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Soviet animations of American sci-fi stories

Category: Art

Rhizome has a cache of incredible 1980s-era Soviet animations of American science fiction stories. Quite fittingly for Earth Day, here is Ray Bradbury's "Here There Be Tygers" as imagined by Russian animators. The hyper-synth music is especially awesome. неимоверно! More...

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Zooey Deschanel to play Ada Lovelace?

Category: nerdgasm

Setting nerdy hearts a-flutter across the internet is current rumour that Zooey Deschanel will play Ada Lovelace in an upcoming film about the world's first programmer. Gizmodo has the scoop: The casting of Zooey Deschanel isn't completely confirmed, with Production...

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Michael Specter: The Danger of Science Denial

Category: bad science

Journalist Michael Specter makes a erudite and impassioned plea for reason and critical thinking in this video from TED. It's a fantastic speech, and huge tracts could have sprung from my own lips (and probably have done on one occassion...

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Richard Younger-Ross MP (LibDem) on the Digital Economy Bill

Category: Constitutional Law

Given that the much-reviled Digital Economy Bill has been forced through Parliament into law, I thought I'd share the very long and very thoughtful email I received from my MP Richard Younger-Ross after I wrote to him in protest of...

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London's Theatre of Ideas: Future Human

Category: General

Next week I'll be in London to attend Bad Idea magazine's Future Human, part of a series of salons exploring themese of transhumanism. Wednesday's event looks at whether increasingly sophisticated software will render some clerical occupations obsolete. In the Industrial...

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The World's Largest Meteorite

Category: Mysterious stuff fallen from the sky

Last year Neatorama's Alex Zavatone happened to find himself near Angola on the African continent. While driving through Grootfontein, Namibia, he spotted a road sign that simply said "Meteorite." Later he decided to make a 170 mile pilgrimage through beautiful...

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Atom smasher planned for Circle Line

The Independent has revealed plans by CERN to build a new particle accelerator along London's 23km Circle Line. The use of supercooled magnets would make it London's first air conditined underground line. In related news, CERN have announced that yesterday's...

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