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the always interesting Oliver Sacks on the subject of hallucination in visually-impaired people.
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Sculptures of viruses and bacteria made from glass. Make sure you click through to see all the pictures. via Carl Zimmer.
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'Trevor Paglen visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World."' These @Google talks are usually worth a look; this is a good one.
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'In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.
In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired – often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies.'
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More amusing cover-design madness from a POD company that does overpriced editions of books that are out of copyright.
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‘You’ve just found the place where you can actually
“Listen to Medicine for Better Health”After years of research and development, we have perfected the process of capturing the precise energetic patterns, or vibrational signatures, of homeopathic remedies, herbs, supplements, and even medications.
So why is this such a BIG DEAL?
Because listening to the sound of a homeopathic remedy will produce
the exact same effect as ingesting the original physical substance.Imagine how great it would be if you could listen to a sound for a few minutes, and your headache disappears, your acid reflux vanishes, or your allergy symptoms go away, and WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS!
Is this possible?
ABSOLUTELY YES!’
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Trying a different approach to aid in Namibia: 'The idea is simple: The payment of a basic monthly income, funded with tax revenues, of 100 Namibia dollars, or about €9 ($13), for each citizen. There are no conditions, and nothing is expected in return.'
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two coloured smoke rings colliding — surprisingly fab. via Metafilter.