Author: Joe Meiser

Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/06/classical-greek-sculpture-gifs-by-zach-dougherty/

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Urban Species: Kinetic Lifeforms Created by U-Ram Choe

http://www.daz3d.com/

http://io9.com/3d-printed-spiderbot-is-freakishly-lifelike-better-dan-758442700

http://www.shapeways.com/materials/elasto-plastic

The year 2012 brought the science discovery of the century, at least so far. A team of physicists may have found the missing link in our picture of the universe, the Higgs boson. This is the human story behind the hunt for the world’s most elusive particle: http://nyti.ms/13D4IHI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Higgs_Boson

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The New York Times

Shared publicly – Mar 18, 2013

Paint a bullseye on it: North Dakota could see a new technological boom in the years to come if the unmanned aerial vehicle business takes off.

Read more about how many academic settings, along with companies and individuals, are preparing for a brave new world in which cheap remote-controlled airplanes will be ubiquitous in civilian air space: http://nyti.ms/16Fg9OM

The Satere-Mawe people of Brazil use intentional bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become a warrior.^[7] The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative and then hundreds of them are woven into a glove made out of leaves (which resembles a large oven mitt), stinger facing inward. When the ants regain consciousness, a boy slips the glove onto his hand. The goal of this initiation rite is to keep the glove on for a full ten minutes. When finished, the boy’s hand and part of his arm are temporarily paralyzed because of the ant venom, and he may shake uncontrollably for days. The only “protection” provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. To fully complete the initiation, however, the boys must go through the ordeal a total of 20 times over the course of several months or even years.^[8]   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraponera

According to RadioLab’s podcast on speed, light can be slowed down to travel at just 15 miles per hour or halted entirely in a cloud of very cold sodium.  Also, the nervous system in the human body sends signals at 60 miles per hour, which seems a bit slow until you consider that the signals don’t have to travel very far.  Also, one linear foot of computer cable slows a signal down by one nano second–this apparently matters a great deal in high frequency trading, which now makes up 60% of the stocks traded in the New York Stock Exchange.

http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/

http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/marine-life/400-pound-lobster.htm

http://www.studio360.org/2012/aug/03/object-breast-cancer/

http://youtu.be/Zy_l4z2TrN0?t=3m31s