Mark's Curie Engine / Monochrom's love song for Lessig

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Mark's Curie Engine / Monochrom's love song for Lessig

Posted on November 15, 2007 12:02 AM | permalink

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Mad professor Mark Frauenfelder shows us how to make a Curie Effect Magnetic Heat Engine from common household items. Then, Austrian art-pranksters Monochrom sing a song of love for Stanford law prof and famed copyright reform advocate Lawrence Lessig.

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#1 posted by Anonymous , November 15, 2007 1:59 AM

At the end of the year you should have a poll to vote for the best/worst/strangest boingboing TV.

ps. any chance the player could be improved to double the video size (ie. zoom) I can't believe it's 2007 and we're still standardizing on quarter-VGA video size

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#2 posted by Aaron , November 15, 2007 4:38 AM

"Lessig ist lässig"

0_O

*sound of brain breaking*

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#3 posted by GuabaMan

, November 15, 2007 9:09 AM

The Curie motor experiment is fantastic! That's the kind of science all kids should learn in school.

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#4 posted by Jonathan , November 15, 2007 10:20 AM

I doubt I'm going to make it through the day without finding an excuse to utter: "That means he's cool".

Meme-worthiest episode ever.

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#5 posted by Nelson.C , November 15, 2007 12:05 PM

I misread the header of this post as "Marie Curie Engine". I keep thinking what an awesome name for a band or an SF short story this would be.

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#6 posted by TomHung

, November 15, 2007 2:13 PM

i liked the all the engine designs...
yet wouldn't it be much cooler to show it connected to something that would store / use the energy produced by the motion.

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#7 posted by nex , November 15, 2007 5:10 PM

Hehe ... at the very end, they're saying "Xeni is going to kill us [for this]." -- in case anyone was wondering.

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#8 posted by Anonymous , November 16, 2007 2:39 AM

Does anyone know what kind of machine was used for the melody of that song?? I'm in love with it

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#9 posted by larf , November 17, 2007 1:43 AM

Monochrom really *rock*!
They have such a huge output of hilarious stuff!

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#10 posted by devophill

, November 17, 2007 5:25 AM