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A collection of 202 posts

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What molecule is this?

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Geometry as art and maths

Spherebending with Bill Thurston (RIP) via Cosmic Variance Paper Engineering with Matthew Shlian via Colossal

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Couchsurfing with a 5m tall puppet

Couchsurfing.org is wonderful. I have had all sorts of fun, friendly and enthusiastic people staying with me. Their enthusiasm for London has reinvigorated my own love for the city. It seemed only natural to host a few more people over the Olympics. It took less than a day to

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Simian songbook

Brother Earl from Randy & Earl’s Old Record Club has put together a wonderful mix of monkey related goodness. Thought you might like it. King Of The Swingers « Randy & Earl’s Old Record Club.

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For dolphins, seafood tastes salty.

New research in top science journal PNAS suggests that carnivores can't taste very much. This is particularly bad news for dolphins. Humans and many other mammals have five types of taste receptors - sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami (savoury or meatiness). Animals in the order Carnivora appear

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Comfort or Food? The Harlow Monkey Love Song

Anyone who gets through first year psychology will be familiar with Harry Harlow and his cruel experiments with rhesus monkeys. Little orphan monkeys were given the choice between a wire surrogate mother who provided food and a terry cloth surrogate who provided comfort. The monkeys huddled to the cuddly surrogate

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WRONG, RIGHT

Original source unknown :(

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Flying spaghetti monster photographed for the first time

For those that doubted the existence of the flying spaghetti monster, scientists have managed to photograph him. And the reality is more amazing than you can have imagined.. He really is out there floating in space spanning the whole universe. And even better, do you know what the meatballs are?

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onemonkey, twomonkeys, onemonkey

Regulars readers may know that onemonkey had brief incarnation as a dj. My good friend Yossarian and I used to encourage whales to provide vocal tracks for drum and bass records. You can hear the results of this cetacean collaboration on soundcloud: Now news reaches me from Berlin of another

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So you want to take over the world?

It is the dream that many of us have. But I really wouldn't bother taking over the world if I were you.. The chances are it would be quite a lot of work and no-one seems to have managed it yet. More importantly, you'll never get

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Visionary Madness - Nicholas Kalmakoff

Paintings by Nicholas Kalmakoff Title: Arthur Rimbaud In 1955, a Russian émigré died alone, unknown and in poverty at the hôpital de Lagny to the north of Paris. After leading a hermit's existence in his small room at the hotel de la Rochefoucault in Paris, this former Russian

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The day the internet died.

Oh what a day that was. I emerged blinking into the sunlight and saw flowers and trees. I spoke to real live people. I read a real newspaper and a book printed on actual paper. Mind you, I was worried about what was happening to all those cats.

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What's buzzing in Bumblebology?

I bet you are asking yourself what is new in bee science? You would be right to be curious because we are living golden age for bumblebology.. Just today in PLoS ONE the leading open access journal there were two brilliantly bonkers new bee papers. Hasegawa Y, Ikeno H (2011)

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And if you haven't, you should.

What person hasn’t escaped to the bathroom during a business meeting and made a weird face in the mirror to say to the world: “You don’t know I’m doing this right now. Oh there’s so much you don’t know.” No other moment can so clearly

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The 2020's - Decade of the aliens?

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"] [/caption] With the twenty noughties truly over  and the twenty teens picking up steam. What will we call all these decades be best know for? The noughties seem to have been the

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Le Chat, C'est Moi

[caption id="attachment_1216" align="alignnone" width="700" caption="Le Chat - 2010-12-09"] [/caption] I have just discovered Philippe Geluck's magnifique comique Le Chat. It's formidable. Philippe Geluck - Le Chat - Home.

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Papal Ice Nine

I thought this recent Facebook vignette is worth saving for posterity or pitching to Roland Emmerich. Although, since it was on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg now owns alls rights to this idea so it's his call. Caspar Addyman is wondering if the pope is always on duty. and if

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Finally, I'm an Official Iron Maiden Fan Club member

Yes, i've chosen to make my favourite tattooed millionaire a little richer. And it's about time too. * They were the band of my teens. * They are my favourite live band * Three of their concerts are in my all time top 10. * This summer I drove 3000

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Hannes Caspar : babydult and other works

I am rather liking Hannes Caspar's photographs http://www.babydult.com. http://www.hannescaspar.com/

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Fresh brains attack the zombie problem

The future of zombie researchIt's about time there were fresh brains in zombie research. So, it's great to see that once again neuroscience is breathing new life into a topic that has had the life sucked out of it by philosophers.  For too long, large brained

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I wonder what he was praying for?

No, this isn’t some fancy Photoshop trick, these are real human footprints ingrained in a hardwood floor. 70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches

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100 'best' opening lines

The American Book Review has a cynical traffic generating list of the best 100 opening lines from literature. I just read the whole thing so you don't have to and to be honest I don't think you have to. They don't really get it.

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We're all armed with coffee cups.

What's your weapon of choice?.

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Robot snake climbs real tree

[youtube 8VLjDjXzTiU] CMU’s Biorobotics Lab have build a modular robotic snake. It can climb trees and spy on you. Air penguins, Robotuna, and now this? The robot uprising may have already started. via Singularity Hub Update: Oh brilliant, they're letting robots take over the hospitals. That will

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The form is strong in this one.

Here's Darth Vader performing the 42 move Yang style sword form of Tai Chi Chuan. As you might expect, he's actually pretty good.