A very passable homage to Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android’ by the superbly named Old Dirty Brasstards.
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Vanessa Foran tweets:
Found this for the returning Menfolks. May not be able to play like the All Blacks
But they can at least eat like them (Catchup is like a soy sauce made from mushrooms btw JIC yedo a’sounds like red sauce’)
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‘Time Changes Everything’ – a paraphrased quote from the poem ‘Time Is’ by Henry Van Dyke (sometimes misattributed to Shakespeare) picked out in shadow on the facade of a former bookstore in Las Vegas by anonymous artist DAKU as part of last month’s Life Is Beautiful festival.
An image of five Saturnine moons above the ring plane captured in 2011, by the Cassini spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera. To wit:
Left to right are small moons Janus and Pandora respectively 179 and 81 kilometres across, shiny 504 kilometre diameter Enceladus, and Mimas, 396 kilometres across, seen just next to Rhea. Cut off by the right edge of the frame, Rhea is Saturn’s second largest moon at 1,528 kilometres across. So how many moons does Saturn have? Twenty new found outer satellites bring its total to 82 known moons, and since Jupiter’s moon total stands at 79, Saturn is the Solar System’s new moon king. The newly announced Saturnian satellites are all very small, 5 kilometres or so in diameter, and most are in retrograde orbits inclined to Saturn’s ringplane.
(Image: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, NASA )
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Fancy building your own socialist prefab panel block while learning about the history of prefabricated construction systems commonly used behind the Iron Curtain?
Look no further.
Plattenbau, Panelák, Wielka Płyta, Panelky, Panelház or Панельки: Prefabricated panel blocks go by different names around the former Eastern Bloc, but no matter where they were built, their goal was always the same: to provide homes for expanding city populations after World War II.
‘Panelki’ by Zupagrafika (€22 + P&P)
zefrank presents true facts about the sand bubbler crab, including that idiot David..
Previously: True Facts About Margaret
Then it would be 420km above us and look like this. Also, it would rise in the west and set in the east.
Also, it might rip itself (and us) apart. It really doesn’t bear thinking about.
Best just keep it where it is.
The tales of Odysseus related by way of cheeky Limericks by author Emily Wilson, who recently published a translation of Homer’s ’The Odyssey’.
And then there’s the bit where Odysseus’ men eat the cattle of Helios and are struck by a thunderbolt from Zeus.
But what of Athena and the cyclops Polyphemus?
Epic bantz.
But she’s no Moynes.
‘Cytokiesis Variations’: two recent sculptures by paper artist (he, himself is not made of paper, you understand) Rogan Brown.
The 1.2m long highly detailed representations in hand-cut and laser-cut white paper explore the biological process of cell division or mitosis. The artist tells Colossal:
At any given moment millions of cells in your body are dividing and multiplying in order to replenish and maintain your skin, hair, intestine and bodily organs, etc. Cytokinesis is the final and most dramatic stage of mitosis when the cell wall ruptures and splits in two to form identical daughter cells. I have tried to freeze the ultimate moment of transformation and becoming.
The works are currently on exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, if you’re passing.
Behold: the Andromeda galaxy, NGC 224 aka Messier 31 – our closest galactic neighbour, before and after image ‘cleanup’. To wit:
The picture is a stack of 223 images, each a 300 second exposure, taken from a garden observatory in Portugal over the past year. Obvious image deficiencies include bright parallel airplane trails, long and continuous satellite trails, short cosmic ray streaks, and bad pixels. These imperfections were actually not removed with Photoshop specifically, but rather greatly reduced with a series of computer software packages that included Astro Pixel Processor, DeepSkyStacker, and PixInsight. All of this work was done not to deceive you with a digital fantasy that has little to do with the real likeness of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), but to minimise Earthly artefacts that have nothing to do with the distant galaxy and so better recreate what M31 really does look like.
(Image: Kees Scherer)