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bit.ly/2WxLftO Viral Best Buy Training Question Is a Perfect Example of Clueless Corporate Policies by Evil HR Lady on May 26, 2019 When you walk into a Best Buy, or any store, do you expect to be greeted or welcomed…

bit.ly/2EAVNOi We love a good design hack that’s both functional and nice to look at. And we just found our new favorite: magnetic wallpaper. When you hear “magnetic wallpaper,” you might picture an all-black wall or a giant whiteboard wall.…

bit.ly/2JEpLoP Browsers of the world, unite! 89 with 74 posters participating Update : It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the US, and the Ars staff has a long weekend accordingly. 2019 marks 30 years since Tim Berners-Lee worked at CERN…

bit.ly/30KtUg9 A little over half a century ago, chaos started spilling out of a famous experiment. It came not from a petri dish, a beaker or an astronomical observatory, but from the vacuum tubes and diodes of a Royal McBee…

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bit.ly/2JHvFW8 The $80 million Special Ops TALOS exoskeleton failed to develop real-life Iron Man exoskeleton armor. The energy systems and other technology are not ready. However, a dozen components will be developed. Special Ops will spend $16 million to…

bit.ly/2HD6Fx8 arrow Pop Culture David Lynch Drew a Damn Fine Map of Twin Peaks, Washington BY Jake Rossen May 24, 2019 David Lynch and Mädchen Amick in Twin Peaks 1990 ABC/Spelling Ent./CBS Paramount Domestic Television It can be tough even…

bit.ly/2X6Yaj7 noise punk band from Gainesville Floridadownload via bit.ly/2EBkD0B bit.ly/2oyII1J

bit.ly/2ExAEok Quantum physics, the field of science that studies the unpredictable behavior of subatomic particles, could hold the answers to many of life’s most confounding secrets. So says noted physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili. As host of the intriguing documentary Let…

bit.ly/2HCws8z Say “No” Disagreement is the foundation of all improv scenes with toddlers. Accept the reality crafted by them, but do not attempt to add any information of your own. Toddlers have zero respect for your worldview and will be…

bit.ly/2wkPn1q Explanation. via bit.ly/2QppMh0 bit.ly/w1VAF6

bit.ly/2VQ9izt At the grand old age of 63, just four years before his death, Karl Blossfeldt produced his first photography book, the internationally best-selling Urformen der Kunst (1928), later translated into English as Art Forms in Plants. The book’s 120…

bit.ly/2WjzkQ4 A rich book by Oliver Morton delves into science, poetry, art and sci-fi to create a dazzling paean to the past, present and future of the moon via bit.ly/2X6PCJ1 bit.ly/1Sl3dlX

bit.ly/2K3AxUU Presidential campaign poster for nudist Louis Abolafia, 1968. via bit.ly/2JASBGR bit.ly/2ZCdiGS

bit.ly/2X85Dia Happy May Day aka International Workers Day from the Soviet Union! Postcard by V. Shibayev, 1967. via bit.ly/2EyiuTg bit.ly/2ZCdiGS

bit.ly/30EatWx “Pomp Charivari”, or a decorative hunter’s chain made with silver charms, coins, deer antlers, eagle’s claw, and other animal horns and teeth, southern Germany, late 19th – early 20th century. via bit.ly/2VQMboC bit.ly/2ZCdiGS

bit.ly/2K2oDux Circular letter from 1890. via bit.ly/2JD8xrM bit.ly/2ZCdiGS

bit.ly/2W2HkFB On May 21, 1979—40 years ago this week—the White Night Riots erupted in San Francisco after a jury returned a not-guilty verdict for Dan White, who killed Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk. A peaceful rally descended into…

bit.ly/2HzLxbc Insect collections from the Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley. (Via the SFO Museum.) via bit.ly/2YKuloZ bit.ly/2ZCdiGS