Cool medical models from Japan via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
When I travelled to Japan last summer on a family vacation, we stopped at one of my favourite places, a toy store called Kiddyland. I really liked the medical models for sale there. I asked Max Hodges about them, and he found a source for them and now sells them on his website, White Rabbit Express.4D Vision Medical Models
Weird but completely fascinating – and not terribly expensive (except for the carriage from the US.
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Women and wages. Fewer hours at an undemanding job for reduced pay: Welcome to the mommy track. Far from an unjust, patriarchal imposition, it’s where many women want to be...more
London Bridge: From Britain to Arizona, a Span of Anniversaries via Britannica Blog by Gregory McNamee
Travel the length of the Thames River, in southern England, and you will encounter more than 210 bridges, from Radcot Bridge in Oxfordshire, a medieval masterpiece of fitted stone spanning what is at that point a large stream, to the towering Queen Elizabeth II Bridge in Dartford, completed in 1991 and crossing a body of water now more than half a mile wide.
Travel a quarter of a turn of the planet, and there, in the austere Mojave Desert on the border of Arizona and California, you’ll find a bridge that began its working life 180 years ago in the heart of London – for which reason, fittingly, it bears the name London Bridge.
Read in full – with lots of links to other information
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Vodka – no color, no taste – made no sense to A.J. Liebling, a brown-spirits man. He had a point: It’s the chicken breast of libations...more
Rome Puzzle via the How-To Geek by Asian Angel
In this game you have a chance for greatness and the opportunity to visit Olympus as you work to build a new city in the bygone era of ancient Rome.
Play Rome Puzzle
Looks to me like yet another variation of Bejeweled (to which hubs is addicted).
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The politics of rescue. Michael Walzer has questions: Is humanitarianism a duty or a gift? A responsibility of states or individuals? Maimonides has answers...more
Despite Introspection, We Are Strangers to Ourselves via Big Think by Big Think Editors
There are many examples of people offering grossly incorrect analysis of common physical phenomena. Eye witnesses to crimes have notoriously fallible memories about who or what they saw; it is common for two people who experienced the same event to have different ... Read More
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The emotional life of bees. The gentle curl of their mouths, the hesitant flicks of their antennae: Are bees sentient creatures?...more
5 More Free Action-Packed Shooter Games [Windows] via MakeUseOf by Tim Brookes
Gung-ho shooters, both first-person and third-person have been the bread-and-butter of a lot of gamers' diets for well over a decade now. The genres have been the driving force behind many advancements in graphics, physics and online play over the years, and now it seems there are more frantic shooters on the shelves than any other genre.
The only problem with shelves in shops is that you'll have reach for your wallet if you want to play – and here at MUO, we’d like to save you some money. To supplement our great free FPS article, here are 5 more top-notch shooters that won't cost you a penny.
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The quest for truth requires a critical edge, sharpened by lies, hedges, and evasions. Truthfulness, says Julian Baggini, is largely a matter of deciding what to withhold...more
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