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Candy balls made with ghost peppers Thinkgeek's Ghost Pepper Super Hot Candy Balls ($10 for about 44 balls) are red-hot candy balls dusted and infused with powdered Bhut Jolokia (ghost pepper) and Trinidad Scorpion Pepper, coming in at about one million Scovilles. Read the rest... Pareidolia of the day (via Arbroath) As Rick in Seattle says: "It's not just a dog, it's a dog with sad, watery eyes, asking for attention." Read the rest... The first Science Hack Day in Colombia Last weekend, the very first Science Hack Day in Colombia was held in Medellín. I had the privilege of attending the event and was struck by how incredibly dedicated all of the attendees were. Read the rest... Song of the Day: "Pagan Atheists" From the YouTube description: "Manka Faith's Christian pop superstars Tween Jesus & Me have struck gold yet again with "Pagan Atheists." [Video link. Thanks, Jill!] Read the rest... Tesseract Crossing From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Tau Zero's Tesseract Crossing, a street-sign from the parallel universe of awesome. Read the rest... Plastic pollution in oceans can't be solved with a gadget Every so often, somebody comes up with a plan for finding and removing the particles of plastic that litter our oceans and accumulate in "garbage patch" gyres. Read the rest... The Return of Zita the Space Girl Ben Hatke's Zita the Spacegirl kids' comics are a huge favorite around these parts. In The Return of Zita the Space Girl, Hatke wraps up his first story arc in a way that can only be called an absolute triumph. Cory Doctorow reviews it. Read the rest... TIL: What an oryctologist is Paleontologists are not the people who dig up dinosaur bones. That's oryctologists. Some paleontologists are also oryctologists. But not all. And plenty of oryctologists don't do paleontology. Read the rest... The real Turing Test crashes headlong into issues of gender identity The game Alan Turing actually proposed: A man and a computer compete to see who is better at pretending to be a woman. As judged by men. In 1950. Hilarity ensues. Read the rest... What happens when you go collect random virus samples in the jungle Zika virus — a mosquito-borne illness that we discovered in lab samples almost 20 years before we identified a case in humans. Read the rest... Religious pilgrimage sites hold clues to antibiotic resistance Scientists are studying the sites of seasonal religious celebrations, like Rishikesh in India, to understand how human travel helps spread antibiotic resistance around the globe. Read the rest... How has the American diet changed since 1970? The answer to that question was not exactly what I was expecting. Time has a couple interactive charts that visualize the changes. Read the rest... Now I Know: Eye Macs In 2009 a Philadelphia high school remotely spied on students through laptop webcams, wrongfully accusing one teenager of taking drugs. 50,000 photos later, the hammer finally came down on the peeping administrators. Dan Lewis reports. Read the rest... Academic publisher tried to stop publication of paper on price-gouging in academic publishing The editorial board of the journal Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation has threatened to resign because the academic journal's corporate owners, Taylor and Francis, have ordered them not to publish a paper critical of the academic publishing industry. Read the rest... What's it like to be hypnotized? Carla Sinclair falls under the spell of a hypnotist. Read the rest... How Hayek bred a race of elite monsters Though he's been dead for more than 20 years, Friedrich Hayek is the darling of the free market, practically a saint. Read the rest... Snowdenbot performs tele-diagnosis and offers aid to reporter who had first epileptic seizure Edward Snowden routinely hangs around at the New York ACLU offices by means of a BEAM telepresence robot, through which he can meet with journalists for "face-to-face" interviews. Read the rest... Apple adds privacy-protecting MAC spoofing (when Aaron Swartz did it, it was evidence of criminality) Apple has announced that it will spoof the MAC addresses emitted by its wireless devices as an anti-tracking measure, a change that, while welcome, is "an umbrella in a hurricane" according to a good technical explainer by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jeremy Gillula and Seth Schoen. Read the rest... LA to pay $215K to man who wore KKK hood to city meeting, was ejected. He is black. The City of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $215,000 to settle a free-speech lawsuit brought by a Venice boardwalk vendor who was booted from of a public meeting because he wore a Ku Klux Klan hood, and a t-shirt that displayed the n-word. Read the rest... Bombs filled with bats carrying incendiary devices In January of 1942, as the U.S was entering World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist (and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt) named Lytle Adams submitted the design of a new weapon to the White House, suggesting that it could be effective against the Japanese. Read the rest... US indicts Romanian as hacker 'Guccifer,' who brought Dubya's paintings to world Marcel Lazar Lehel, a former Romanian taxi driver, has been indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on charges that he is responsible for the crimes of the hacker "Guccifer." The U.S. Read the rest... Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system "Although fasting diets have been criticised by nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing new white blood cells, which fight off infection." Read the rest... The total area of solar panels it would take to power the world, Europe, and Germany (via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival) Read the rest... Photographer Nick Meek's gorgeous flower petal volcano explosions The images were created for an ad campaign promoting Sony's new 4K televisions. Read the rest... Duration of WWII vs duration of movies about WWII In today's What If?, Randall "XKCD" Munroe tries to answer the question: "Did WWII last longer than the total length of movies about WWII? Read the rest... A book that plays tic-tac-toe with you Tic Tac Tome is a book that's smart enough to play tic-tac-toe with you – no batteries required. You start on the first page by deciding which of the 9 spots to place your X. Read the rest... Inside the design of 3D printed back-braces and fairings Joris writes, "I did an interview with Scott Summit who designs beautiful 3D printed fairings and back braces. 3D printing lets the customer customize them and makes the orthopedic implant become much more a part of themselves and their lives." SS: I feel that 3D printing and medicine make for a natural marriage. Read the rest... Why carry a grappling hook in your luggage? John Edgar Park, director of digital production & technology at DisneyToon Studios, photographed the contents of his travel bag for Cool Tools. Read the rest... Nuria Riaza's ballpoint portraits Spanish artist Nuria Riaza creates magical ballpoint portraits. (via Hi-Fructose) Read the rest... Automata clock-monster with moving eyes Automata builder Dug North sez, "I combined my love of clocks with my affinity for wooden monsters to create this monster clock with moving eyes. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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