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bit.ly/2Xwbs8X In 1965, when James Edward Gunn was in graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, he figured out a way to tell when the universe first lit up with stars. Other astronomers had spotted strange sources of radio…

bit.ly/2XnBn2y Engineer Martin Fitzpatrick of Two Bit Arcade has created the “Etch-A-Snap”, a unique camera powered by Raspberry Pi that very slowly outputs images as magnetic drawings on the attached Pocket Etch-a-Sketch. The camera takes the picture, the picture is…

bit.ly/2XoO9xD “Its architecture… possesses something so singular, so bold, and at the same time so delicate, that it has ever been esteemed one of the handsomest structures.” (From vol. 18 of the 1810 Encyclopaedia Londinensis) “Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very…

bit.ly/2v3uRSm Imagine this: a woman, gunning to become the first female president, who has broadly lefty politics focused on social and economic justice, and who demonstrates careful attention to policy detail. While not a socialist, she accepts the need for…

bit.ly/2VJFvZX Have you ever wondered how mapmakers made bird’s-eye-view maps before the invention of satellites or even hot air balloons? I have and was glad to find Phil Edwards’ video on the subject: Leonardo da Vinci is justly famous for…

bit.ly/2IlG6hJ Rachael, a licensed builder located in Brisbane, sent in her IKEA kitchen project where she (and her team) personalised/ customised/ hacked some parts of it to give it the extra va va voom. She demonstrates a few creative ways…

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bit.ly/2Go09K1 The Pink Project I – Jiwon (K) and Her Pink Things, Seoul, South Korea, Light jet Print, 2014 The Blue Project – Kyungjin and His Blue Things, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Light jet Print, 2017 Color is many-splendored thing —…

bit.ly/2IhYbgC 5 Great Articles about Infidelity: Why We Cheat by Lisa Taddeo – That’s what I want to know. If you’re going to wreck some other person’s world, what’s the good thing you’re going to get? The Adultery Arms Race by…

bit.ly/2v4TsWV Here comes one more hack from me. It’s my deco pink-coloured spare bedroom/ office. And I hope to inspire you with my small bedroom storage idea. Maybe not the most advanced IKEA hack, but it shows one of many…

Vox recently asked a group of writers, advocates, and thinkers about ideas & practices that we accept now that will be unthinkable or barbaric to people living 50 years from now. Kathleen Frydl asserts that “the war on drugs” will…

f52.co/2Ks5YtY One of the most special times of day in Istanbul is breakfast. It’s a ritual, a way of life, and definitely not only for Sundays. A beautiful Turkish breakfast can happen any day of the week, and you can…

bit.ly/2VI591r A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter…

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bit.ly/2UxW2DT If you listen to Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council in the Trump White House, or Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or Karl Rove, or former GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner, or 2012 Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, or Gretchen Carlson, or the Wall…