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A fab picture at APOD. ‘What has happened to Saturn’s moon Iapetus? Vast sections of this strange world are dark as coal, while others are as bright as ice.’
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Year: 2007
One of the real magicians:
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Mmm, crustaceans.
I’m still working on that long post; in the meantime, here are some crayfish in the market in Beijing.
The Redtangle, originally uploaded by skypecaptain.
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a tale of heartwarming geekiness: ‘There are a bunch of people in their basements playing Flight Simulator, and a bunch of people in their basements pretending to be air traffic controllers, running an application that simulates a radarscope.’
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Such fun!
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via Metafilter: ‘This blog is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin’s letters from the first World War. The letters will be posted exactly 90 years after they were written.’
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Apologies for infrequent posting
I’m working up to writing a long post about the book I just finished, but in the meantime, here’s a quietly hypnotic video of someone hand-feeding hummingbirds:
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via fishea on delicious: ‘Starting in 2003 I committed to the idea of creating a luxury apartment in the mall.’
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via swissmiss, a really cute idea.
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A comparison between the Pirahã (a culture with no concept of numbers and little apparent wish to learn about them) and a parallel situation in the USA.
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illustrations from ‘Arcana Entomologica; or, Illustrations of Rare, and Interesting Exotic Insects’ (1841-1845)by John Westwood
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‘The inventor’s trial-and-error approach can be automated by software that mimics natural selection’