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Astronaut and educator Don Pettit recorded this time-lapse video from the International Space Station. It shows day turning into night as the Earth rotates beneath him.
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Tony Orrico is both a visual and a performance artist, and often combines the two approaches by creating works in front of audiences. Here, he created an elaborate geometric pattern in eight circles using the movements of his body as measuring tools. The result took precisely 1,000 body movements to complete.
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Students at the Columbus College of Art & Design (Columbus, Ohio) made an interactive mural that lets you put yourself into Super Mario Bros. Twelve students spent eight days making it. The mural measures sixteen feet tall and thirty-eight feet wide. You can view several full-size pictures at the link.
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When I first started to get interested in public health several years ago, I thought of it mostly as dealing with things like vaccines and handwashing. From one of my friends who enrolled in a Master of Public Health program, I learned that it actually covers a whole range of issues that affect the population’s health and quality of life - things like workplace and highway safety and smoking cessation, in addition to control of infectious diseases.
The word “population” is key to understanding public health. Healthcare providers focus on individual patients; public health workers focus on entire populations. Of course, many healthcare providers participate in public health work, and when they do things like administer vaccinations they’re helping promote the health of the population as well as of the individual patient.
To get a sense of public health’s scope and impact, it’s helpful to check out the Centers for [...]
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Are you tired of your chickens pooping all over your nice carpets and grandmother’s table cozies? Now there’s a solution to your problem (well, one of them): chicken diapers. Ingrid Dimock of Australia invented and sells them for people who keep their chickens indoors:
The nappies she sells are bought by families who encourage their birds inside to interact or for people in apartments or townhouses who keep birds but have limited space.
“Chickens have become incredibly interactive with people,” Ms Dimock said.
“When you come home they are looking for you and run up to you. They make really good pets and are really social creatures.”
The leads were developed because Ms Dimock said people wanted to take their birds with them when they left the house.
“People were telling us that they wanted to take their chickens to the park to have a scratch around while they watched their kids playing [...]
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Long weekend reading: Over at e360, Climate Central’s Michael Lemonick sums up the latest thinking on the big question of whether clouds will alleviate or accelerate global warming.
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I know some people who would rather rebuild something ten time than read the directions! Of course, putting something like a deck chair together is infinitely easier when the directions are written by someone who is fluent in your language. This video is the latest from SheepFilms. -via b3ta
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BrickExpo 2010 will be held in Cincinnati the weekend of September 11-12. One of the displays will be a recreation of the 2009 plane crash in New York in which an airliner safely landed in the middle of the Hudson River, which became known as “the Miracle on the Hudson” as all passengers and crew were rescued from the water. Ken Osbon of Goshen Township, Ohio created the Lego version of the incident. Osbon, one of the event’s organizers, said other Lego displays will depict a farm, a city with a train running through it, a pirate tableau, and even one recreating a scene from the TV show The Deadliest Catch. Link -via Fark
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(Note: due to blockages in the intertubes, this week’s installment is late. Apologies to all whose week ground to a halt while anxiously waiting…)
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup
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"What Would a Zombie Do?" Spinner Folder – $4.95
Poor zombies – being the undead is hard work and rotting brains don’t exactly make quick decisions. But take heart, this What Would a Zombie Do? Spinner Folder (yes, with a disembodied zombie arm spinner) over at the NeatoShop surely will make their lives (deaths?) a lot easier!
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