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It’s cute, it has no ears and its 800m tall, laser-eyed progeny will shortly be decimating Tokyo unless someone reawakens Godzilla.

But seriously:

Radiation’s Unknowns Weigh on Japan (New York Times)

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A patch of missing fur on the back of Vladimir Putin the rabbit in the shape of a…

…nothing. It’s all in your mind.

Pareidolia: what is it, and show me another, absolutely stunning example of it, this instant.

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Actually, it’s a duckrabbit. In 1899, the American psycholgist Joseph Jastrow drew the above cartoon to illustrate the point that we see with the mind as well as the eye.

Now, 111 years on, someone’s recreated it in 3D, using taxidermy. Obviously, it’s an abomination unto the Lord, but it does highlight Jastrow’s point rather elegantly.

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A rather excellent commercial from US coms giant Comcast, plugging their high-speed internet sevice. Apparently, they’re like Eircom, only with high-speed internet.