Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of such films as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro , and countless other masterpieces, has announced his retirement from feature films. Read more…
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Legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki announces his retirement
These coy hippos come from a 19th century illustration in The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. They’re now part of a new book, published by New York’s American Museum of Natural History, that combines some of the best illustrations and artworks from the museum’s rare book collection .
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The best of the American Museum of Natural History’s rare book collection
Alexandrite is a gemstone coming into popularity because it is one color by day and another color by night. We’ll tell you how it manages this color transformation. Read more…
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How does a gemstone change color from red to green?
When left to its own devices, liquids form into spherical drops. But add a little electricity, and you get “electrospraying” and “electrospinning, ” and you can watch electricity play Rumpelstiltskin. Read more…
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How to use electricity to spin liquid into nanostring
What started as an investigation into developmental mouse biology has become a lot more than that. Biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi discovered a way to turn mouse skin cells into sperm and egg cells — and actually used these modified cells to create a living baby mouse. The question is, can it work in humans? Read more…
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New research suggests women can make sperm, and men can make eggs
This Must Be the Only Fantasy is a Dungeons & Dragons style collaboration between fashion line Rodarte and photographer Todd Cole. The short movie is packed with amazing unicorns, badass ear cuffs, Elijah Wood drop ins, and self important pauses. But it does 100% feel like the 80s. Read more…
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Get your 1980s retro Dungeons & Dragons fix with this crazy short film
Randall Munroe has finally finished Time , his 3, 000+ frame slow-motion animation that began life as wordless, enigmatic single-panel XKCD installment .
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Randall Munroe finishes "Time," the 3,099-panel XKCD serial
I love reading on my Kindle, but the screen is just too small and blurry to be useful for PDF files. While it’s lacking in customizability, PDF4Kindle solves this problem pretty well by converting PDF files into Amazon’s native .mobi format, all while being completely web-based. Read more…
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PDF4Kindle Converts PDF Files to Native Kindle Books
It’s hard to let go of some memories, even if your head has been chopped off. Well, at least if you’re a flatworm. When these tiny critters are decapitated, their heads and brain eventually grow back. But more remarkable than that, so too do their previous memories. Read more…
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Decapitated worms regrow their heads with old memories intact
A somewhat tongue-in-cheek article in The Guardian is proposing some rather interesting predictions for the future of humanity — changes to human form and function that would even make some of the X-Men jealous. Read more…