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Miniature Addams Family set Etsy seller EverydayMiniatures makes beautiful miniature replicas of classic TV show sets out of paper, foam, printed paper and glue. The Addams Family house is my favorite, selling for $345. Read the rest... Fun video series teaches electronics to kids Circuit Playground is a cute and informative video series created to teach kids (and everyone else) about electronics. The videos are based on the A-Z coloring book that Adafruit Industries published last year. Read the rest... Melted cassette tape skulls and skeletons Here's gallery of skeletons and skulls made from melted-down cassette tapes by Brian Dettmer. Memento mori for a dead medium. Brian Dettmer's Melted Casette Tape Skeletons and Skulls (via Neatorama) Read the rest... Some considerations for potential XKCD phone purchasers Randall Munroe's xkcd Phone has the greatest warning label of all time: "Presented in partnership with Qualcomm, Craigslist, Whirlpool, Hostess, LifeStyles, and the US Chamber of Commerce. Read the rest... This Day in Blogging History: Catching terrorists isn't "connecting the dots"; Food and sugar-cube equivalents; Senator Franken? One year ago today Why "connecting the dots" is the wrong way to think about stopping terrorism: As Bruce points out, it's only in hindsight that there's a neat trail of dots to connect, a narrative we can make sense of. Read the rest... The business/markets case for limits to copyright You'll remember Derek Khanna as the Republican House staffer who got fired for writing a paper that used careful objective research to argue for scaling back copyright. Read the rest... Cleopatra in Space: trailer for kids' graphic novel [Video Link] I'm a big fan of Mike Maihack's artwork, and he's got a new graphic novel called Cleopatra in Space. Read the rest... The making of the Sword & Laser Anthology When Tom Merritt and I (Veronica Belmont) started producing Sword & Laser back in 2007, we really only meant it as a project to entertain ourselves. Read the rest... Big Data analysis from the White House: understanding the debate Danah boyd, founder of the critical Big Data think/do tank Data and Society, writes about the work she did with the White House on Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values [PDF]. Read the rest... $2k desktop milling machine Three days into its Kickstarter, the Nomad CNC Mill has received over three times its funding goal. This is more interesting to me than home-based 3D printing technology, because you can make things out of a variety of materials and it is more accurate. Read the rest... What if we threw a revolution, and nobody came? Two things I did not realize: 1: The phrase "the Copernican Revolution" was coined by Immanuel Kant. 2: Copernicus' contemporaries didn't see his ideas as controversial. Read the rest... Aurora Award nominees, including a performance from actual outer space Brooke Abbey writes, "The 2014 Prix Aurora Award nominees have been announced! [Ed: this is the Canadian popular science fiction prize]. Read the rest... Wink's remarkable book picks of the week Wink is a website that reviews one remarkable paper book every weekday. My wife, Carla Sinclair, is the editor. We take photos of the covers and the interior pages of the books to show you why we love them. Read the rest... Why should you care about a dead king's DNA? "Oh look a king, let's break out the thermocycler," writes osteoarchaeologist Alison Atkin in a piece on the not exactly essential DNA analysis of the remains of Richard III. Read the rest... Antibiotics and the microbiome This post on overselling the microbiome by microbiologist Jonathan Eisen is worth reading if, for no other reason, than that it serves as a nice reminder that we don't actually have this microbiome thing figured out yet, and the community of scientists don't agree on ideas that are fast becoming pop culture "everybody knows" material. Read the rest... No climate change, please. We're Fox & Friends In totally unsurprising news, Scientific American editor Michael Moyer was told he couldn't talk about climate change in a recent appearance on Fox News' morning show. Read the rest... Pyramid Parts Would Slide Superbly on Soaked Sand, Says Study A new theory is adding to our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians might have built the pyramids. You'll recall that, today, most Egyptologists believe the pyramids were built by workers pulling blocks of stone on sledges. Read the rest... Why feed babies one new food at a time? Do you really have to start with rice cereal? Why do we only feed babies unseasoned food? Matt Shipman gets some interesting answers from a NC State nutrition professor. Read the rest... What Will You Miss Most? by Mark Ernest Pothier As soon as I heard Mark Ernest Pothier's What Will You Miss Most? was available, I had to read it. His stories grab my attention and his characters wrench my heart. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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