What we don't understand about the speed of light Keep Calm and Carry On Filing Trademarks Photo taken by a beer can Rauch Brothers animate American stories What reward does your brain actually seek? Big Ben is listing Secret US Court Order demands email data for WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum Occupy Sesame Street Turning a 2l soda-bottle into a "lightbulb" Snoop Dogg portrait in marijuana by artist Jason Mecier Occupy Wall Street Sign of the Day Skull shot-glass It's Raining Zombies on Wall Street Edible pencil made from licorice root Occupying Los Angeles: portraits Did a right-wing agent provocateur instigate Air and Space Museum pepper-spray chaos? Snowy slopes of Saturn's moon Book news: "Rapture of the Nerds" and Little Brother II What we don't understand about the speed of light
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 10, 2011 12:46 pm Last June, researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology published the results of an experiment that proved that light does not move faster than light—specifically, that single protons can't move faster than the official speed of light under certain conditions. Today, Skulls in the Stars—the nom de Internet of a UNC Charlotte ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 10, 2011 12:39 pm At The Awl, Maria Bustillos authored an excellent feature about the Keep Calm and Carry On poster, which became a huge hit 60 years after it was first printed by the British government. An entrepreneur recently obtained a trademark on the phrase and is already firing papers at competitors, even those who popularized the vanishingly ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 10, 2011 12:25 pm This gorgeous photo of a statue in England called The Angel of the North was taken by Justin Quinnell, over the course of three months, using a pinhole camera made out of a beer can. Yes, the parabola is the path of the Sun, with the highest peak being June 21. New Scientist has more ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 10, 2011 12:18 pm Turnstyle's Jeremy Helton interviewed Emmy-nominated artists Mike and Tim Rauch, who are helping a national oral history project retell its most compelling stories through animation.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 10, 2011 12:13 pm Dopamine Jackpot! Sapolsky on the Science of... by FORAtv Dopamine does a lot of things, but you're probably most familiar with it as the chemical your brain uses as a sort-of system of in-game gold coins. You earn the reward for certain behaviors, usually "lizard-brain" type stuff—eating a bowl of pudding, for instance, or finally ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 10, 2011 11:47 am Big Ben was completed in 1858 and it sits on a site that is both directly next to a river, and surrounding by subterranean construction work. With that in mind, it's probably not a huge surprise to find that the famous clock tower is just a bit tilted these days—by an angle of .26 degrees. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 10, 2011 04:55 am The Wall Street Journal was the first to report tonight that Jacob Appelbaum, a hacker, security researcher, and human rights activist, is the subject of a secret court order demanding his email data for the last two years. Sonic.net, a small ISP, went to great trouble and expense to fight the order but lost. Google ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 10, 2011 01:44 am There's something inevitable about Tautr's "Occupy Sesame Street" set, but that doesn't mean I don't like it. After all, most of us learned how to think about concepts like "fairness" from these characters. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 09, 2011 10:39 pm Brazilian favela-dwellers without reliable electricity have an alternative means of supplying light to enclosed spaces that have no/insufficient windows (either because they are abutted on all sides by other buildings, or because the walls are made of materials that make it impractical to add windows). They suspend 2l soda bottles filled with a water/bleach solution ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 09, 2011 10:32 pm Artist Jason Mecier has used candy, food, pills and the actual garbage of actual celebrities to construct celebrity portraits. This new Snoop Dogg portrait is made of marijuana joints, marijuana leaves and stems, and what looks to be hashish. The artist information says it's valued at $1,500. I wonder if it's legal to buy this ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 09, 2011 10:27 pm I feel like there are so many excellent signs at these Occupy Wall Street (and Everywhere) protests, we should just be featuring one a day on Boing Boing while the movement lasts. All these mainstream news reporters keep saying "But what do they want?," so maybe posting one excellent sign a day is the way ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 09, 2011 09:48 pm Neatoshop's $10 "Doomed Skull Shot Glass" is a pretty stylin' way of presenting your ethanol.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 09, 2011 08:32 pm Bob "dj BC" Cronin sez, "Last winter Big D and The Kids Table (the ska/punk outfit I have worked with, you may remember) recorded a kicking dubby punk song called "It's Raining Zombies On Wall Street." Funny how predictive it now seems. Video from the recent protests has been cut together to make a pretty ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 09, 2011 05:27 pm The Matitizia is an edible pencil made from (delicious, delicious) licorice root, created by Cecilia Felli. (via Neatorama)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 09, 2011 04:01 pm Noe Montes shot some beautiful portraits of people at city hall in Los Angeles, at the "Occupy LA" protests. (thanks, Jesse Thorn)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 09, 2011 03:41 pm At Fire Dog Lake and at American Spectator, evidence indicating that Patrick Howley, Assistant Editor of right-wing rag The American Spectator, acted as an agent provocateur at an anti-war protest outside the Air and Space Museum yesterday, leading to an incident in which a number of protesters were maced. Above is a photo (slightly modified ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 09, 2011 03:22 pm Researchers report that Saturn's moon Enceladus is covered in superfine powdery snow. From National Geographic: "The particles are only a fraction of a millimeter in size … even finer than talcum powder," study leader Paul Schenk, a planetary scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, said in a statement. "This would make ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 09, 2011 02:40 pm Two bits of glad tidings: first, Charlie Stross announces that we've turned in the manuscript for our collaborative, post-Singularity comic novel Rapture of the Nerds; second, my agent Russ Galen has sold Homeland, the sequel to my 2008 novel Little Brother, to Tor, in "a significant deal."
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