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Western spotted skunk

Hooded skunk

Yellow-throated Marten

Wolverine

Archive for November, 2011

Links for November 2011

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Nepotism and wealth go together like father and son

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US corporate tax rates:

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Revenue Statistics of O.E.C.D. Member Countries, 2010, Source

Polyvinyl alcohol, neat stuff

Making an inkjet nozzle with a piezo buzzer. Drop size and speed not measured. Both seem to be on the order of a µl.

Inkjet 3d printer that prints into dental power / PVA
3D DLP printer build log. What is being built is unclear.
Tests of UV curing resins for 3D printing

Titan landing

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

At Windycon, I went to a talk by Christian Ready from the Space Telescope Science Institute on the solar system and saw pictures of the surface of Titan. Wow, I didn’t realize that a probe had made a landing!

Surface of Titan

The surface of Titan as seen by Huygens after its landing on January 14, 2005. (credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)