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As Cassini neared the Saturn moon Dione it captured this image of the moon in front of Saturn’s rings. When the image was taken Cassini was 158,000 km / 98,000 miles away on 17 August. We see the southern part…

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All images courtesy of BOND/360 The Kathputli colony, located on the outskirts of New Delhi, is where families of magicians, puppeteers, acrobats, and artists converge. Hand-built by the residents over decades, the colony is an outward expression of the performers’ unique…

Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual – first published in 17th-century London and reprinted in hundreds of subsequent editions – both taught and titilated through the early modern period and beyond. ift.tt/eA8V8J via The Public Domain Review…

Michael Ferris Jr. designs mosaic immortal portraits. Made out of reclaimed wood, hand painted with vivid and brilliant colors, he translates the voyage of a mortal becoming a semi-god, confronting the humanistic presence to the abnormal traits he acquired. The…

As children, we’re told to blow away dandelion feathers, or seeds, and make a wish. Vegetal artist Duy Anh Nhan Duc calls these silky stands “egrets,” like the snow-white bird; for Dandelion, he teamed up with Paris-based photographer Isabelle Chapuis…

Have you ever been staring at the screen on your phone so long that you feel like a zombie? Well, Steve Cutts illustrates this bizarre technology, zombie-like phenomena as a terrible reality. His vividly colored illustrations and animations cleverly and…

Woman against a giant sago palm. The feathers Kombai women wear as a sign of beauty include those of chickens and cockatoos. Hunter at rest in a tree house. Only men sleep in tree houses. Women sleep in small houses…

Dog ejector seat and suit as used to Soviet suborbital rocket flights, c. 1955. (Photo: © The open joint-stock company ‘Research, Developement & production Enterprise "Zvezda"/ State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO/Courtesy Science Museum London) In 1957, the Soviet space program…

Here are a couple more images from Cassini’s final flyby of the Saturn moon Dione. The image above was taken as Cassini was heading towards the moon. The impact basin on the lower right is called Evander and is about…

Mike Winkelmann has been creating a daily illustration since 2007. Now over 3,000 images in, his work has started to veer into science fiction territory. Artist Mike Winkelmann has been making an illustration every day for eight years. As his…

Dior Homme unveiled its Fall/Winter 2015 campaign and fashion film, featuring model and actor Boyd Holbrook photographed and directed by Willy Vanderperre. The post Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2015 Campaign appeared first on Fucking Young!. ift.tt/eA8V8J via Fucking Young! fuckingyoung.es

‘Modern Venus of 1947, Coney Island’. (Photo: Courtesy Brooklyn Museum Collection) Coney Island has long been an accessible, one-day vacation for New Yorkers wanting to escape the heat. The first amusement ride was built in 1876 and from that time…

for-all-mankind: DSCOVR releases first image!
 Just under a month after arriving at the L1 LaGrange point, the DSCOVR spacecraft took its first photograph of Earth July 6.
 The photo was taken using three different images taken by the spacecraft’s 4 megapixel…

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Despite appearances, the sky is not falling. ift.tt/1JZnLSz via APOD ift.tt/1c2tsI7

Hovertext: I’m going to the Kuiper Belt, where they know how to treat a lady! New comic!Today’s News: In case you missed it, tickets are now an sale for all three of this years’ BAHFestses!  ift.tt/1JlB6z5 via Saturday Morning Breakfast…

Alex Dodson describes himself as "a technology teacher at a secondary school tasked with inspiring the next generation of designers." We’ve no idea what he does in the classroom, but we’re guessing his sideline business, "Burned by Design," takes care…

It is every parent’s nightmare. Luckily the 350-year-old Paolo Porpora oil on canvas was insured, and the boy’s family will not have to pay for the restoration. ift.tt/eA8V8J via News : NPR ift.tt/1u4qnCW