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1. Interesting – A Year of Global Shipping Routes Mapped by GPS (Wired).
2. Interesting – Why do high-end prostitutes make so much money? (bakadesuyo)
3. Interesting – 15 Cute Animals That Will Cause You Horrible Harm (brainz).
4. Interesting – The economics of child soldiering (Chris Blattman).
5. Interesting – The Zero Rupee note (World Bank).
6. Science – Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion (arXiv).
7. Science – Can planets reproduce by budding? (weird things)
8. Art – The Most Famous Unfinished Works of Art (Bezbridge).
9. History – The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army (TYWKIWDBI).
10. History – Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume (stone).

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Every once in a while an instrument comes along that changes the way people listen to music. The electric guitar, pioneered in the 1930s, paved the way for rock and roll. The synthesizer made the piano portable and interesting, at least to the 80s. Other musical innovations have been less success. The following are 10 musical instruments that made the world collectively shrug and say, “Meh”. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Photography – Stunning images from the book A Child is Born (Guardian.co.uk).
2. History – The missing piece of an ancient sculpture of the Buddhist deity Hevajra has been recovered (Phnom Penh Post).
3. History – Women of the Venetian Renaissance (mental_floss).
4. History – Remains of worlds oldest human brain found in Armenia (Little About).
5. History – Turkish lighthouse that dates back to 60 AD to be saved (Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review).
6. Art – How China’s underground art scene is becoming more mainstream (WSJ).
7. Science – Wired Science News for Your Neurons How Earth’s Hum Could Help Us Map Mars (Wired).
8. Interesting – The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize winners (Improbable Research).
9. Interesting – In praise of the sci-fi corridor (Den of Geek).
10. Interesting – First accredited Islamic college planned for US (Guardian.co.uk).

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Peter Root’s Low Rise is made of stacks of staples that are assembled to look like a city. Fun fact:

Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.

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From France’s Sanch Procession to the Yoruba’s Egungun, practically every culture of the world has a type of masquerade ceremony where people were intricate masks for religious purposes. Some argue that Halloween is a type of masquerade.

Phyllis Galembo is a photographer based out of SUNY who has spent 20 years photographing masquerade ceremonies in Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and Nigeria. One of the most complete sets of her work that I’ve been able to find is her West African Masquerade series.

Enjoy them here.