Duran Duran is suing its fan club -- not the fans mind you, but the company that runs its fan club, Worldwide Fan Clubs -- for not paying the band its cut of membership fees.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tBkkBK2wrSc/duran-duran-suing-its-fan-cl.html

Twenty years ago, William Barker's Schwa artwork revealed a world of alien abductions, stick figure insanity, conspiratorial crazy, and a hyper-branded surveillance state. It's now more relevant than ever. Read the rest

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Sign Painters looks to be a fascinating book and documentary about the traditional art and craft of hand-drawn signage that is being lost to digital prints and die-cut vinyl. The film is playing at venues around the US right now, including this Sunday (7/27) at the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, Texas!

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Unlike some of its stablemates, the Amazon-owned comics platform is to allow authors and publishers to distribute their work without the shackles of proprietary rights-management, writes Cory Doctorow Read the rest

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A boy in India was brought in with swelling in his right jaw; doctors removed a myriad of tiny, toothlike growths caused by a condition called composite odontoma.

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A Boeing MD-83 passenger jet carrying 110 passengers and 6 crew people disappeared while flying over the Sahara from Burkina Faso to Algeria. Reports from aviation officials in the region confirm the plane has crashed, though the site of the crash and the fate of the people on board are yet to be confirmed.

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It was invented by Thanom Chakkapak in the seaside town of Si Racha—that sauce, however, isn't quite the same as the stuff you know and love.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JmFkIv8psN0/on-the-origins-of-sriracha.html

Adam Harvey's "Computer Vision Dazzle" is designed to keep facial-recognition computer algorithms from seeing the real face. But how to wear the dazzle for days while going about everyday life?

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3e0d3UDlNTg/antisurveillance-face-camoufla.html

"The trouble always starts," writes Elizabeth Green, "when teachers are told to put innovative ideas into practice without much guidance on how to do it."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uEvU2TWSgsg/why-math-teaching-never-improv.html

Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, a hero who has treated hundreds of people in the recent deadly outbreak, is in a Doctors Without Borders isolation ward after working at a hospital where three nurses had previously died of the virus.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ZJn8o-4dC1E/the-top-ebola-doctor-in-sierra.html

We have lots of new information about Mars, writes Alexandra Witze at Nature, but scientists are still struggling with what that information means and how all the parts work together.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mmSUUskM6mM/despite-new-data-mars-remains.html

But they're going to be on-by-default, opt-out-only in the near future anyway, because the Great Firewall of Cameron is based on lazy populism, not evidence. Read the rest

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Is "brain eating" a metaphor or exaggeration of how the amoeba works? No, actually. It really does literally eat brains. Here's how.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QzCzcqXgXEU/how-does-a-brain-eating-amoeba.html

From the Wellcome Image Collection, this is how you pumped your breasts 150 years ago. Via the fantastic Twitter feed of Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nmJBi9y279k/this-is-a-19th-century.html

Open science advocate Michael Nielson writes about how scientists can infer causation in situations where it's not possible to a randomized controlled trial.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/15pErhuKSHY/if-correlation-doesnt-imply.html

It holds a singular place in the American imagination today, but there was a lot of opposition to the Apollo program as it was happening.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mDBwllc-4NU/the-apollo-program-was-not-alw.html

It's not caused by erosion. Instead, the rock, itself, forms the arch and the erosion just washes away everything else around it.

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Grist has an interview with activist and writer Paul Kingsnorth, a former environmentalist who has decided that the right way to deal with the end of the world is to just accept its inevitability.

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The internet provider's COO admits the rep's retention attempts were “painful to listen to,” but that he “did a lot of what we trained him...to do.” Read the rest

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This NASA image of Mercury has been making the internet rounds anew this week, but has been widely reposted with some not-entirely-accurate information.

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