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My Wisconsin Death Trip on Twitter

Category: General

Some time back, I was researching a feature for Wired when I stumbled across the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. One of the responsibilities of this office is to monitor workplace fatalities. Each week, a roundup...

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My new toy: the Gömböc

Category: Cabinet of curiosities

I'm not really one for collecting things. The fact that I move around a lot twinned with the pathetic size of British homes, doesn't square well with building up much of anything. I finally dumped all my CDs last summer;...

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Gorgeous cover designs for Jules Verne books

Category: Art

Jim Tierney designed a beautiful set of covers for some of Jules Verne's most famous works. The project was carried out as part of his senior year thesis. He says: I'm a big Verne fan, but a chance to re-design...

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SciencePunk in Ataraxia Theatre

Category: Art

Many thanks to Joseph Hewitt at Ataraxia Theatre, who has immortalised me and many other sciencebloggers in comic form. Finally my work is done. I'm especially happy that Joseph has drawn in me in a classy mesh number, as worn...

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Mystery of graveyard pictures solved!

Category: Art

A few weeks ago I was given a vintage camera that turned out to have a film hidden inside. On developing, I found the entire roll was dedicated to pictures of an old gravesite. Who was Edward Langan? Why had...

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Vampire Forensics by Mark Jenkins

After a brief insurrection by their blue collar offspring, zombies, vampires have once more regained their prominence as the monster supreme, leaping out at us from every bookshelf, cinema screen and TV set. What better time then for Mark Jenkins...

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Record grooves as seen under the microscope

Category: Art

Thanks to Emilia for showing me this awesome post on the Synthgear website which shows what record grooves look like under an electron microscope. Here's a line of disco magnified 500 times: Researcher Chris Supranowitz at the University of Rochester's...

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Illustrious, illustrated, female astronauts

Category: Art

Graphic artist Philip Bond drew this awesome set of female astronauts. You can see the whole collection on his Flickr page....

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