Five Years Ago

August 27th, 2010

The Big Picture has posted a gallery of photos from Hurricane Katrina damage: Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h). More than fifty levees were breached by its storm surge, causing massive flooding. Over 1,800 Gulf Coast [...]

New Elvis Photos Found

June 30th, 2010

Michael Lollar: Graceland archivist Angie Marchese was cataloging receipts and other paperwork from Vernon Presley’s Graceland office about two weeks ago when she found a manila envelope with three photo negatives. “Just when you think you’ve seen everything, all of a sudden there’s something new,” said Marchese. Even though I’m a native Memphian, I’m not [...]

Up Close with Apple’s Retina Display

June 14th, 2010

Robert Scoble snagged this photo of the new iPhone’s display with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II during Apple’s hands-on event at WWDC last week. It looks amazing — be sure to view the original 5616 x 3744 shot.

NASA Documents Growing Oil Spill

May 27th, 2010

Atlantis Touches Down for Last Time

May 26th, 2010

MSNBC: Atlantis returned to Earth Wednesday, wrapping up the final mission of its 25-year career. Once the shuttle program ends, the United States will rely on Russian Soyuz rockets to carry its astronauts to the International space station until a commercial US launcher can be developed. I’m sad I’m too young to remember NASA in [...]

Oil Reaches Louisiana

May 24th, 2010

The Big Picture: Over one month after the initial explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, crude oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico, and oil slicks have slowly reached as far as 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes. According to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, more than 65 miles of Louisiana’s shoreline [...]

‘House’ Season Finale Shot on Canon 5D

May 18th, 2010

Even if you don’t watch the show normally, you should see this episode for the video work. It is beautiful. There are shots all over the episode with razor-thin depths of field that were simply stunning. I would love to see more of this. Greg Yaitanes, the show’s director answered some questions about shooting with [...]

Pictures of Nashville Flood

May 3rd, 2010

The Tennessean has posted over 100 photos taken around the Nashville area of record-setting floodwater. Memphis really dodged the bullet this weekend.

Things Banned from Mythbuster Refrigerator

April 25th, 2010

Handwritten additions include: No human body parts filled with noodles. We have the same problem at the Salvation Army some days.

20 Years of Hubble

April 25th, 2010

Matt Ford at Ars Technica: In the 20 years since it has seen near total failure and has brought back some of the most important and astounding images humankind has even seen of the Universe. In celebration of Hubble’s 20 years of service, Nobel Intent has a taken a moment to look back at some [...]

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