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"A meeting at Cern, the world’s largest physics lab, has addressed results that suggest..."

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:00:06 +1000

“A meeting at Cern, the world’s largest physics lab, has addressed results that suggest subatomic particles have gone faster than the speed of light. The team presented its work so other scientists can determine if the approach contains any mistakes. If it does not, one of the pillars of modern science will come tumbling down.”

- BBC News - Speed-of-light results under scrutiny at Cern

"Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone. Follow your..."

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:37:05 +1000

“Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone. Follow your phone’s journey around the world and fight the market forces in a spiral of planned obsolescence.”

- Phone Story - iPhone game by Molleindustria (via Daring Fireball)

SOLAR SINTER (2MIN EDIT) (by Markus Kayser)

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:22:05 +1000

SOLAR SINTER (2MIN EDIT) (by Markus Kayser)

"The U.S. Supreme Court stopped Texas officials Thursday evening from executing a Houston murderer..."

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:25:05 +1000

“The U.S. Supreme Court stopped Texas officials Thursday evening from executing a Houston murderer who was sentenced to die after jurors were told he posed a greater danger to public safety because he is black.”

- Supreme Court halts Texas execution - latimes.com (via Daring Fireball)

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE - North Star (by Mitch Fillion...

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:02:05 +1000

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE - North Star (by Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca))

Erin Gee — Lucide 2010 (via SparkleMuffinG’s Channel -...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:01:05 +1000

Erin Gee — Lucide 2010 (via SparkleMuffinG’s Channel - YouTube)

Video

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +1000

"It was dubstep though that unlocked Blake’s creativity. Beforehand, he’d found his own lyrics..."

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:54:55 +1000

“It was dubstep though that unlocked Blake’s creativity. Beforehand, he’d found his own lyrics “cringeworthy” and disliked the way he sang: “I felt like it wasn’t my own voice; it was the product of everything I’d listened to.” That all changed when he started to try and make his own dubstep tunes. Instead of composing on the piano, Blake was producing songs using Logic software on a computer. “I could record them and look at them, almost physically – graphically – and just chop up what I did like and I didn’t like,” he says, eyes on his sandwich. “It didn’t have to be all in one take, it could be something I designed from the ground up, visually. That process completely solved that problem for me.””

- James Blake | Music | The Guardian (via adnanchowdhury)

Electrocado - Mechacado v2.0 Complete (via A MIDI Robot...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +1000

Electrocado - Mechacado v2.0 Complete
(via A MIDI Robot Percussionist and a New Album, from the Duo Electrocado)

"Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research..."

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:02:05 +1000

“Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information.”

- IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain | VentureBeat

YACHT - Utopia/Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) (by DFArecords)

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:00:05 +1000

YACHT - Utopia/Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) (by DFArecords)

vegansaurus!: Murder-suicides: not just for humans anymore!

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:10:44 +1000

vegansaurus!: Murder-suicides: not just for humans anymore! :

vegansaurus:

A mother bear in China killed her cub and then herself. Why? To escape the bear bile industry.

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Reports claim she heard her cub crying while workers attempted to poke a milking hole in his little bear tummy. She BUSTED OUT OF HER NEARBY CAGE and scattered the workers. After an unsuccessful attempt to free her cub, she gave him a hug and then strangled him to death. Finally, she dropped the poor dead cub to the ground before running headfirst into a fucking wall.

Electron Microscope Image of Hydrothermal Worm - FEI (via jwz)

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:00:06 +1000

Electron Microscope Image of Hydrothermal Worm - FEI (via jwz)

(via SLEEPYHANDS)

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:00:05 +1000

(via SLEEPYHANDS)

"WHILE OUR CURRENT style of punishment rests on a bedrock of personal volition and blame, our modern..."

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:00:06 +1000

“WHILE OUR CURRENT style of punishment rests on a bedrock of personal volition and blame, our modern understanding of the brain suggests a different approach. Blameworthiness should be removed from the legal argot. It is a backward-looking concept that demands the impossible task of untangling the hopelessly complex web of genetics and environment that constructs the trajectory of a human life.”

- The Brain on Trial - Magazine - The Atlantic (via jwz)

adnanchowdhury: Steven Pinker - The Genius of Charles Darwin:...

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:01:05 +1000

adnanchowdhury:

Steven Pinker - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews (by richarddawkinsdotnet)

Salon Jetpack is a fictional city transport network where...

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:09:59 +1000

Salon Jetpack is a fictional city transport network where each neighborhood salon provides a style of hair and corresponding hydrogen peroxide powered Jetpack. The attached hair protector helmet maintains your hairstyle while blonding your hair as you and your tribe traverse the cityscape. (via Chris Fox | SFAC Gallery)

Marques Toliver - White Sails - Live on Jools Holland 2010 (by...

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +1000

Marques Toliver - White Sails - Live on Jools Holland 2010 (by ReaperSwarm)

"This story fits into a national pattern of law enforcement going to great lengths to prosecute..."

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:00:06 +1000

“This story fits into a national pattern of law enforcement going to great lengths to prosecute people who are perceived as serious threats to national security, but who are (for the most part) just people with big mouths and weird lifestyles.”

- The Long Con by Brendan Kiley - Seattle Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper

(via Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world | Video on...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:00:05 +1000

(via Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world | Video on TED.com)