Post Overview
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Expression
8 years ago
+23 23 0Artist Jan Vormann uses Legos to 'repair' war-damaged buildings.
Artist Jan Vormann identifies damaged buildings and plugs the gaps with brightly colored Lego bricks.
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Current Event
8 years ago
+25 25 0Twitter accounts hacked with anti-Dutch messages.
A large-scale Twitter hack has affected dozens of verified accounts, including those of Amnesty International, Unicef, the European Parliament, and Forbes. The hackers tweeted out the same Turkish message comparing the Dutch to the Nazis, and changed ...
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Image
8 years ago
+14 14 0Central staircase in the Grands Magasins Dufayel department store, Paris, late 19th century.
Art Nouveau style
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Current Event
8 years ago
+27 27 0Zebrafish extract heals a broken heart
Molecules surrounding zebrafish heart cells may yield promising new candidates for cardiac arrest treatment.
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Expression
8 years ago
+26 26 0Smear campaign: Guerrilla artist remixes adverts with acid
Mutating works of public advertising with corrosive acid, this cunning urban interventionist hijacks posters from bus stops and subway stations, then adds his own message into the mix.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+35 35 0 x 1To understand others' minds, 'being' them beats reading them.
We tend to believe that people telegraph how they're feeling through facial expressions and body language and we only need to watch them to know what they're experiencing -- but new research shows we'd get a much better idea if we put ...
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Expression
8 years ago
+28 28 0The dilemma with reverse graffiti.
We all know what graffiti is. How it’s considered a crime for defacing public property but what about reverse graffiti? Reverse graffiti is art that is created by literally removing dirt from surfaces. Its graffiti by means of subtracting dirt and cr ...
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Current Event
8 years ago
+23 23 0Don’t kill us, R2-D2: MEPs warn against robot revolt
European lawmakers don’t think Terminator-like robots will become overlords of the human race just yet, but they do want rules to make sure robots have built-in kill switches and cannot be used as weapons.The greater a robot’s learning capability or ...
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Review
8 years ago
+6 6 0Swimming with ghosts at the spectacular sutro baths.
Water parks used to be a lot different before the days of chlorine pools.
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Expression
8 years ago
+9 9 0Letterheady is an online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters. We don’t care about the letter’s content, just its design.
An archive of vintage letterheads belonging to various legends, icons and infamous characters through history, we can get a peek into the private world of their writing desks when letters were still king. Some fabulous typography and design ensues of ...
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Review
8 years ago
+30 30 0 x 2Why super-smart people may be drawn to a life of crime
A new book finds that high-IQ people have higher rates of crime—and are less likely to get caught. Many prevailing theories of intelligence suggest that people with lower IQs are the ones most likely to break the law, since impulsivity, struggles at ...
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Interactive
8 years ago
+9 9 0 x 1Explore the past and present of street art around the world with Google Street Art
Street Art Project, a new initiative to document and preserve the often transient nature of street art. The project launched with over 5,000 high resolution images including work that no longer exists, like the 5Pointz murals in Long Island City or t ...
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Video/Audio
8 years ago
+5 5 0There will be no next time -the kids
Videoclip from Belgian punk rock band (1981)
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Current Event
8 years ago
+17 17 0Patient groups are supposed to represent patients. But many have deep ties to industry.
More than eight in 10 patient groups take money from the medical industry.
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Image
8 years ago
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Analysis
8 years ago
+14 14 0 x 1The plan for the food supply.
Destroying the natural medicine in the food supply sure would be a highly effective way to create more customers for Big Pharma, wouldn't it? I think it's all part of the "keep the population sick and diseased" plot being carried ...
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Analysis
8 years ago
+29 29 0From sea to plate: how plastic got into our fish
Eight million tonnes of waste plastic ends up in the sea each year. Fish eat it - and then we do. How bad is it for us?
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Expression
8 years ago
+7 7 0The graffiti streets of Fish Island.
Ah Fish Island, a place we know well. That old industrial area, It’s also a good place to spot graffiti and street art. The old warehouses are now full of artist studios so i suppose it shouldn’t be a suprise, the canal waterfront in particular is ...
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Analysis
8 years ago
+14 14 0The Women of the Ku Klux Klan” — 1920s
Yes, there was a Women’s KKK.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+31 31 0Substance in crude oil harms fish hearts, could affect humans as well.
Experiments provide direct evidence of how phenanthrene causes irregular heartbeat and weaker contractions of heart cells.Urban air pollution, laden with PAHs, has been implicated in cardiac distress. The current study points the finger at phenanthre ...




















