Monthly Archive: April 2007

Apr
25
2007

Mummenschanz on the Muppets

Mummenschanz on the Muppets Footage of swiss mime troop, Mummenschanz… [2, 3, 4]. Jenn and I just watched the episode that these clips were taken from, scary shit.

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Apr
25
2007

Climate change explained!

Connie Meskimen of Hot Springs, Arkansas has a down-to-earth explanation for climate change! What the scientists and the Fifth Column environmentalists bent on wrecking American industry hope that you’ll overlook!

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Apr
25
2007

The next thirty years of war

The British Ministry of Defence has been thinking about the future , and 2037 looks like it’ll be a doozy. Others have been thinking about it too, and they believe they’ll be mainly hot, sweaty, dirty and confusing. Of course, if you’re the Canadian military, you get a science fiction author to write your future …

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Apr
25
2007

Tom Smith’s Free Music.

Tom Smith is your average guy who likes comic books, Harlan Ellison short stories and Julie Newmar in a Catwoman suit (who dosen’t?). Except the thing is, the guy can sing and write music too. And he releases a free song every week at his iTom page. Like most artists his music can be hit …

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Apr
25
2007

SCIENCE!

“UNTIL you experiment with chlorine, you have missed some of the biggest thrills your home laboratory can give you.” Sound like fun? Bet you’ll want to set up your own home chemistry lab and try it out. But don’t stop there – the wonders of hydrogen and mercury await! Make a gas that gives you …

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Apr
25
2007

Map of maps, timeline of timelines

Milestones in graphics, maps, and visualizations. An incredible site for anyone interested in the history of visualization of data. See the first town map from 6200 BCE. Take a look at some of the most important graphics through history, including the London cholera map and the diagrams that made Florence Nightingale’s case, as well as …

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Apr
25
2007

Flower Vase Made By Bees

40,000 bees. 7 Days. One Vase.

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Apr
25
2007

Turn on, tune in, get out

Entheogens and Psychotherapy. A 2001 paper by Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar on the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelics and his own experience with LSD. Now, because of this paper, he is no longer allowed to enter the U.S. [Via MindHacks.]

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Apr
25
2007

121 pints of tears on the wall, 121 pints of tears…

"The average person will eat over 10,000 bars of chocolate, shed 121 pints of tears and have sex more than 4,200 times". A documentary airing tonight in the UK is attempting a new method of visualizing statistics related to an individual’s impact on the environment. Human Footprint is scheduled to air on Channel 4 at …

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Apr
25
2007

Children Having Children

A nine-year-old girl had a baby; her rapist gets twenty-five years. She is not the youngest mother: Lina Medina bore a child at age five. Other young mothers.

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