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MONA LISA in 80 milliseconds
In a presentation made at Nvidia’s NVISION show, Adam and Jamie, hosts of the known mythbusters show compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU blasted a mona lisa painting in...
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Machines Made to Know You, by Touch, Voice, Even by Heart
How does a machine verify the identity of a human being? Irises, heartbeats, fingertips and voices, for starters. Authentication has been a tough nut to crack since the early days of the Web. Now...
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Copenhagen Suborbitals: DIY Space Exploration
Copenhagen Suborbitals is a suborbital space endeavor, based entirely on private donators, sponsors and part time specialists According to them: “Our mission is to launch human beings into space on...
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This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
To the best of our knowledge, the mechanical gear—evenly-sized teeth cut into two different rotating surfaces to lock them together as they turn—was invented sometime around 300 B.C.E. by Greek...
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Virtual Violence, Immersion, and Harun Farocki
War, seen by the lay viewer through the lens of television news, seems distant; the people and the lands in the images are Other — other people, other cultures, other lands, other tragedies. War is...
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Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now comes a...
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The Turing Normalizing Machine: An experiment in machine learning &...
In the 1930s British Mathematician Alan Turing studied normal numbers. During World War 2 he cracked the Nazi Enigma code, and then laid the foundations for computing and artificial intelligence. In...
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Small animals see in slow motion, study finds
Time doesn’t fly if you’re a fly, a new study suggests. In fact, flies excel at dodging our slaps and swats because they perceive the passage of time more slowly than we do. Animals with smaller...
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Franz Reichelt jumps off the Eiffel Tower 1912
Franz Reichelt wearing the parachute that he designed and invented before ascending the Eiffel Tower. Reichelt standing on platform high up on the tower preparing to jump he hovers on the brink for...
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Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (PCVS-Polity Conversations...
Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of...
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T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Project: An online exhibit/performance project...
“The Waste Land”, an exhibit/performance project, is a collaboration between artist Daniel Domig and actor Christopher Domig. T.S. Eliot’s work has been an inspiration for both artists over the years...
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Hunks: How Ripped Became an Ideal. A historic look at images of masculinity
Not all purveyors of art think the male form gets enough attention. Exhibitions like Sascha Schneider’s show at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art have highlighted the importance of the...
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Delivery For Mr. Assange, a 32-hour live mail art
«Delivery for Mr. Assange» is a 32-hour live mail art piece performed on 16 and 17 January 2013. On 16 January 2013 !Mediengruppe Bitnik posted a parcel addressed to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian...
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The psychology of spiritualism: science and seances
The idea of summoning the spirits took thrilling hold of the Victorian imagination – and has its adherents now. But the psychology behind spiritualism is more intriguing. As the evenings get darker...
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A Philosophy of Tickling
Aristotle famously defined man as the rational animal (zoon echon logon), and as the political animal (zoon politikon). But there are also passages in his work that indicate another less remarked...
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The origins of the moonwalk
ORIGINS OF THE MOONWALK Dancers (in alphabetical order): Fred Astaire, Bill Bailey, Buck and Bubbles, Cab Calloway, Clark Brothers, Sammy Davis Jr., Daniel L. Haynes, Rubberneck Holmes, Patterson and...
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Look over a watchmakers’ shoulders or through their eyes
German based watchmakers NOMOS Glashütte are known for their high caliber of watchmaking and this video proves it. Aptly titled Look over the watchmakers’ shoulder we get an intimate look at the...
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Li Hongbo
Classical sculptures that defy logic by paper master Li Hongbo. Extended Version Filed under: Performativity, Sculpt/Install Tagged: Li Hongbo, paper
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How Your Great-Grandchildren Could Talk to You Decades after Your Death
Humans have sought immortality since at least the 22nd century B.C., if the ancient story “Epic of Gilgamesh” is any indication. And if we’re looking for biological immortality, we might have to keep...
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Dogs Smell Time
Can you smell time? Your dog can. On a very basic level, so can you: When you crack the lid on that old quart of milk, tentatively sniff and—peeyouu!—promptly dump that foul stuff down the sink, you...
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