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✌ sorry, Do-it-yourself (DIY) projects entwine artistry and practicality. Create your own plans. Apply your mental fortitude. Add some elbow grease, and at the end, you're left with the fruits ofyour own hard work and flawless planning. Well, that's the idea, anyway.
And when it comes to DIY projects, no one does it quite like nerds. You know exactly what we mean – the people who love to slaveover minutia until they've perfected their projects, whether it's a homebrew computer or self-programmed smartphone app.
For you and your friends, we've rounded up 10 of our favorite nerdy DIYprojects. Some of these will cost you some dough and require serious time to complete. Others are simple, fun, nearly free and demand only your unwavering dedication to completely nerding out.This Venus flytrap is a bit too small to swallow a human whole. But insects should watch out.
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In the mid-1800s, the story of a man-eating tree captured widespreadattention. In a report he wrote for the South Australian Register, Carl Liche, a German explorer, claimed that while exploring Madagascar, he'd witnessed a woman climb the trunk of a large plant and drink itsnectar. When the plant sensed her presence, it captured her with its tentacles and pulled her into its body.
One hundred years later, a 1950s science writer debunked the legend, asserting that notonly was there no such tree, but that no one by name of Carl Liche had ever explored Madagascar.
While a tentacle-wielding, man-consuming tree may not exist, a scaled-down version of such a plant does.The man-eating tree of Madagascar may have been an exaggeration of the pitcher plants that grow in Madagascar, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia and other hot and humid, low-lying areas. The largest ofthe pitcher plants is known as Nepenthes, and this plant does capture small vermin and lizards in its pitchers (or cupped leaves).
The pitcher plant creates a substance that coats the inside of its...
And when it comes to DIY projects, no one does it quite like nerds. You know exactly what we mean – the people who love to slaveover minutia until they've perfected their projects, whether it's a homebrew computer or self-programmed smartphone app.
For you and your friends, we've rounded up 10 of our favorite nerdy DIYprojects. Some of these will cost you some dough and require serious time to complete. Others are simple, fun, nearly free and demand only your unwavering dedication to completely nerding out.This Venus flytrap is a bit too small to swallow a human whole. But insects should watch out.
Joseph Devenney/Getty Images
In the mid-1800s, the story of a man-eating tree captured widespreadattention. In a report he wrote for the South Australian Register, Carl Liche, a German explorer, claimed that while exploring Madagascar, he'd witnessed a woman climb the trunk of a large plant and drink itsnectar. When the plant sensed her presence, it captured her with its tentacles and pulled her into its body.
One hundred years later, a 1950s science writer debunked the legend, asserting that notonly was there no such tree, but that no one by name of Carl Liche had ever explored Madagascar.
While a tentacle-wielding, man-consuming tree may not exist, a scaled-down version of such a plant does.The man-eating tree of Madagascar may have been an exaggeration of the pitcher plants that grow in Madagascar, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia and other hot and humid, low-lying areas. The largest ofthe pitcher plants is known as Nepenthes, and this plant does capture small vermin and lizards in its pitchers (or cupped leaves).
The pitcher plant creates a substance that coats the inside of its...
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