Gears and Chains – Spin It
via How-To Geek by Asian Angel
In this game you are faced with the challenge of getting all the gears moving on each level, but not everything is as simple as it first appears to be. Patience and skill will be required to become a true Gear Master or Gear Mistress, so get ready to spin things up!
As ever you can go to Asian Angel’s walk-through here or take a chance and go straight to the game here.
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Where did the modern Olympic Games get their start? Meet Penny Brookes, a town magistrate in a backwater near Wales... more
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Famous “star cradle” might have been destroyed long before we ever discovered it
via Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker
This is one of the most famous astronomy photos in the world. Called The Pillars of Creation it was taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995 and shows massive columns of hydrogen gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from Earth. Part of why these are a big deal is that columns of dust and gas like this are places where stars form.
But here’s a cool and/or disappointing detail I hadn’t known about until today. Back in 2007, researchers took more images of this region of space using the Spitzer Space Telescope. These shots suggest that the Pillars of Creation might actually be long gone – destroyed thousands of years ago by a nearby supernova.
A striking image from Spitzer shows the intact dust towers next to a giant cloud of hot dust thought to have been scorched by the blast of a star that exploded, or went supernova. Astronomers speculate that the supernova’s shock wave could have already reached the dusty towers, causing them to topple about 6,000 years ago. However, because light from this region takes 7,000 years to reach Earth, we won’t be able to capture photos of the destruction for another millenium or so.Space is crazy, y’all.
Read the rest at The Daily Galaxy
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8 habits of highly effective fraudsters
via Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker
Scientists aren’t always right. In fact, individual research papers turn out to be wrong pretty often and scientists are the first people to tell you that they don’t know everything there is to know. They’re just working on it with more rigour than most of us.
But scientists are also people. And sometimes, they lie. At Ars Technica, John Timmer looks at some of the most famous cases of scientific fraud and comes away with eight key lessons that show us how science’s biggest scam artists got away with faking their data – sometimes for years.
Read the complete list at Ars Technica
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
It’s true: Talented people can be unpleasant or immoral. But do they behave worse than the untalented? Not always. Consider Haydn, neither tormented nor cruel... more
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A High Holy Whodunit
by Ronen Bergman via New York Times
One day this spring, on the condition that I not reveal any details of its location nor the stringent security measures in place to protect its contents, I entered a hidden vault at the Israel Museum and gazed upon the Aleppo Codex – the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible. The story of how it arrived here, in Jerusalem, is a tale of ancient fears and modern prejudices, one that touches on one of the rawest nerves in Israeli society: the clash of cultures between Jews from Arab countries and the European Jews, or Ashkenazim, who controlled the country during its formative years. And the story of how some 200 pages of the codex went missing – and to this day remain the object of searches carried out around the globe by biblical scholars, private investigators, shadowy businessmen and the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency – is one of the great mysteries in Jewish history.
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Upward Mobility: 1908
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1908
“Mount Adams Incline”
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
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The human rights movement has become awash in moral certainty and platitudes. Will a new generation of purists take heed of the old guard?... more
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Rock Roll plays The Twitch
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz
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The World’s Most Expensive Male Prostitute
Richard Wall in Folio Weekly via 3quarksdaily by Zujaja Tauqeer
Denny Fouts (1914-1948) was handsome, charming, witty, entertaining and moody. He didn’t have money himself, but lived luxuriously off the wealth and infatuation of others. He played a starring role in the pre-war aristocratic bohemian scene in Europe, where the fun was extravagant and being gay was just fine. Denny amazed and inspired such literary greats as Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, Somerset Maugham and Gavin Lambert, and his personality sparks the fiction, memoirs, diaries and letters of the most noted authors and artists of his day.
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