Police capture crime scenes in 3D BBC news

Police forces are embracing the latest 3D-scanning technology to record crime scenes as virtual reality models. This helps them find clues, but also to immerse juries in the scene of the crime.

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Enchanted Objects

David Rose enchanted objects TED talk

Nature by numbers

• When the Spanish filmmaker and graphic designer Cristóbal Vila looks at nature, he sees numbers, and the remarkable elegance of mathematics. The theorems and geometric equations that explain natural phenomena – such as the shape of an insect’s eye, or the structure of a seashell – come to life in this short documentary, and simultaneously bring beauty to mathematics and logic to nature. Uniting music and animation with mathematics,Nature by Numbers is a sensory science film, an immersion in the world of the minute and microscopic, and an exciting introduction to some of the great geometric and scientific concepts.

14-year-olds find manual online, hack an ATM during their school lunch hour

Two 14-year-old Canadian boys almost got into trouble last Wednesday, but somebody wrote them a nice note explaining that they were late getting back from lunch because they had hacked the bejeezus out of an ATM.

The note began thusly:

Please excuse Mr. Caleb Turon and Matthew Hewlett for being late during their lunch hour due to assisting [Bank of Montreal] with security.

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