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Category: Blogosphere
I have my priorities! Do I even need to comment on how awesome this is? Via iO9....
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Now on ScienceBlogs: The little-known subgenre of Talpanas tribute art
biology + art
bioephemera is art + biology - everything from representations of science in art and literature to the neuroscience of aesthetics.
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Category: Blogosphere
I have my priorities! Do I even need to comment on how awesome this is? Via iO9....
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Category: Artists & Art
Upcoming at Observatory in NYC: Entomologia (Feb 26-April 4), a group show of art incorporating and inspired by insects. I'm particularly intrigued by the discussion scheduled for April 3, "Transgenics, Cybernetics, and Evolution:" Silkworms engineered to produce pharmaceuticals and...
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Category: Artists & Art
Miguel Rivera, a systems administrator at a U.S. Air Force base in Southwest Asia, builds robots and vehicles from the base's trashed hard drives: "The overall concept was to make something out of just hard drive parts and pieces,"...
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Category: Frivolity
This explanatory video from Wired/the Exploratorium shows how "Dr. Megavolt" (Austin Richards) created a birdcage-topped stainless steel bodysuit, so he can play with the giant Tesla coil he built. This guy knows how to have fun, man....
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Category: Artists & Art
artwork by Ryan Abblegen, via iO9. (Since he was BoingBoinged, his etsy shop is all out of mechanized murder cards, so bookmark him for after the holidays)....
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Category: Artists & Art
"Insectopedia" Kiff Slemmons Self-taught metal artist Kiff Slemmons' classic series "Insectopedia" is a collection of metal pins fusing insects with typography. She's also known for working with found objects like shells, stones and bones, as in the following pieces...
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Category: Design
Dress by Alison Lewis, Photography by Carlos Linares III. Read all about it at iheartswitch....
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Category: Conspicuous consumption
Vintage Ray Gun Themed Christmas Gifts. Enough said, I think....
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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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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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