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Human tears, viewed under a microscope Maurice Mikkers is an artist and licensed lab analyst from the Netherlands. In this series, he photographs his friends' tears using a microscope. Read the rest... L.A. plans to build massive skyscrapers over fault line Looks like developers win again. Aw, but what do geologists know about fault lines anyway? After a two-year battle between Millennium Hollywood developers and state geologists (as well as local residents)  over whether or not to build two mega skyscrapers in Hollywood, the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety decided it was safe to go forward with the project. Read the rest... Watch this '80s vision of future tech from Apple, and be glad for what didn't come true This 1987 video from Apple imagines a future world in 1997 made richer and more wonderful by all the sweet Apple products Apple was going to build. Read the rest... South Carolina State Senate votes to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds South Carolina's Senate passed legislation Tuesday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state house, where it has flown for five decades despite being viewed by many as a symbol of slavery. Read the rest... RIP, Disney Imagineering great Blaine Gibson Gibson sculpted the realistic, long-wearing human faces and features of the animatronic robots that fill the Disney parks. From various incarnations of Abe Lincoln (including the original 1964 NYC World's Fair edition) to the characters in Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion, Gibson practically invented the modern practice of sculpting animated, public figures. Read the rest... Tiny lipstick sculptures of tourist attractions UK artist Hedley Wiggan carved lipsticks into iconic tourist attractions for the International Lipstick Colours of the Year exhibit at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Read the rest... Watch: I was Ronald McDonald From 1995 to 2007, Joe Maggard was Ronald McDonald. "The clown is right in there. The clown is ready to go." (Guardian Docs) Read the rest... Beer cap maps This is a great way to save the caps of your favorite craft beers. You can pick from each U.S. state and various boozy countries; all are $39.99 from Beer Cap Maps. Read the rest... Slam poet explains sexual consent Guante performs at the March 2015 Saint Paul Poetry Slam. I hope you're picking up what he's throwing down. [via] Read the rest... Waves of Grass Beautiful video of air currents rippling through grassy knolls in Norway. Shot by Redditor gissisim. Read the rest... Punjammies: loungewear claimed to help victims of human trafficking A friend of mine turned me on to Punjammies, described as "loungewear bottoms made with hope by women in India who have escaped human trafficking." I got my pair today, love them, and will be ordering another in blue. Read the rest... DIY Underlit LED Skirt Imgur user SexyCyborg makes lots of cool fashion using open source hardware, like this underlit LED skirt. She published a very detailed HOWTO create your own based on her trial and error. Read the rest... WATCH: More DeepDream obsessions Since Cory posted about the Deep Dream image recognition algorithm last month (and Rob earlier today) it's inspired an explosion of iterations like Roelof Pieters' DeepDreamed Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Read the rest... End of the United States' "weaponized anthropology" program After eight years, the US army's $725 million Human Terrain System, a controversial social science program ostensibly established to help the military understand the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, but criticized as a tool for propaganda and psyops, has ended. Read the rest... Defending Confederate flag, South Carolina legislator goes off on crazy anti-rainbows rant They're not rainbows. They're "abomination colors." Read the rest... Chinese cotton-candy master ruins America In footage said to be from China, a vendor creates a beautiful and elaborate cotton-candy creation. Look at the menu to the right: it isn't even the most expensive one. Read the rest... WATCH: Jack Storms, sculpted gorgeous cube for Guardians of the Galaxy Cold glass sculptor Jack Storms explains how he makes his gorgeous pieces, including one that became a cube prop in the Guardians of the Galaxy film. Read the rest... Joker hand-mask [Source] (via Neatorama) Read the rest... LISTEN: Was "rainmaker" Charles Hatfield responsible for San Diego's calamitous flood of 1916? Coincidence, correlation, or something else? Read the rest... Google's Deep Dreaming fills the 'net with psychedelic nightmare GIFs Google's Deep Dreaming is an effort to allow computers to visualize the world through neural networks. The result, of course, is the psychotic nightmare landscape of an emergent machine intelligence, where holes become puppy eyes and anything long and thin is interpreted as a shimmering tentacle. Read the rest... Detroit News documents the decimation of one city block Over the holiday weekend, The Detroit News published a remarkable analysis of what happened in Detroit's foreclosure meltdown. One block on Greensboro Street saw 33 of 38 homes go into mortgage or tax foreclosure in the last ten years. Read the rest... BBC finalizes Micro:bit computer design To Britons of a certain age, the BBC Micro was a legendary 8-bit computer perfect for learning to code (and to play with between lessons). Read the rest... What to expect from this year's San Diego Comic Con Coverage of this week's event seems mostly to center on how it went from "comic mecca" to a bloated pop culture marketing event of dubious relevance to anything in particular. Read the rest... Portraits of Hollywood's odd costumed characters Copenhagen-based photographer Ken Hermann took a series of incredible and strange portraits of the costumed characters who roam Hollywood Boulevard. "Hollywood Street Characters" (via Buzzfeed) Read the rest... Watch this amazing father/daughter beatbox battle Nicole Paris dominates, but clearly the beatbox talent is genetic. See many more clips on Paris's YouTube channel. Read the rest... Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator Made of opaque aluminum, this $150 gadget hooks up to a proper cellphone and makes all the right moves and noises. Read the rest... Apple Watch's pixels magnified Retinal neuroscientist Bryan Jones shot a series of beautiful, mesmerizing photos revealing the pattern taken by the Watch's LED subpixels—and other components of the tiny display. Read the rest... Beastie Boys Rock Hard Celebrating the first Beastie Boys Rap Record from Def Jam, rarely heard because of the prominent AC/DC sample. Read the rest... 5 tips for writing science fiction to engage people who don't read it Back in 2006, I had an epiphany. Stories are empathy engines, regardless of the medium. And for humans, they always have been. Read the rest... Calvin and Markov: text-chaining new, weird computer humor Josh Millard's Calvin and Markov uses a small perl script to mine transcripts of Calvin and Hobbes strips using Markov chains to make new, weird, computer humor. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list