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TGIF: Annals of Gullibility

Category: Books

If I weren't so darn busy, I'd be tempted to read this book: As you can tell from the photo, I've been spending a lot of time in the library. Sorry for the low post volume - I have quite...

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Day of the Dead at the Zoo

Category: Artists & Art

Seen in Cambridge, MA: a red-eyed skeletal zombie hippo. Paint-your-own ceramics was never like this when I was a kid!...

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Willy Chyr's Balluminescence

Category: Artists & Art

Talk about ephemera - Willy Chyr makes bioart out of balloons! Check out his installation Balluminescence: Balluminescence - Lights, Balloons, Jellyfish! was commissioned by Science Chicago and was created for the program's finale signature event - LabFest! Millennium Park....

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Dear "Top Scientist": Here is a Rocket. You Put In Other Details

Category: Blogosphere

From the wonderful blog Letters of Note: in 1957, schoolboy Denis Cox generously shared his rocket blueprints with "A Top Scientist" at Australia's Woomera Weapons Research Establishment. The important stuff (Rolls Royce jet engines, "Air Torpeados") is all there,...

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Birth control, the crochet way

Category: Biology

OK: I'm female AND a biologist, and looking at this one freaks ME out! I'm all in favor of appreciating the beauty of female anatomy and miracle of childbirth and all, but this pasty, long-limbed newborn doll with a detatchable...

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Fish heads, squirrel suits, TGIF!

Category: Yikes!

Has your week been like this, too? I'm just checking. . . "Fish in a squirrel suit" by Slightly Curious. Via Regretsy....

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Bury me in a chocolate coffin - please

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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Even Hello Kitty's guts are sickeningly cute

Category: Biology

Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...

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Invasion of the righteously angry trash robots

Category: Artists & Art

From Inhabitat: Artist Brandon Jon Blommaert's recycled trash robots (yes, they're real sculptures) lay waste to Photoshopped landscapes. Check out his flickr page for more - and a "making of" series of photos showing how he built these steampunky...

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Your brain - on Van Aelst

Category: Artists & Art

Photographer Kevin Van Aelst's work is clever, funny, and meticulous to a fault.

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