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Are you ready for your 3D mammogram? eBook review: Tough Without a Gun The Conservative Teen Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Race To Make The First Rap Records Begins 6 days until the release of "The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist"! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today) Haunted Mansion funnies: organist's origin Liminal States: tour-de-force horror novel is also a bleak western, a noir detective story, and a dystopian sf story Cucumbers encumber man UK MPs recommend laws compelling Google to censor search results On sci-fi and technology A map to the past Is responding to food as a reward the same thing as food addiction? The chilling history behind a museum's disembodied uterus Woodcut maps Science, sex, and your hands Herman Cain's latest ad. HOWTO build a robotic squirrel-squirting water sentry-gun, with python TSA gets Bruce Schneier booted from House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing 7 days until the release of "The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist"! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today) Fun pencil holder hack for Lego Moleskine HOWTO make yourself into a doll From barn to bibliothek, a library emerges from history The Grammar of Happiness: An Interview with Daniel Everett Chelsea Wolfe, folk-doom diva: the Dangerous Minds session Woman breaks nose at Apple store, sues Lego NXT-ified Friends Robotlab New sculpture by Nemo Gould: Colonel Ostomy eBook Review: Child of Fire How to improve iPhone photos by spending money on stuff Are you ready for your 3D mammogram?
By Xeni Jardin on Mar 27, 2012 12:50 pm Via my friend and fellow cancer-warrior Francesco Fondi of Wired (Italy), news that Fujifilm in Japan is launching what it calls "Real 3D Mammography," a medical imaging system that enables technicians to view mammographic images in 3D. The idea is to see and interpret the detail of internal anatomical breast structures more clearly than is ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 27, 2012 12:39 pm In a break from the typical sci-fi/fantasy based Kindle Singles, I just read a biography of one of my all-time media favorites, Humphrey Bogart. Stefan Kanfer's Tough Without a Gun is a fairly detailed analysis of what makes Bogie so iconic. If you believe the AFI, Bogart is the greatest American film star of all ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 27, 2012 12:09 pm Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski selects the 9 best headlines from The Conservative Teen, a magazine for youngsters that will foster conservative values and counter liberal bias. When I moved to the U.S., one of the first things I ever heard on the radio here was someone talking at length about how he hates bisexual people because ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 27, 2012 11:42 am …and the countdown continues. The Cutting Room Floor From deep in the Clowes archives come a few illustration proposals that caught my eye. I particularly like the one that shows chatroom users as they are and how they imagine themselves to be. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 27, 2012 11:15 am This little comic, written by me and drawn by Christopher in 2007, explains the origin of some of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion's most engaging ghosts: the ballroom organist and the screaming singers who fly out of his organ pipes. This has never seen the light of day before -- it's the closest I've come as ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 27, 2012 09:37 am Liminal States is the debut novel from SomethingAwful editor Zack Parsons, and it's extraordinary. It begins as a grim, relentless western novel that describes a doomed love triangle between a simple lawman, the twisted scion of an land-baron, and a woman who has married one but thinks she might belong with the other. After a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 27, 2012 01:27 am A farmer carries cucumbers to sell in the markets of Allahabad, India. Photo: Jitendra Prakash with Reuters.
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 27, 2012 01:06 am A committee of UK MPs investigating the Internet's role in compromising Britain's privacy laws have concluded that the best way to ensure that court orders demanding suppression of tittle-tattle about the love-lives of celebrities and oligarchs (as well as the criminal misdeeds of giant corporations) is to order Google to censor its search results for ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 26, 2012 10:54 pm Dr. Joline Zepcevski, a sci/tech history researcher, quoted by Jeremy Hsu on why much science fiction is as interesting for the technologies abandoned as those newly invented: "Technology is not pre-determined as 'better'—it becomes better when a society deems it to be better or more advanced. With respect to "The Hunger Games," there is no ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 26, 2012 10:03 pm Io9 has a very cool article about archaeologists using satellite mapping techniques to discover thousands of new sites in the Middle East. These places represent 8,000 years of human habitation and might never have been discovered with old-fashioned "eyes-on-the-ground" archaeology. (Via Dr. Rubidium)
Read in browser Is responding to food as a reward the same thing as food addiction?
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 26, 2012 09:59 pm We've had a couple of posts recently about a hypothesis that links the current increase in obesity with an increase in easy access to foods that are designed to trigger reward systems in the human brain. Basically: Maybe we're getting fatter because our brains are seeking out the recurrent reward of food that makes us ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 26, 2012 09:35 pm To be fair, there are really only a few ways that London's Hunterian Museum would end up with the uterus of a young woman floating in a jar. Given that the museum is home to surgical specimens, many of which were collected in the days before surgery involved anesthesia, it's easy to guess that the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 26, 2012 09:16 pm I really dig creative work that turns a sense of place into art. That's why I'm really getting a kick out of WoodcutMaps.com, which uses Google Maps to create really great geometric art—some clearly map-like, others much more abstract. It all depends on what view of the map you choose to have turned into a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 26, 2012 08:51 pm Here's an interesting fact about sexual dimorphism: On average, if you were born a male, your hands are a little bit different from those of someone who was born a female. Most men have a pointer finger that is a little bit shorter than their ring finger. Most women have a pointer finger that's about ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 26, 2012 06:22 pm Kurt Grandis needed to fight the squirrels in his backyard bird-feeder. So he turret-mounted a Super-Soaker, rigged for computer-control, and used python to program it to detect squirrels (distinguishing them from other critters, such as birds), target them, and squirt them. In this 26 minute technical presentation from Pycon US, he explains how to teach ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 26, 2012 05:58 pm Bruce Schneier was invited to testify about the TSA to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, but at the last minute he was disinvited, after the TSA objected to having him in the room. On Friday, at the request of the TSA, I was removed from the witness list. The excuse was that ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 26, 2012 05:55 pm …and the countdown continues. Alvin says: "We found this drawing tucked away at the bottom of one of Mr. Clowes’s drawers…" The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 26, 2012 05:02 pm In the latest episode of the Gweek podcast (Number 45), I talked about the new line of limited edition Lego Moleskine notebooks. The front cover has a Lego plate built into it. When I brought up this feature, my co-host Michael Pusateri had a great idea -- attach a pencil to a Lego brick so ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 26, 2012 04:54 pm VenusAngelic, a prominent, 15-year-old member of online ball-jointed-doll fandom, describes how she uses cosmetics to make herself look like a doll, narrating it in a kind of whispering, Asian-inflected voice. I confess that this isn't my subculture or interest, and VenusAngelic's opening remarks, "Hello my dolly molly inky pinky cotton candy clouds!" are not the ...
Read in browser From barn to bibliothek, a library emerges from history
By LibraryLab on Mar 26, 2012 04:49 pm Most libraries aren't found in barns, but Jackson (N.H.) Public Library happily makes its new home in one. It's not just any barn, either. Built in 1858 as part of the town's first inn, the barn was dismantled and stored away in 2008. At about the same time, the library was looking to open a ...
Read in browser The Grammar of Happiness: An Interview with Daniel Everett
By Avi Solomon on Mar 26, 2012 04:25 pm Daniel L. Everett is Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University. He is the author of Language: The Cultural Tool and the subject of the documentary A Grammar of Happiness. Avi Solomon: Were there any formative experiences in your childhood that shaped your career? Dan Everett: Well, by far the most important experience in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 26, 2012 03:43 pm [Video Link at Vimeo] Boing Boing pal Richard Metzger produced a series of live artist showcases at SXSW 2012. One of the artists who was new to me from these sessions is Chelsea Wolfe. Richard describes her work: Los Angeles-based Chelsea Wolfe's intense, artful folk dirges bring to mind a slightly morbid young Joni Mitchell ...
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 26, 2012 02:52 pm Evelyn Paswall, 83, is suing Apple for $1 million after walking into the glass door of the Long Island Apple Store and breaking her nose. Her attorney says, "Apple wants to be cool and modern and have the type of architecture that would appeal to the tech crowd, but on the other hand, they have ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 26, 2012 02:47 pm [Video Link] 17-year-old Anika Brandsma combined a Lego Mindstorms NXT set with a Lego Friends Olivia's Inventor's Workshop set to make this cool robot lab. John Park has more on the MAKE blog. To bring Olivia’s enviable robotics workshop to life, Anika added motors, sensors, and the micro controller brain from a Mindstorms NXT set. ...
Read in browser New sculpture by Nemo Gould: Colonel Ostomy
By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 26, 2012 02:30 pm Sculptor Nemo Gould, who exhibits at Maker Faire, has completed a new sculpture, called Colonel Ostomy. [Video Link] Col. Ostomy is a casualty of war. His injuries were great enough that he lost the use of all but his military intelligence. Watch the video to see the gears turn in his great strategic mind, as ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 26, 2012 02:25 pm Sorry to have disappeared; work got a hold of me and I spent a week living on planes. It did give me time to read a lot of Kindle Singles... I really enjoyed Harry Connolly's Child of Fire: a Twenty Palaces Novel -- it is a witty and fast-paced urban fantasy in the genre of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 26, 2012 01:41 pm For MyLifeScoop, I made a quickly-absorbed and extremely trustworthy video guide to apps and gadgets that'll help you take better photos with an iPhone. Better apps and add-on lenses (like PhotoJojo's, right) make a lot of difference, even if you've got a steady hand and good light.
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