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Teddies Boldly Go Where No Bear Has Gone Before [Space]io9 - 12 hours ago England’s newest astronauts are plush. Last week, the Cambridge University Spaceflight program sent four brave teddy bears into suborbital space as part of a program to get young people interested in space exploration … Also tagged: space, science, spaceflight, high altitude balloon, experiments |
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Spend Time with Your Own Private Moon [Photography]io9 - 18 hours ago In this series of photographs by Russian artists Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov, people enjoy private moments with their own personal crescent moon, eating meals with it, having conversations with it, and taking it … Also tagged: art, moon, space porn |
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Sexy Adventure Pulps That Leap Off the Page [Art]io9 - Nov 21, 2008 Nothing like an adventure tale of sea monsters and lust to make you feel like the action is leaping off the page and straight into your credulous brain. Photographer Thomas Allen knows that too. He creates these images … Also tagged: art, books, thomas allen |
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Structures with Unspecified Functions [Architecture]io9 - Nov 17, 2008 This is what an M.C. Escher painting would look like if it became an architectural blueprint. On BLDG BLOG, Geoff Manaugh calls our attention to the work of Belgian photographer Flip Dujardin who creates fictional … Also tagged: art, architecture, fantasy, flip dujardin |
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Texting Thumb Sore? Adapt Your Body to Fit Your Technology [Photography]io9 - Oct 26, 2008 Technology and design don’t always mesh well with the human body. You get earbuds that fall our of your ears, glasses that slip down the bridge of your nose, and keypads that leave our thumbs worn ragged. While … Also tagged: design, human, body modification, marcia nolte |
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Radio Girls on the Old-School, High-Tech Assembly Line [Retro Futurism]io9 - Oct 23, 2008 In the mid-1920s, these women were the equivalent of today's circuit board builders. Called "coil winders," they worked winding transformer coils for radios in a Philadelphia factory. Featured on the Shorpy blog, this … Also tagged: technology, radio, bigpic true, retro futurism, coil winder |
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Spectators at a Show for the Dying World [Global Warming]io9 - Oct 22, 2008 This image of a whale's bleached bones in Antarctica documents the disturbingly beautiful effect of climate change on the planet. It's an image by Sebastian Copeland, one of 18 photographers who entered their work in a … Also tagged: global warming, climate change |
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Nanofarm Your Body for Fun and Profit [Photography]io9 - Oct 22, 2008 If you've ever thought that selling your kidney, ova, or sperm sounded like a handy way to make some cash, it's time to consider body farming. Michael Burton's photographs show how advances in biotech will change the … Also tagged: art, nanotech, biotech, human, farming, michael burton |
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The Delicate, Smoke-Filled Beauty of Mad Science [Photography]io9 - Oct 16, 2008 Dan Tobin Smith’s “still life” photographs have shown us the marvels of exploding teddy bears chronicled in fractions of a second. His new series “Hubble Bubble” places us in the middle of a set of mysterious … Also tagged: art, science, experiments, dan tobin smith |
io9 - Sep 28, 2008
Photomicrography is one of the areas where art and science collide, providing us with some truly awe-inspiring images of a largely hidden world. It allows us to see the microscopic play of light over chemical …
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