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February 15, 2013

“ TVs now are just much bigger than when I was a kid, and I’ve noticed that we’ll be getting him [Covey, his son] ready for bed or whatever, and if the telly’s on he just turns his head. As soon as he learned to turn his head, he’d turn his head to stare at the screen. And there’s something about the dominance of a screen now in a standard little living room that makes you think, ‘What’s this doing to your brain?‘
In ye olden days they used to shut up babies by dipping their dummies in brandy. I wonder if it will be seen as the same.

Charlie Brooker

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Jon Millward spent six months analyzing a dataset of 10 000 adult performers’ demographic profiles and filmographies.
Here pictured the performers by race and hair colour, from this massive infographic
You can read about the study here though the site is getting pounded and will most probably sink under an ocean of requests any time soon.

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Mitochondrial Eve, Y-Chromosome Adam, and Reasons to Believe | The BioLogos Forum

When presented with the evidence for human population sizes over our evolutionary history, a common point of confusion for evangelicals is how this evidence fits with Mitochondrial Eve. How can we all come from one woman (and one man) but also come from a large population of 10,000 individuals? Aren’t these two observations in conflict?

The answer is no, these lines of evidence fit together.

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garabating:

Fixing the Bot by Goro Fujita

(via orangeyetis)

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February 14, 2013

Frame from Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Robert Richardson, Quentin Tarantino

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February 12, 2013

via swissmiss | How To Walk on Ice

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February 8, 2013

frame from Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Norm Li, Panos Cosmatos

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“ Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development.

C.S Lewis

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February 7, 2013

Jack Kirby

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olio-ataxia:

‘The KMOS spectrograph, shown when it was undergoing tests at the UK Astronomy Technology Center in Edinburgh, before it was shipped to Chile to become a powerful new instrument on the VLT. The 24 robotic arms are visible. (STFC/UKATC/ESO)’

(via 990000)

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January 31, 2013

I’m moving to Montréal in a handful of days, will stay there a year for an animation feature. From Bangkok to Phnom Penh to Montréal, it’s been an interesting ride.
In any case, updates will resume when I land on the frozen soil.

cheers,

-h

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January 26, 2013

ericalba:

Digital Fabrication & Fashion Intersect at Paris Fashion Week

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January 20, 2013

Wires smaller in diameter than light waves boost solar cell efficiency | Ars Technica

A new effort used indium phosphide (InP) nanowires with diameters smaller than the wavelength of the light they were trapping. That trick enabled Jesper Wallentin and colleagues to reach comparable efficiencies and slightly higher voltage than a conventional InP solar cell. While the wires only covered 12 percent of the surface area, they exploited a principle known as resonant trapping to extract over half as much current as a full planar cell of InP. This approach could lead to even greater efficiency at lower cost for solar cells.

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A photo essay on the French Foreign Legion in Djbouti.
Légion étrangère - French Legion on Photography Served

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SpyTalk - The French spy, the CIA, and the Syrian reactor

“It was a major embarrassment for [CIA Deputy Director Stephen R. Kappes ], who kept pushing them to come up with a plan on an almost daily basis,” the first former intelligence official maintains.

“I think the big issue was that CIA couldn’t come up with a way of obtaining the photos. Near East Division management, as well as the Damascus station, was paralyzed, could not come up with a plan, and here the French just drive up and do it.”

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