Monthly Archives: August 2021

Matches, inventive stop motion studies by Tomohiro Okazaki | The Kid Should See This

Put on your favorite seven and a half minutes of music, full screen the video above, and hit play. This silent series of stop motion studies riffs and reinvents the structures of a simple matchstick over and over again. The … Continue reading

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How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE

[…] Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources… The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists … Continue reading

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What Could Happen in a World That’s 4 Degrees Warmer | WIRED Brand Lab

Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for Western Digital. Comedian Aparna Nancherla explores how global warming and climate change will directly affect our lives 100 years from now when the average global temperature is projected to increase by 4 degrees Celsius, … Continue reading

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Studying the Brain with… Quantum Mechanics?

Quantum mechanics may not seem like it has anything to do with human psychology, but some psychologists are starting to borrow concepts from the field to help make human behavior more predictable. Hosted by: Hank Green […]

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London-Based Illustrator Edward Luper’s 36 Views of the BT Tower

In the early 1830s, Katsushika Hokusai created 36 Views of Mt. Fuji. Images from the series would go on to becomes some of the most iconic images Japan has ever produced, their vast reach and influence being almost impossible to … Continue reading

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The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail | Theresa Elly

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Little Amal the giant puppet’s London itinerary has been revealed | Time Out

Written by Rhian Daly Monday 9 August 2021 Join the nine-year-old refugee on her London adventure Little Amal, a 3.5-metre-tall puppet of a nine-year-old girl, is doing something most humans couldn’t manage after 18 months on the sofa: walking 8,000km … Continue reading

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Brazilian Skipper Caterpillar | Rebecca Herbert/Tired Earth

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Motörhead’s Ace of Spades played on church bells works so much better than it should | The Poke

Of all the covers of Motörhead’s classic headbanger, Ace of Spades, you could reasonably expect to hear, it’s unlikely that ‘played on church bells’ ever made the list. However, at the Torenfestival – Tower Festival – in Weert, Netherlands, someone … Continue reading

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Poet And Muse

Originally posted on yaskhan:
I write from my soul to yours I undress my heart to show you my scars. Crimson-tinged words need no pages Scattering into synapse spaces. The pain spills as blood blue ink Dipped in the inkwell…

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