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Yay for science.

A Rubens' tube is a pipe with holes in it. You put a flammable gas through the pipe, and then light it on fire. Kind of like the pipes in your gas-powered barbecue. 

But what happens when you play music through the tubes? These scientists in Denmark built a "Pyro Board" to find out, and made a video showing the results. The description of the video explains what's happening: "The pressure variations due to the sound waves affect the flow rate of flammable gas from the holes in the Pyro Board and therefore affect the height and colour of flames."

Obviously don't try this at home.

When you play sounds into the tubes, the air vibrations make a pattern where there's a lot of vibration in some parts, and not a lot in other parts. This affects the flow rate of the gas.

The scientists made a two-dimensional board with 2,500 holes in it for this project.

The scientists made this because they "really like the Rubens' tube, and but then we thought, 'When you put on more fire, it always gets better.'" True enough.

At first the scientists just play standing sound waves through the tubes. 

And this is what it looks like when actual music plays through the Rubens' tube. The big flames happen when big there's big bass.

Of course all this is way better when you can hear the actual music playing. Check it out:

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We've successfully engineered giant robot arms for building cars on an assembly line. But smaller mass-produced items—like electronics—still mostly rely on the nimble hands and fingers of a human. Building and controlling robots on a very small scale is still very difficult, but a company called SRI International may have found a clever solution using magnets.

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You've all seen the effect. There's a picture, but inside that picture lives a thousand little pictures that create the pigment. The effect is called a photo mosaic. And it's easier to make than you think.

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"Pink eggs" - Thanks to the natural dyeing in the concentrate of borscht gain a beautiful color and interesting, unique flavor! {recipe in Polish}

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If you had $40 million to spend on a ultra-lux vehicle, you might opt for a (pre-owned) Gulfstream V. VIPs on a tighter budget could instead pick up this decked-out Ford van, which comes complete with incredibly comfy leather seats, a Crestron home...

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‘Formula One Pit Stops 1950 & Today’, A Look At How Much Auto Racing Has Changed In 60 Years

wow. I had to watch the 2013 version twice.

Hospitals aren't always safe places.

In 2011, more than 700,000 people got an infection while they were in a U.S. hospital, according to a study released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's one out of every 25 patients. Approximately 75,000 of those patients died during their hospitalization.

That's actually an improvement since 2002, but there's clearly far to go. One simple and effective way to help stop these infections is better hygiene.

But since hand sanitizer dispensers and hand-washing stations all over hospitals are too frequently ignored, a British studio named Agency of Design has come up with an elegant solution — a sanitizer dispenser that can be fitted to door handles, as shown on Wired.

Here's how they see it working:

"We wanted to make the interaction as simple as possible, trying to make it almost subconscious," Agency of Design co-founder Rich Gilbert told Wired.

By connecting the sanitizer to a door that someone is already passing through, using it can become a habit, a natural step. "You're already holding it, so you might as well use the other hand to dispense sanitizer," Gilbert said.

The handles, designed for Altitude Medical and named PullClean, will cost $200 and will start shipping later this year.

They'll have an additional feature to help hospital administrators out: sensors connected to a web application, which will report how frequently sanitizer is dispensed, compared to how frequently the doors were opened.

Here's a video from Vimeo by Agency of Design that shows how easily germs can be picked up, and how the device will work:

PullClean from The Agency Of Design on Vimeo.

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Google has turned from a company that was disdainful of lobbying in Washington to one of the biggest lobbyists in the nation. 

The Washington Post has a big report on Google's change in attitude, which is illustrated in this chart made for us by Statista. In 2012, Google spent the second most on lobbying after General Electric. Last year, it was fifth. 

Google's lobbying has worked out well. In January 2013, after a two-year investigation, the FTC said it wouldn't bring any antitrust charges against Google for unfairly promoting its services in its search engine. Google just had to make some tiny concessions. 

Microsoft was hurt as a company when the government said it was unfairly bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Microsoft was previously able to use its size to squash its rivals. After the Internet Explorer ruling, it was cautious of using the Windows monopoly to deploy new services.

Google never had to deal with anything like that, so it can stuff Maps and Google+ into its results. It's still being watched, but so far, it's not in too much trouble. 

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Random text files can get deleted, sticky notes can go missing, but the chances that this seven-inch ceramic elephant goes missing from your desk are slim to nil—who would dare steal such a thing? And that's why it makes for the perfect spot to quickly jot notes and things that need remembering. Well, that and it functions like an erasable whiteboard.

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