Oct 07
Though NASA sadly spent its recent 55th birthday furloughing employees
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Oct 04
It’s hard not to feel a sense of simultaneous discomfort and awe while watching the fascinatingly bizarre YouTube channel of Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based travel agency specializing in trips to North Korea.
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Oct 02
In this infinite universe of ours, every event that occurs and every choice that we make continually split away into countless individual timelines—alternate realities, if you will. So who’s to say that Bigfoot, Kraken, Martians, even Cthulu himself aren’t perfectly real but simply residents of a now divergent reality? Matthew Buchholz, author of Alternate Histories of the World illustrates just a few major alternate historical events of the last 6,000 years.
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Oct 02
Why is it so hard for us humans to let go? We’re obsessed with preserving the things we love—even when logic tells us it’s time to move on. One large scale example of this irrational behavior: The billions of dollars spent to move entire towns out of harm’s way.
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Oct 01
“A 1.5 kilogram clump of fatty tissue which is located in our head.” That’s how curator Marius Kwint describes the enigmatic subject of Brains: The Mind as Matter, a new exhibition at Manchester’s Museum of Science & Industry. The reality, of course, is infinitely more complex—and this not-for-the-squeamish show displays some of the more fascinating experiments, interventions, and artworks produced with our minds in mind.
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Sep 30
Kodak may be "a walking corpse of a company" according to some
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Sep 26
We are so, so close to commercial orbital tourism. We sit on the cusp of a new space age—an age of convenience rather than exploration, where anybody—really, anybody—can become an astronaut.
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Sep 25
Airports administrators are always valiantly attempting to add some levity to the travel experience, god bless ’em. Yet in this ongoing quest for whimsy and spectacle, they’ve also managed to commission some of the world’s weirdest art. Because what could possibly aid your re-entry into civilization after being strapped to a chair for six hours? Flying corn!
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Sep 24
It’s been nearly a century since airships floated by the Empire State Building. But now that the aluminum airship of the future
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Sep 20
Sting isn’t usually thought of as a geek hero. But, if you look carefully at the cover of the Police single “Wrapped Around Your Finger”, you’ll see that he is proudly wearing a symbol of geekdom from the late 1970s and 1980s. Similarly, geek icon Marty McFly is seen to be wearing the same symbol in Back To The Future: a calculator watch. In an era before cell phones got small enough to carry, a calculator watch was a sure sign of someone who cared about the geeky stuff.
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