+ 3D Printing – Bre Pettis Interview
Bre Prettis is one of the creators behind MakerBot – a low-cost 3D printer that uses plastic filament to create anything you can dream up.
“Right now we have a way of distributing and manufacturing products that is completely alien, compared to what people were doing 100 years back. We shop for things, often online, and we find the thing that most suits us. We order it. It was probably built very far away, and it ends up getting shipped to some other place and some other place and some other place before it comes to you. Well, it doesn’t have to be like that. You could just shop for something online, download a file, and print it out at home on your 3D printer.”
Full Interview HERE. (via DesignGlut)
+ Interesting People
I didn’t know about this until right now but google reader, which is what I use to read blogs, has a section where they show you what blogs some really interesting people subscribe to.
I subscribed to Thomas Friedman (NY Times foreign-affairs columnist)and Jason Kottke (runs a huge blog, kottke.org).
Check out the rest HERE.
+ Best of Wikipedia
“A twice-daily updated collection of some of the best reading on Wikipedia.”
A couple of my favorites:
Mary Toft hoaxed doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. The film depicts and discusses, without going into much technical detail, a series of medical experiments. It closes with a dog brought to clinical death by draining all blood from it, leaving it for ten minutes, then connecting it to a heart-lung machine. After several minutes, the heart fibrillates, then restarts a normal rhythm.
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