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Japan Officially Reveals Flying Car
The flying car has been the promise of science fiction and technology expos since the 30s when an airplane engineer decided to try and make a plane drivable on the road. Since then there have been numerous false starts and … Continue reading
Interview: Artist Mohamad Hafez Explores How Multiple Identities Inform His Art and Why He Invests in Education
Formerly a corporate architect, New Haven-based artist Mohamad Hafez (previously) builds intricate sculptures that evoke his home country of Syria. The miniature scenes feature gilded furniture, ornate motifs, and the architectural details of the Middle East, which the artist explores … Continue reading
Australian telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems – ICRAR
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars. Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) … Continue reading
Listed ladies reveals the fight for the women’s loo
Bankhill ladies toilets, Berwick upon Tweed. © Historic England. Ladies loo listing reveals historical gender imbalance of spending a penny – and a look at more listed lavs The recent Grade II listing of a pair of Victorian and Edwardian … Continue reading
Adam Savage Builds an Octopus Puzzle! (Part 1)
(Note: This is a video series we filmed in 2018, before the current pandemic lockdown.) Adam visits the California Academy of Sciences to meet one of its Giant Pacific octopuses and chat with marine biologists to learn about octopus intelligence. … Continue reading
Old Railway Tracks Converge to Form an Arced Pavilion in Sydney by Studio Chris Fox
In 2017, artist Chris Fox utilized decades-old wooden escalators to create a sculptural ribbon above Sydney’s Wynyard Station. His latest project titled “Interchange Pavilion” similarly repurposes vintage railway tracks to construct a 350-square-meter outdoor pavilion. The work is comprised of 250 … Continue reading
How Facebook profits from polarization
“Lies are more engaging online than truth,” says former CIA analyst and diplomat Yaël Eisenstat. “As long as [social media] algorithms’ goals are to keep us engaged, they will feed us the poison that plays to our worst instincts and … Continue reading
DIY to the Extreme: Power Stations to Gyroplanes
These people take the whole do-it-yourself ethos to the nth degree. These are the inventors, the artists, the makers who construct the most astonishingly detailed replicas of airplanes out of manila folders; use access to a river and scrap metal … Continue reading
The Origin of Stripes
Under Magnitude, a permanent structure from MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY, evolves the studio’s invention of a topological-walking stripe-based material system: ‘structural stripes.’
THE OWL ORGAN, A Musical Instrument Made From Owl Garden Ornaments
A couple of weeks ago i went to the nervous squirrels workshop and saw a bunch of his creations and also to pick up His owl organ which has been in the loft for the past 7 years! His owl … Continue reading
