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The Blind Climber Who Sees With His Tongue 2008-07-29 20:16:00 "...Born with retinoschisis, a rare disease akin to macular degeneration, Erik Weihenmayer was sightless by age 13. Even so, he continued to pursue his dream of mountaineering, and he succeeded: In 2001 he became the first—and to date the only—blind climber to summit Mount Everest. Today he is climbing with the aid of a tool that allows him to “see” in a new way—with his tongue..."
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Last Year I Killed A Man 2008-07-29 16:04:00 "At 9.45am on Saturday, June 23 2007, I killed a man. A perfectly ordinary man, on a perfectly ordinary summer's day. CCTV pictures show him entering the station, unremarkable among all the passengers going to the West End. He waited at the front of the platform until he could hear my train approaching, then he calmly stepped down on to the tracks and looked directly at me as he waited for the imp Read more:Killed
A Hundred Possessions 2008-07-26 10:38:00 "Stuff starts to overwhelm you, says Dave Bruno, 37, an online entrepreneur who looked around his San Diego home one day last summer and realized how much his family's belongings were weighing him down. Thus began what he calls the 100 Thing Challenge. (Apparently, Bruno is so averse to excess he can't refer to 100 things in the plural.)In a country where clutter has given rise not only to profess Read more:Hundred
Glass Frog 2008-07-25 13:48:00 "While the general background colouration of most glassfrogs is primarily lime green; the ventral skin of some members of this family is transparent (species of the genus Hyalinobatrachium). The internal viscera, including the heart, liver, and digestive tract can be seen due to the translucency of the ventral skin..."*Photo Source
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Nasa Scientists Make Magnetic Fields Visible 2008-07-25 13:10:00 "Magnetic fields are invisible, at least usually. But Scientists from NASA's Space Sciences Laboratory have made them visible as 'animated photographs', using sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing..."
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Face Perception 2008-07-25 05:54:00 "There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good- will to every thing, t Read more:Perception
Drawings Under The Influence Of LSD 2008-07-21 16:44:00 "These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him..."
Reproduction Artists Produce Self-Portraits Inspired By The Masters 2008-07-20 08:44:00 "Dafen is a village surrounded by the thriving metropolis of Shenzhen, and the origin of most of the world’s reproduction oil paintings. In the popular imagination Dafen’s artists produce anonymous works for unknown customers, operating no differently than a faceless factory churning out counterfeits, replicas and nothing close to what would be considered art...The product of the collaboration Read more:Artists
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Aerogel 2008-07-20 08:31:00 "Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material. Sometimes called “frozen smoke”, aerogel is made by the supercritical drying of liquid gels of alumina, chromia, tin oxide, or carbon. It’s 99.8% empty space, which makes it look semi-transparent. Aerogel is a fantastic insulator — if you had a shield of aerogel, you could easily defend yourself from a
Yellow Drum Machine 2008-07-20 08:07:00 A robot thats purpose in life is to wander around and find objects to drum on.
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Age Maps 2008-07-20 07:55:00 Bobby Neel Adams splits portraits between the young and old self, couples and families.
Found 2008-07-20 07:36:00 "We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Anything goes..."
Language Without Numbers 2008-07-20 07:24:00 "An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team. The team, led by MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences Edward Gibson, found that members of the Piraha tribe in remote northwestern Brazil use language to express relative quantities such as "some" and "more," but not precis Read more:Numbers
The Boy With The Incredible Brain 2008-07-18 05:43:00 "In his mind, he says, each integer up to 10,000 has its own unique shape, colour, texture and feel.He can intuitively "see" results of calculations as synesthesic landscapes without using conscious mental effort, and that he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite.He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. 6 apparentl Read more:Brain
, Incredible
Shadow Artist 2008-07-18 05:25:00 "Although this may not be entirely new, this could only be done perfectly by real talented artists who see way beyond the physical and visual attributes of things utilized to create shadow art or as the pioneering optical illusion and shadow artist Shigeo Fukuda refers to as shadow sculpture..."
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Stingrays 2008-07-18 05:01:00 They have no bones, their colour can vary from grey to bright red, be plain or patterned. Adult rays can be no bigger than a human palm or have an overall length of fourteen feet, and a group of them is called a 'fever' of stingrays.
Anti-Energy Drink 2008-07-17 14:09:00 "Drank is a new anti-energy drink, designed to slow your roll. The grape-flavoured drink is fortified with melatonin, valerian root, and rose hips..."
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, Energy
The Nietzsche Family Circus 2008-07-17 13:30:00 When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."The NietzscheFamilyCircus
pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote."
Sunset On Mars 2008-07-16 13:24:00 "On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol."
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Elephant Painting 2008-07-14 12:19:00 "Bull elephant Noppakhao paints a picture of another elephant in Ayutthaya province, Thailand"
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The Boy Who See's With Sound 2008-07-14 08:37:00 First part of documentary about Ben Underwood, a boy that lost his eyes to cancer and has taught himself to see with sound.
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Polaroid Everyday Until He Died 2008-07-14 08:21:00 An article on Jamie Livingston, a man who took a polaroid every day for 18 years until his death on October 25th, 1997.Archive of polaroids, and a blog detailing the project.
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Medusa Chandelier 2008-07-10 17:53:00 "Solo Exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery in New York, November 2006, of 3 large chandelier like structures, made of cast silicone rubber. Based on 19th century engravings of jellyfish, by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. Largest measures 9ft in diameter."
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Radioactive Fungi 2008-08-11 17:15:00 "...Sitting at the centre of the exclusion zone, the damaged reactor unit is encased in a steel and cement sarcophagus. It's a deathly tomb that plays host to about 200 tonnes of melted radioactive fuel, and is swarming with radioactive dust. But it's also the abode of some very hardy fungi which researchers believe aren't just tolerating the severe radiation, but actually harnessing its energy t Read more:Radioactive
C'était Un Rendez-Vous 2008-08-03 07:58:00 "The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning (05:30hrs), accompanied by sounds of a high-revving engine, gear changes and squealing tires. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an onboard view from an unseen car exiting up on a ramp to Avenue Foch.Well known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, and Place Read more:Rendez
Swim With Jellyfish 2008-08-01 09:08:00 "Jellyfish
Lake is a well-known dive site in the Pacific island of Palau. It is one of the rock islands, a series of small, rocky, uninhabited archipelagos off the coast of Koror. Jellyfish Lake is completely isolated, but in the distant past, it had an outlet to the ocean.The outlet was closed off and the high jellyfish population was isolated and started to feed on quickly-reproducing algae. Con
German Town Scraps All Traffic Lights And Road Signs 2008-07-31 13:37:00 "If you find yourself crossing the road in the German
town of Bohmte, look both ways – and then perhaps check again.It has scrapped all its traffic lights and road signs in a radical experiment designed to make the streets safer. Yesterday, the local council said the scheme was a complete success.In the four weeks since the signs were ripped up, there has not been a single accident..."
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