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Mar 15, 2010, 04:23PM
Restoring Van Gogh's The Bedroom
The Van Gogh Museum employees working on the piece have started a blog to document the process.
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Mar 12, 2010, 12:32PM
Everyday semiotics
Slate's six-part series on signs in our everyday life. Pt. 1, "The Secret Language of Signs," below.
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Mar 08, 2010, 01:12PM
The hell that is Japan
Anime sucks, you all smoke too much, stop putting meat in everything, etc etc etc.
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Mar 08, 2010, 10:52AM
How we lost the cure for scurvy
By 1750, scurvy had been pretty much universally conquered. But jump ahead to 1911, and suddenly you have Royal Navy surgeons completely ignorant of what causes the disease or how to treat it.
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Mar 05, 2010, 10:03AM
"All our theories are wrong..."
7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, 6,000 years before Stonehenge, another temple was being built.
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Mar 03, 2010, 12:05PM
Paul F. Thompkins on the ethics of ImprovEverywhere
"I am not a fan of chaos. Personally, chaos makes me nervous, cause it makes things seem downright chaotic."
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Mar 02, 2010, 11:37AM
The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society
Celebrating 100 years since Freud's visit to Coney Island: the Dream Films, 1926 - 1972.
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Feb 24, 2010, 05:27PM
What is this thing called?
Great, one more thing to think about that will keep me up all night.
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Feb 22, 2010, 09:39AM
Warp speed would kill
Uh... do not make it so.
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Feb 18, 2010, 10:07AM
The Great Trans-Siberian Railroad
Google and Russian Railways lets you take a trip.
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Feb 17, 2010, 12:57PM
4 years ago, Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak after a battle with cancer
"The doctors told him they were going to give him back him back his ability to eat, drink, and talk. But the doctors were wrong, weren't they?"
An intimate profile from Esquire.
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Feb 17, 2010, 10:25AM
Mathematic Hallucinations
What the "whirly, spirally, tunnel-vision-like patterns" of our hallucinations tell us about how our brains are wired.
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Feb 16, 2010, 12:48PM
Music for Real Airports
A collaboration between interactive artists Human and musicians The Black Dog.
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Feb 15, 2010, 10:43AM
An interview with Phil Jones
You've been following the whole Climategate scandal, right?
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Feb 12, 2010, 11:26AM
Dr. Wertham and the Comics Code
Fresh from the March 1948 issue of Collier's.
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Feb 11, 2010, 02:06PM
Nate Hill's Death Bear
The latest in bizarre performance art.
Nate Hill's official website here.
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Feb 10, 2010, 01:52PM
Blackhole simulator
"The colors, children!"
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Mar 09, 2010, 11:11AM
Part-Time Paparazzi Part 2: Awards Season
The "Working Press Photographers" are actually "fucking freaks."
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Feb 26, 2010, 10:27AM
If You Like It Then You Shouldn't Put a Weave On It
As visible as it is, hair is also really personal.
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Feb 19, 2010, 10:58AM
High Fashion Knows No Gender
Nor should it.
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Feb 16, 2010, 11:15AM
Free Markets, Freed Bodies
The fashion industry's beauty standards are horrifying; it's time to stop buying in—literally—to that culture.
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Feb 09, 2010, 09:05AM
Hating Fat, Fat Hating and the Obesity Epidemic
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Feb 02, 2010, 11:04AM
Impossible Role Models
Female celebrities inevitably turn into role models for young women. What needs to change is our expectation that they be perfect.
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Jan 20, 2010, 12:06PM
A Teachable Turnpike Moment
Why it's a good thing the idiots on Jersey Shore are complete and utter idiots.
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Jan 20, 2010, 11:26AM
Death, Desire and Disco Sticks
Antigone and Lacan in Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.”
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Jan 15, 2010, 09:52AM
Cover Your Fucking Mouth When You Cough
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Jan 11, 2010, 09:22AM
Absinthe Fails to Turn College Kids Into Tortured Geniuses
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Dec 30, 2009, 10:41AM
What’s So Wrong With Jersey Shore?
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Dec 24, 2009, 12:57PM
Drowning in Disney
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Dec 22, 2009, 10:44AM
How the Feminist Stole Christmas
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Dec 18, 2009, 11:30AM
God Among Us
The Cult of Celebrity
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Mar 16, 2010, 04:16PM
Marwencol
Mark Hogancamp's replica WWII town -- complete with a pretty tragic backstory.
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Mar 16, 2010, 03:47PM
How's my driving?
Truck driver fails to notice car he's pushing down the highway.
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Mar 15, 2010, 04:23PM
In the upcoming 13th season of PBS' Arthur, the gang gets a new pal: Carl... Carl has Asperger's.
I'll let Brain explain.
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Mar 15, 2010, 10:47AM
If Christopher Walken and Jack Nicholson were in Willy Wonka
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Mar 12, 2010, 03:21PM
Everyone loves a -- Oh My God!
The Diamond Maruti Car Circus in Delhi.
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Mar 12, 2010, 02:20PM
Paris 26 Gigapixels
The high-res panoramic beauty of Paris.
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Mar 11, 2010, 02:35PM
Greatest parade in the world
Completely with skiing Batmen.
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Mar 11, 2010, 09:46AM
Daniel Everett, the Amazonian Piraha Tribe and "xibipiio"
Watch the complete video at ForaTv.
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Mar 10, 2010, 02:10PM
Probably the greatest keyboard cat of all time (yes it's still around)
...NSFW?
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Mar 10, 2010, 09:39AM
Photos of stray cats in Tokyo taken by professional photographers
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Mar 09, 2010, 03:46PM
His greatest role yet
Morgan Freeman as Count Dracula taking a bubble bath in a casket.
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Mar 09, 2010, 12:47PM
Text of the Apocalypse as Graphics
Alban Grimm's exhibit "shows what happens when a typographer-cum-graphic artist is introduced to computer programs and finds that inputting code can lead to outputting incredible visual results."
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Mar 05, 2010, 11:28AM
NYC... in miniature
A project by Sam O'Hare, with original music by Human. More here.
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Mar 04, 2010, 12:41PM
Are you ready for HD vision? No? Oh...