A sculpture from Austria that takes the domestic setting and flips it on its head: The upside down house was created by Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozanski, and was built in the Austrian village of Terfens to serve as a tourist attraction. via Giant Sparrow
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Voyager I – about to leave our Solar System
Last week, in the corners of the Internet devoted to outer space, things started to get a little, well, hot. Voyager 1, the man-made object farthest away from Earth, was encountering a sharp uptick in the number of a certain kind of energetic particles around it. Had the spacecraft become the first human creation to “officially” …
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Art exhibit – the native americans who survived the Spanish Colonial period
Here is a new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Children of the Plumed Serpent: the Legacy of Quetzalcoatl You may remember the name Quetzalcoatl as the so-called white-bearded God in Atzec lore. Which Hernán Cortés was supposed to represent and then use to his advantage when he conquered the greatest empire …
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Apple Adds Gay and Lesbian Couple Icons to iOS 6
The new version of Apple’s iPhone operating system comes with new emojis, the popular emoticons that are often used in texting and email, especially by young kids and nerdy adults like me. Two of these new pictograms represent gay and lesbian couples for the first time. The icons are placed next to the previous relationship-related emojis …
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Dropbox offers 3GB more free space – adds “Get more space” page
Back in November we posted about a whole bunch of ways to get more free space on Dropbox, last month we doubled our referral credits, and just last weekend we kicked off Dropquest II. With so many ways to increase the size of your Dropbox, we decided to whip up a new Get Space page to put it all in …
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Listen online to Fiona Apple’s new album – The Idler Wheel…
Emotions are so darn beautiful — that’s the message of music, much of the time. The giggling lilt of a melody, the ennobling swell of a crescendo: Popular songs, especially, often enhance our moods to lift us up, unbreak our hearts, drive us toward liberating confessions and cathartic climaxes. Courting the sublime so aggressively that it often gets …
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The nation’s original Surf Dog competition – June 16, San Diego, CA
See Spot surf at the Loews Dog Surfing Competition – the nation’s original surfing competition for man’s best friend. Dozens of dogs take to the waves in the small dog, large dog and tandem categories. The only event of its kind when first launched, it has grown incredibly with the 2011 contest drawing 65 competitors …
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Timeline of women in space
Hundreds of humans have flown in space. Only 40 women (54 as of 2012) have made the journey — including Eileen M. Collins, who commands the Space Shuttle Discovery on NASA’s historic return to flight. NPR explores the long road that women like her have trod into space: 1960-1962: Ladies in Waiting Twenty-five women report …
Profiles of Southern California marine species – Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Here is a great resource for learning what is hanging out in the coastal waters of Southern California. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium – Southern California Species The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is home to more than 200 species of animals that live in and around the waters of Southern California. With its spectacular natural setting adjacent to …
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Yellowstone – new government petascale supercomputer – to attack chaos theory in climate change
This month, on a barren Wyoming landscape dotted with gopher holes and hay bales, the federal government is assembling a supercomputer 10 years in the making, one of the fastest computers ever built and the largest ever devoted to the study of atmospheric science. The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s supercomputer has been dubbed Yellowstone, …