, 2012

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It never ceases to amaze me what people do with their extra pocket change. I couldn’t help but laugh at the announcement that a collective group of millionaires is investing in a project to mine on asteroids—including go-getter and film director, James Cameron. While I’m sure they are acting with the best intentions, I’m curious [...]

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Startup Razor-Blade Company Disrupting Market – With Killer Video

by Taras Berezowsky on April 13, 2012

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Several weeks ago, a colleague of mine who works in video production and development forwarded me a link to a company video. (How he has the time to troll around the web to find such things is beyond me.) For this particular video, however, my colleague didn’t have to troll too long or hard. That’s [...]

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Sand Flea Robot To Help US Military in Afghanistan

by Brianna Tonner on March 30, 2012

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Boston Dynamics is at it again. With help from researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the innovative engineering company, known for its work on the speedy, record-breaking Cheetah and the four-legged BigDog, which we discussed in an earlier post, has developed yet another talented metal bot: the Sand Flea. Resembling a remote control car no bigger [...]

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Operation Bad Metal Takes Out the Mafia

by Stuart Burns on March 27, 2012

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It would seem part of Italy’s financial problems stems from a vast and deeply entrenched cultural aversion to paying tax. Not that any of us like paying it — but most at least comply with the law. Not so in Italy. Last year authorities recovered around 11.5 billion euros ($15 billion), up from 3.7 billion [...]

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Chinese Steel Mills Move Into Pig Farming

by Stuart Burns on March 26, 2012

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Remember the reports of thousands of tons of missing copper apparently hoarded by Chinese pig farmers? Well, it seems the infamous pig farmers have come back in the media again for Round Two (this time, to recruit the steel mills to join in on raising porkers). A story in the FT explains how, faced with [...]

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When Viagra Viruses Attack

by Taras Berezowsky on March 8, 2012

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What’s our rule for when Viagra viruses attack? Attack right back: Source: Lisa Reisman/MetalMiner Ok, so publishing a video featuring a phallic, orange, pumpkin-chomping mechanical monster can’t really be classified as an effective counterattack. But we thought we’d throw it out there anyway. “What it the world are you writing about?” you may (rightfully) be [...]

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Commodity Volatility Comes Down to Pennies, Nickels – Literally

by Taras Berezowsky on February 17, 2012

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Source: money.cnn.com “As metal prices are extremely volatile, the delay incurred by proposing and passing legislation [to substitute nickel and copper in US coins] could result in the new compositions being outdated by the time of their enactment,” the U.S. Treasury said in its budget proposal. -Reuters “Today in Science we read the book “The [...]

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