June 2010
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I Cut Like A Buffalo (Skream Remix) by The Dead...
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Galileo's fingers to be displayed in Florence... →
Two of Galileo’s fingers, removed from his corpse by admirers in the 18th century, have gone on display in a Florence museum now named after the astronomer.
The Museum of the History of Science had shut down for two years for renovations. It reopened on Tuesday, calling itself the Galileo Museum.
Last year, the museum director announced that the thumb and middle finger from Galileo’s...
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Tweets from inside the Mars500 box →
Diego Urbina and Romain Charles will be tweeting (relayed via mission control) throughout their 520 day stint in the European Space Agency experiment, Mars500, the first ever full-length simulation mission to the Red Planet.
More info here.
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“I have often wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the...”
– Beyond the Wall of Sleep by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Mars 500: Countdown starts for gruelling mission... →
Tomorrow six men will be sealed inside a mock-up spaceship in Moscow, where they will spend the next 520 days testing how well humans cope with the stress of a return trip to Mars. After a year of strenuous astronaut training, six men will clamber into a capsule tomorrow afternoon for a journey like no other. Their mission? To boldly go – well, nowhere.
The men, who were chosen from thousands of...
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Twelve killed in Cumbria shooting spree →
• Three critically injured and five more seriously wounded • Queen says she is ‘deeply shocked’ by shootings • Gunman takes own life after rampage in Cumbria
Twelve people have been killed and another 25 are in hospital after a gunman drove across Cumbria shooting victims in several different locations, before taking his own life.
Police said they were investigating 30...
May 2010
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Is Badger culling a good idea?
At the end of this month a pilot cull will begin to take place in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
The reason for this is to try and stop the spreading of TB between badgers and cows. What makes this even crueler, to me, is that there is a vaccine available. In England a five year vaccination program is already underway.
The Independent Scientific Group conducted a 10 year study, killing 11,000 badgers...
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Craig Venter creates synthetic life form →
Scientists have created the world’s first synthetic life form in a landmark experiment that paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved.
Craig Venter, the pioneering US geneticist behind the experiment, said the achievement heralds the dawn of a new era in which new life is made to benefit humanity, starting with bacteria that churn out biofuels, soak up...
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft.
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“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret...”
– The White Ship by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Multicolr Search Lab →
We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.
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Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega.
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“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
– Laozi
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Heavy Water
“Heavy water is 10.6% denser than ordinary water, a difference which is difficult to notice in a sample of it (although it looks like water, it reportedly tastes slightly sweet). One of the few ways to demonstrate heavy water’s physically different properties without equipment, is to freeze a sample and drop it into normal water. Ice made from heavy water sinks in normal water. If the...
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April 2010
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My Flickr on Tumblr →
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In Praise of Shyness →
Shyness is feeling a bit awkward these days. Shyness, we might say, is suffering a crisis of confidence. Hovering at the fringes of psychiatry, a possible indicator (but then again, possibly not) of what the mental health industry now calls Social Anxiety Disorder, shyness doesn’t quite know what to do with itself. How very uncomfortable for shyness.
Social Anxiety Disorder. Hmmm. The Mayo...
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Ooh La La by The Wiseguys.
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“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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Eyjafjallajökull Eruption →
Looks like I could be stuck in Italy for a few days longer… sounds good to me!
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“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one...”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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1ere Gymnopedie by Yuko Ikoma.
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