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Originally posted on The Cider Blog:
Address: The National Cycling Centre, Stuart Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M11 4DQ (Website) Entry Price/Session times: Wed 21st January: 4pm-10:30pm (£3*) Thu 22nd January: 12pm-10:30pm (£3*) Fri 23rd January: 12pm-10:30pm (£3* before 5pm/£6* after 5pm)…

Originally posted on In-Imitable Fragrance Passion:
Eduardo Kac is a Brazilian artist that has always been ahead of his time. In his latest project called “Aromapoetry” he anticipated a new linguistic system. By experimenting with chemical reactions he imagined “the first…

Originally posted on 1 reason a day:
In Brazil, a man with a 30cm knife stuck in his head rides for two hours to get to the hospital… and he survives! Usually a skull and a butcher knife don’t get along that…

It was late and the bottle of wine was slowly emptying and the tongues of cigarette smoke licked my cheeks as they rose and assembled in haze above us. We said we hoped it would rain. There are not many…

Originally posted on Fat Brain Interactive:
Using a technology that has been around for 130 years, a company called Pavegen hopes to create electricity from everyday human activities.http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_tech/~3/GQaIqcj1-IU/index.html

Originally posted on World News – Breaking International News Headlines and Leaks:
News: Norman Foster has become the latest architect to design a Maggie’s Centre offering support to cancer sufferers and has unveiled plans for a timber-framed structure and flower garden in his home…

Originally posted on Modern British Studies Birmingham:
Andrew Jones The nights are drawing in, an African disaster is in the news, and Bob Geldof is swearing on live television. It can only mean one thing: Band Aid is back. Now…

Originally posted on stepping outside to observe:
R. O. Blechman (born 1930) is an American animator, illustrator, children’s-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions.…