Without question, Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is the bookiest book I own. It is a museum-quality artifact, which in a few more years will cease to be made, or at least made affordably. It is a work of art that reproduces the famous 100 Japanese woodblock prints that the artist Hiroshige created of Edo. Read the rest

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I wear glasses. Mine are good ones, and I have little clippy sunglass “covers” for them that are polarized and work pretty well too. But they’re sorta delicate, and really take two hands to properly fix to my specs. Not ideal for driving, when I may want to stick something on quickly and with a single hand. Read the rest

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BB co-conspirator Ariel "Spacehack" Waldman points us to a free NASA conference on future space-tech happening near Kennedy Space Center January 27-29! Read the rest

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Indonesian metal guitar prodigy Meliani Siti Sumartini (Mel) is 15. (more…)

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A Florida judge ordered Anheuser-Busch to pay a $.50 a six-pack refund to anyone who bought their beer deceptively labeled as "Imported" and "Japan's Prime brew."

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Remember as a kid using a magnifying glass and the sun to kill ants? Filipino artist Jordan Mang-osan employs the same technique to create beautiful "solar drawings." Read the rest

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The sales pitch for this "Unexplosive hanging loudspeaker" is seemingly a masterpiece of machine translation: Read the rest

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John Wines was pleased when the scratch-off lottery ticket he bought at a New Mexico gas station turned out to be worth $500,000.

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Michael from Muckrock sez, "Through FOIA requests, MuckRock users have been helping keep watch on the watchers, and recently Todd Feathers's FOIA request to the DHS resulted 91 pages worth of the agency's social media searches, from the occult (seeking the "devil" in August) and creepy ("happy camp") to downright terrifying ("black market ebola")." Read the rest

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San Diego County's Department of Animal Services announced a 5.5 foot Colombian rainbow boa emerged from an office building's toilet. Read the rest

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Researchers are developing robots to explore volcanoes, like the one on the Big Island of Hawaii that's flowing actively right now, threatening to slurp up homes in its wake. Read the rest

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"Pulpy Days," by Darrin Fullerton. (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!)

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It's in Bohol, Philippines.

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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a bigger and sharper photograph of the iconic Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation". Read the rest

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At $300, the 10th Doctor Women's Coat is too pricey to be a cosplay accessory, but luckily it's also the kind of very beautiful garment you could wear every day, made from a wool/viscose blend, fully lined, and tailored for easy motion (it reminds me of the streetwear for superheroes from Volante). (via Geeky Merch)

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MIT researchers developed a compact thermal-imaging rig that mounts to the roof of cars to detect energy leaks in homes and other buildings as they drive by.

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Australian photographer Emma Phillips captured the strange, minimalist landscape of a salt refinery near Western Australia's Nullarbor Plain. Read the rest

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Edoardo Flores has a collection of nearly 9,000 "Do Not Disturb" signs from almost 200 countries around the world. Read the rest

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Politicians will do anything to avoid embarrassing questions about how money corrupts politics, but we're walking to remind them they can't dodge them forever. Make a video to cheer us on! Read the rest

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Hits and misses from a year packed with big-screen science fiction and fantasy Read the rest

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