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Past Away: Choose How You’ll Survive! (Kickstarter Campaign)
Past Away is an idea that’s been floating around in the back of my head for a while now. I wanted to do a motion comic, but not like most of the motion comics I’ve seen in that I didn’t … Continue reading
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Hong Kong residents express ‘concern’ as giant inflatable rubber duck found deflated in harbour_
A world famous giant inflatable rubber duck has been found deflated in a harbour in Hong Kong. At the moment no one is quite sure what caused the massive yellow duck to lose all its air as it sat in … Continue reading
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Escalators of Tokyo: a Visual Encyclopedia of a City’s Moving Staircases_
Escalators that curve. Escalators that glow. Quadruple-decker, gold-plated, Tron-themed escalators. The moving staircase may have been an American invention, but it’s the Japanese who have really perfected them. Tokyo Escalator, a blog devoted to the city’s many variations on a … Continue reading
Posted in Architeture, Art, Books, Culture, Design, Fashion_, Information, Japanese, Photography, Science, Social, Technology, World
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Inorganic Flora, A Collection of Detailed Botanical Blueprints_
Botanist and designer Macoto Murayama has created “Inorganic Flora,” a collection of intricate blueprints of numerous flowers. Murayama buys different flowers from roadside stands and then dissects, photographs, and sketches them, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Then he creates detailed digital … Continue reading
These 3-D Printed Speakers Put On a Dazzling Light Show_
Like these speakers? You can’t have them. The speakers are one-of-a-kind, 3-D printed on an Objet Connex 500 at Autodesk and endowed with an audioreactive LED system by LumiGeek, a new company that makes Arduino-compatible microcontrollers for an LED development … Continue reading
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Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars_
Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? There’s a reason for that, and it has to do with the chemistry of dying stars. Seriously. Yonatan Zunger is a Google employee who decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Design, Information, Nature, News Worthy, Philosophy, San Francisco, Science, Social, Space, Technology
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Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed by construction company in Belize_
One of the oldest and most famous Mayan pyramids has been destroyed by a construction company in Belize, while digging for crushed rock for a road they were building. The authorities reported on Monday that the company was using bulldozers … Continue reading
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What Is It About Bees And Hexagons?
Solved! A bee-buzzing, honey-licking 2,000-year-old mystery that begins here, with this beehive. Look at the honeycomb in the photo and ask yourself: (I know you’ve been wondering this all your life, but have been too shy to ask out loud … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art, Culture, Design, Health, Information, Nature, News Worthy, Science, Social
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So lifelike…
It walks like it shit itself_ (Link)
Posted in Animation, Art, Design, Education, gifT, Science, Technology
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Why does anything exist? Scientists find a bit of the answer_
Scientists probing the nature of antimatter have found a bit more evidence to explain why the universe is not an empty husk, although not enough to account for the billions of galaxies strewn across the cosmos. Physicists believe that equal … Continue reading
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