by | Jun 7, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Financial Times Dawn of a robot revolution as army of machines escape the factory By Chris Bryant in Frankfurt Cleaning the Sydney Harbour Bridge used to be a dangerous, dirty and laborious job. As soon as a team of workers, operating a sandblaster, reached...
by | Jun 6, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from Yahoo! News Hidden Beached Whale Revealed in 17th-Century Dutch Painting By by Megan Gannon, News Editor View of Scheveningen Sands, before and after conservators uncovered a beached whale in the painting. (Fitzwilliam … When art conservators in the United...
by | Jun 5, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Atlantic Science Confirms: Yup, This Book Really Is Bound in Human Skin ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL Surely, you’ve seen our recent work on anthropodermic bibliopegy, the early modern practice of binding books in human skin? No? Well, a quick refresher: some...
by | Jun 3, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from The LA Times Marilyn Beck, longtime syndicated Hollywood columnist, dies at 85 (Ron Galella, WireImage) STEVE CHAWKINS Marilyn Beck, a syndicated Hollywood columnist who for decades dished out delectable dollops on celebrities hooking up, splitting up and...
by | Jun 2, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from International Business Times Korea’s Dinosaur Robot Outruns Usain Bolt By Mary-Ann Russon Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have built a fast-running biped robot that can reach a top speed of 46 km/hour (28.6mph)...
by | Jun 1, 2014 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Projects
from DEADLINE Hollywood Fox 2000, Temple Hill To Bring EDM Mogul Pasquale Rotella’s Life To Screen, Buying James Frey-Penned Memoir By MIKE FLEMING JR EXCLUSIVE: Based on a book proposal, Fox 2000 has made a preemptive acquisition of Insomniac: The Life And Times of...
