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A jar containing two of Galileo's missing fingers has been located. The jar containing the digits has been missing for more than a century. An individual purchased them at auction and delivered them to the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy. The two fingers will join a third ...
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In 1954, LIFE magazine sent their movies editor Mary Leatherbee and photographer Peter Stackpole to the Bahamas where Disney was filming 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. See a marvelous gallery of photos over at the LIFE site. Above, the film's director Richard Flesicher. "These distinctive ...
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Rocky & Balls, my favorite female uke-playing duet, recorded another song about facial hair. This one is for charity.
The proceeds will go to The Prostate Cancer Charity and we would love it if you could all buy a copy since it is for a very very very good cause!
In addition, we will keep a ...
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Mike sez, "Bob Altemeyer's excellent book 'The Authoritarians' is online in full pdf format. It's a result of 30+ years of research into what he calls 'right-wing authoritarianism'- right in the sense of 'might makes' rather than 'opposite of left'. It's a fascinating explanation of how the ...
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Tom Gauld, author of the astounding The Gigantic Robot book, has a new print available at Buenvaventura Press, called "Characters for an Epic Tale."
9.5 x 12.5 inches, 2 colors [note the apparition, done in a gray spot-color -- Mark] , letterpress printed on Hahnemühle Mould-made Ingres ...
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have (hot, natch) particle-on-particle action. If the time-traveling, LHC-hating Higgs boson particles are really out there, they don't have a whole lot of time to get together another baked goods-based offensive.
The first protons collided in the Large Hadron ...
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Carbon/Silicon (a band fronted by The Clash's Mick Jones and Generation X's Tony James) has a new album called The Carbon Bubble . They are giving it away in the MP3 format on their site.
Carbon/Silicon's The Carbon Bubble album
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If you find yourself at a Fry's in California, you might see one of these handsome Maker Shed kiosks. The Make team did a great job coming up with an attractive kiosk that took up just 4 square feet of floor space.
Gareth writes: "We think this is big news, not only for Maker Media, but ...
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Researchers at UC San Diego say that being covered in Staphylococci bacteria "blocked a vital step in a cascade of events that led to inflammation," after an injury.
By studying mice and human cells, they found the harmless bacteria did this by making a molecule called lipoteichoic acid or ...
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Northwestern economics professor Jeff Ely has a fun post on his blog about the economics of pinball:
In 1986, Williams High Speed changed the economics of pinball forever. Pinball developers began to see how they could take advantage of programmable software to monitor, incentivize, and ...
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A 65-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were charged last week with trying to sell six fake Warhol pieces to a collector. The couple told the collector that the subject of the art was Mathew Baldwin, one of the famous Baldwin brother actors. The pieces were signed an dated in 1996.
After ...
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In this short video by C. Coy, designer Milton Glaser draws a picture of Shakespeare while talking about the ways that drawing helps him think and perceive: "for me, drawing has always been a primary way of encountering reality."
His ideas reminding me of cartoonist Seth's short essay ...
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Chris Connors of MAKE has a post about "a new way of generating electricity with the slow moving currents found in most of the rivers and oceans of the world." (Video here .)
VIVACE is the first known device that could harness energy from most of the water currents around the globe because ...
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Good stuff out of President Obama's speech on the importance of science education. Govt. will be working with media to help kids get science literate and, more importantly, help them get that science is fun. What I'm really excited about, though, is the first annual National Lab Day (coming ...
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At around 19 seconds into this police car video, an alleged bank robber eats a piece of paper, which police say was a stick-up note. I think the guy is suppressing a grin.
Raw Dash Cam: Bank Robber Gobbles Up Holdup Note
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In Melbourne today, an angry kangaroo attacked a man while he walked his dog , cutting the owner's abdomen with its hind legs and pinning the dog underwater. The man ended the attack by jabbing the kangaroo in the throat with his elbow.
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A Spanish design firm called The Emotion Lab created a series of home furnishings inspired by things we see on the street. For example, this room lamp is based on a motorcycle side mirror. Also: a coat hanger reminiscent of antennas, and bookshelves inspired by scaffolding.
The Emotion Lab ...
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A Spanish design firm called The Emotion Lab created a series of home furnishings inspired by things we see on the street. For example, this room lamp is based on mirrors that let motorists see around corners. Also: a coat hanger reminiscent of antennas, and bookshelves inspired by ...
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The true magic of LittleBigPlanet -- the PS3 debut from former Lionhead designers at then upstart Media Molecule -- wasn't fully understood until the game was in our collective hands for some time after its initial release.
What was then (mis-)understood as the videogame that would let ...
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The Plum Song is the newest music video created by Omodaka , the Japanese experimental electropop group that describes itself as a "mutational fusion of music and motion graphics." It features the voice of folk singer Akiko Omodaka and art direction by Teppei Maki, and pays homage to the ...
