This is how you do sPAW day. (more…)

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Did you just spend three minutes watching someone cut a carrot? (more…)

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Esperanza Martinez learned that Time Warner had given her the moniker when she received a letter from the cable company. Read the rest

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I'm excited to share that I'll be joining my longtime public radio friend Madeleine Brand as a regular guest on her KCRW news program, “Press Play.” Read the rest

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Louie the organ-playing clown, a 50-year-old ceramic doll, will be returning to the Joyland amusement park in Wichita, after spending ten undoubtedly awful years in the home of an imprisoned sex offender, 39-year-old Damian Mayes.

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I missed this video when Scott Lawson released it in 2013. It's a 50 second timelapse taken over 1.5 hour period, showing some magnetic silly putty surrounding itself around a neodymium magnet. Read the rest

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The worst part of being a beekeeper us pulling out the honey-laden frames from the box and tearing them up to get the honey. The bees hate it and so do I. That's why this new hive design, called Flow, is so cool. Read the rest

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So little in size, so vast in awesomeness.

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“DIYDad” built a VW microbus bed as a birthday gift for his three year old daughter. The bed is on top, and a play space is below. It uses real VW parts scored for free on Craigslist, and the headlights are illuminated. [via]

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Here's the third episode in the 100 Years of Beauty videos. (more…)

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In 1959 Xerox released the 914 photocopier. It weighed 648 pounds, but it was a huge improvement over previous document copying technologies, which used wet chemicals. Read the rest

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Ariel "Space Hack" Waldman and Lisa Ballard created Spaceprob.es, a delightful catalog of the (human-made) space probes flying around our solar system and beyond, from the far-out Voyager 1 to the just-launched DSCOVR. (more…)

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As promised, noise pop pioneers The Jesus and Mary Chain are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their seminal album Psychocandy by playing it start to finish on tour. Read the rest

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Check out this surprisingly twisted and odd trailer for CRUMBS, a feature length science fiction film from Ethiopia.

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ECards says this video may be the Platonic ideal of Russian YouTube videos.

It has every element necessary:

• A bear.
• Someone engaging in reckless behavior around a large animal.
• People speaking calmly in Russian while faced with certain death.
• Bleakness.
• Raw meat.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-XXix0WoeAs/this-is-the-platonic-ideal-of.html

This is a very enjoyable one-hour video of Adam Savage sharing excellent model-construction tips as he paints and assembles a large cosmonaut model kit.

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"Other than that, it looks like a normal fish."

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If you've been telling yourself that Sony's $1200 Walkman is actually a highly-polished, premium product—say, the audio equivalent of a professional DSLR camera—know that it is also making a $155 SD card to use with it for "premium sound." Consider yourself informed what sort of person Sony thinks you are, if you are thinking of buying that Walkman. [via @chrisheinonen]

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Supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies blast radiation and ultra-fast winds outward, as illustrated in this artist's conception from NASA/JPL-Caltech. Read the rest

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The families injured feel disorderly conduct is a light charge for the racist jerk who ruined a hockey game for some Native American kids, spraying them with beer and yelling racial slurs.

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