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A special kind of joy comes from watching robots totally blow it. Its anybodys guess as to why, but it might be that weve become so saturated with rhetoric hyping up artificial intelligences potential for world domination that watching a…

Threats seem to expose a political plot against the NYC mayor and the BlackLivesMatter movement. When hundreds of cops from around the country and as far away as Canada turned their backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio…

In this as in other domains of public policy, Republicans have not shown a particular affinity for facts. According to reports, one of the first acts of the Republican congress will be to fire Doug Elmendorf, current director of the non-partisan Congressional…

Seattle artist Kyler Martz is an illustrator, painter, and tattoo artist with an expressionist style so unique within his field that it seems to take the whole concept of tattoo work into uncharted territory. While the work of famous tattoo…

On the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, the future of Shanghai awaits.  In what is possibly the largest scale model of a city ever, this mock-up represents China’s most populous metropolis. The exhibit is a look at…

Here is the amazing schedule for the Fall/Winter 2015 shows in Milan. Saturday,  January 17,  2015 9:30  CET  /  3:30am  EST  -­  Corneliani 10:30  CET  /  4:30am  EST  -­  Ermenegildo Zegna 11:30  CET  /  5:30am  EST… » The post Milan…

Here is the amazing schedule for the Fall/Winter 2015 shows in Paris. Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:00 CET / 4:00am EST – Lucien Pellat Finet 13:30 CET / 7:30am EST – 22/04_Hommes 14:30 CET / 8:30am EST – Christophe Lemaire 15:30 CET / 9:30am…

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, NASA scientists attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco announced the detection of organic compounds on Mars. The announcement represents the discovery of the missing “ingredient” that is necessary for the existence…

For the curious, here’s how Gulpo got made! ift.tt/1CXfuHh via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily) ift.tt/gvqPHa

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Do you like to design from scratch? Create something really unique, having no analogues in the virtual world. To burn the midnight oil over each and every element of your design. Leisurely turn over the best way of arranging elements…

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Silverdale, WA     14.4% alc.    90% Grenache 10% Shiraz     (Purchased on 12/17/14) Color & Clarity: Brilliant medium ruby. Aromas: When first opened and poured, sulfur and funky aromas permeated the nose, but most blows off after about 20-30 minutes and then…

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A new residential financing deal packages energy storage with solar panels in a combined rental and lease deal, so homeowners pay no money up front Orix Offers Energy Storage Twist On Solar Leasing was originally published on CleanTechnica. To read…

These high cliffs occur on the surface of a comet. ift.tt/1sWJBbT via APOD ift.tt/1c2tsI7

Here is a book review of Randall Munroe’s What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Questions. Overall, a great book. I recommend it. The post Book Review: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions appeared first on WIRED.…

Illustrated on a Chilean hillside known as Cerro Unitas and surrounded by thousands of smaller geoglyphs, the Atacama Giant, a massive image of a deity used to calculate the movements of the moon, stands as the largest geoglyph ever discovered.…

A TED Talk. It isn’t  the solstice video I was intending to put up, but I liked it better. Yes it’s a solstice day! The December solstice is here. The solstice occurs in a few hours at 23:03 UTC. The calendar…

Watch the Orion spacecraft re-enter the atmosphere from inside the capsule. The audio might be a bit loud. Video ift.tt/eA8V8J via Astronomy News ift.tt/PsAym7

Two parallel mysteries of quantum mechanics, so-called wave-particle duality and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, are in reality one and the same. This is according to a new framework developed by physicists at the National University of Singapore; wave-particle duality relations…