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Mind-Melter of the Day
It turns out that if you divide 1 by 998,001 you get all three-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order.
Except for 998.
(via Futility Closet)
Electricity Field Puts Out Fires
TIME Magazine highlighted a DARPA-developed fire-suppression technology naming it among the 50 best inventions of 2011. Researchers focused on electricity as possible safe and environmentally friendly means to fight fire. Fire in a combat vehicle, aboard a ship or other confined space such as an airplane cockpit puts warfighters at risk. Today’s fire suppression technologies are many decades old and focus largely on disrupting the chemical reactions involved in combustion by spraying water, foams or other chemicals on the flames. The key to transformative firefighting approaches may lie in the fundamentals of fire itself.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Electricity-Puts-Out-Fires-012412.aspx
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Save The Date Decoder Glasses
The Save The Date card for our wedding included a pair of red shades that you needed to put on to decode the invite like the one pictured above. It also included a request for invitees to email a picture of themselves wearing the glasses to a special email address that posted them on our wedding website. These are just a few of the photo responses we received. Interactive & fun! Thanks to Ming Thompson at Pounding Mill Press for working with us on the design.

