salk institute, adjacent to UC San Diego in La Jolla, CA

omg yes

not exactly what you requested, but gifs of informercials: http://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthes…

Any pointers on how to pronounce "Rdio" in real life? I know what it's going for, but I'd feel like kind of a dumbass asking people if they've heard of this sweet new music service called "radio". The other alternatives are "Are dio" (sounds like "rodeo", yee haw!) and "are aye dee oh" which sounds like it belongs in…

I guess this was inevitable:

You are correct in saying that we do not notice the speed at which the earth is spinning because we are maintaining our velocity (no acceleration, therefore no force.)

This is an example of a slow sand filter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_sand…) and they are awesome!

The larger rocks serve as a support layer for the fine sand; the top layer is doing all the filtering. This is a fairly common water filtration setup, look up "slow sand filters."

Right around when I started working there, so probably summer 2010

I did some work for this guy (cutting sensors out of a PC board) as an undergrad tech in the UCSD cleanroom. When he told me he was trying to implant them in a contact lens that would magnify when the user blinks, I was like "Sure dude, good luck getting that to work." I'm glad science proved me wrong!

400m tall according to the Smith+Gill press release: http://smithgill.com/media/pdfs/Imp…