mark jenkins shows you how to make a plastic bag eating giraffe out of cling wrap and packing tape – an excellent method for making translucent sculptures cheap and easy via wooster collective
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sleep cycle
turns out modern sleep is an anomaly: when given only natural light, humans tend to sleep in a burst of five hours, then wake up for one or two, and fall asleep again for two or three hours. many people who take sleeping aids are trying to combat this kind of sleep, even though these […]
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string theory
before the spanish conquest, the inca empire (1476-1534 AD) spanned farther than any on earth at the time – from argentina to colombia. but there is no evidence of a written language to communicate across these vast distances. instead, the inca are survived by a unique language of knots called quipu that was used to […]
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remote petting 2.0
soon after we learned how to tele-pet a chicken, telepresence is here: on december 29, 2005 mark kroll’s domestic animal telephone was patented – a remote love machine. it allows owners to call their pets, see them through a screen and even deliver affection by becoming warm or dispensing treats. seems like harry harlow‘s dream […]
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daily disaster
this amazing map contains real-time information on disasters of all kinds – earthquakes, bird flu, airplane crashes, meltdowns – happening around the globe. via worldchanging
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molecular seats
feel seating is made of stitched-together upholstered foam balls that can be configured in a variety of ways.
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michelangelo 3d
stanford’s digital michelangelo project has a free application that allows you to explore michelangelo’s david and the unfinished saint matthew, both from the accademia in florence in an easy 3d browser that can show you sides of the statues you wouldn’t otherwise see.
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sensory room
sensory therapy is a field that has only existed since the 1960s – an attempt to provide calming therapy to people suffering from many kinds of anxiety, related to learning disabilities, hyperactivity, depression, autism, dementia, sleep disorders – you name it. it seeks to provide balanced stimulus of the senses to ground the mind. recently, […]
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