Thursday, August 7, 2014

That Happy Woman

Our Bizarre Infatuation With That 'Happy Woman', Veritasium Shows You Five Cool Physics Phenomena, littleBits Now Lets You Build A DIY Smart Home, The Weirdest Micronations That Have Ever Existed, Fellow Commuters Push A Train Off A Trapped Man, Quaaludes, Gemstone Mining And Musical Redemption
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
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Our Bizarre Infatuation With That 'Happy Woman'
biographile.com
Leonardo da Vinci's model has stirred more than adulation. A vandal threw acid at the lower part of the painting. A young Bolivian flung a rock, chipping the left elbow. A Russian woman distraught over being denied French citizenship hurled a souvenir mug.
SCIENCE IS WEIRD, IN A GOOD WAY
Veritasium Shows You Five Cool Physics Phenomena
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You can try most of these out right now, but we're not responsible for anything you break.
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littleBits Now Lets You Build A DIY Smart Home
littlebits.cc
Holy crap this is cool. With littleBits, hacking hardware has never been so easy. If you can put two magnets next to each other, you can build your own Internet-connected creation.
HAIL CELESTIA!
The Weirdest Micronations That Have Ever Existed
io9.com
Living in a regular country, with a normal government, can get annoying sometimes. Taxes, laws, political disputes... it's all kind of a bummer. So why not go live in a tiny country of your own?
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS
Fellow Commuters Push A Train Off A Trapped Man
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After a man slipped and became wedged in between the gap of the platform and the train in Perth, Australia — dozens of passengers managed to tilt the train car far enough to set him free.
WE'RE A ZAMBIAN BAND
Quaaludes, Gemstone Mining And Musical Redemption
theappendix.net
Zamrock was the energetic sound of a nation that had just thrown off the British colonial yoke. With its fuzzed-out guitars, propulsive beats and cosmopolitan outlook, Zamrock provided the soundtrack to this hoped-for future.
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TRAPPED
Image: An aerial view shows houses cut-off by monsoon floods in Kendrapara district of eastern Orissa state, India.The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill thousands and submerge hundreds of villages.
An aerial view shows houses cut-off by monsoon floods in Kendrapara district of eastern Orissa state, India.The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill thousands and submerge hundreds of villages. Credit: AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout
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