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Category: Science
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo. Last week, at the imagine science film festival in New York, Magnetic Movie won the Nature Scientific Merit Award: In 2009, the Nature Scientific Merit Award went to the film judged to be not...
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Category: Conspicuous consumption
According to reader Milde, L.A. Burdick's is a "serious chocolate experience." Little did I know she was right - this place even has coffin-shaped chocolate boxes for Halloween. And little chocolate ghosts. Adorable! Of course, if you really want...
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Category: Biology
Montana authorities characterize the loss of a Yellowstone wolf pack to hunters as "a learning experience".
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Category: Artists & Art
Artist Liz Hickok makes your Friday complete with a Jell-O San Francisco, from this jiggly Palace of Fine Arts to a melting Marina. Melding the blurry, children's book perspective of tilt-shift photography with the saturated, translucent colors that define...
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Category: Blogosphere
Inspiredology rounds up tilt-shift photography from all over the web
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Category: Artists & Art
An enigmatic photo from Morbid Anatomy's review of the Quay Brothers show at Parsons in NYC. Read all about it here....
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Category: Biology
According to Reuters, Gunther von Hagens of Body Worlds fame is going to create an entire exhibit showing plastinated cadavers in sexual poses. He already includes two "copulating cadavers" in his current show: German politicians called the current "Cycle of...
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Category: Artists & Art
Check out these remarkable photos of patterns grown in Japanese rice fields using different strains of pigmented rice. A number of commenters on the thread at funster have suggested the photos are faked, so I found this Japanese news...
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Category: Destinations
Wandering around the Chattanooga waterfront at night, we encountered this charming random artwork. It's sort of Greek Temple x [Tesla + Buckminster Fuller]. And the wire hemisphere was full of tiny insects! It was only one of many artworks...
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Category: Artists & Art
Artomatic just wouldn't be complete without a sinister cephalopod, and luckily Kurt Peterson stepped in to make it happen.
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