A venomous cone snail engulfs its prey before spearing it with a harpoon-like barb and paralysing it, footage shows.
There is a lot of information about Cone snails here – not the most pleasant of creatures!!
Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Joseph Epstein is an old-fashioned gossip hound. When done right, he says, the exchange of titillating stories can rise to the level of art... more
How Computers Work via Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza
See the rest of the images from the book here
Text and images by Ladybird Books. Remix by Rob. Wormholed from the archives of BBG. Original scans from davidguy.brinkster.net
Fascinating stuff. I remember it well!
World’s Biggest Websites at Launch, 1990s via Retronaut by Chris
Now, which picture shall I use for the blog and which shall I let you look at for yourself?
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Thank you to Mashable
This capsule was curated by Thomas Jones
And you can find Amazon.com, thefacebook, Google, MySpace, The New York Times, Yahoo and YouTube here
Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Economics might act like a science, but it isn't one, says Robert Trivers. Its key ideas are naive, and it'd take more than a nudge to fix that... more
Construction of Tower Bridge, 1886-1894 via Retronaut by Chris
These photographs have been unveiled after a stash of hundred-year-old photos were found in a skip. The pictures were retrieved by a caretaker who was looking after a building being turned into flats in 2006 and have spent the last five years in a carrier bag underneath his bed.
Daily Telegraph
Images by David Willoughby / Barcroft Media
Thank you to the Daily Telegraph
See the rest of the images here
The Luxury of Rail Travel in the Forties (Thanks to Boing Boing for finding this one)
There’s another two pictures here.
Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
The study of human illness depends on bloated rodents. Biomedical innovation has stalled, but behold the awesome power of the buck-toothed mole... more more more
Vive le tweet! A Map of Twitter’s Languages via Big Think by Frank Jacobs
What a joy these maps are to behold. It’s as if someone took one of those composite satellite maps – you know, impossibly showing the whole world at night, the darkness broken by hubs and strings of artificial light – and gave it the power of speech. For the riot of colours on these maps … Read More
Naughty Hazel. You are not supposed to read these things – only just enough to know that it might interest your reader(s).
neither sinner nor saint via 3quarksdaily by Morgan Meis
On a moonlit January night in 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose, a leader of India’s independence movement as influential in his time as Gandhi and nearly as mythologized in his homeland today – embarked on a perilous, clandestine journey. Frail from a hunger strike begun during his eleventh stint in British prisons, Bose was sent home to recuperate – to get just well enough, that is, to be arrested once again. Seeking to take advantage of Britain’s involvement in World War II, he knew he could not languish any longer in prison. So he worked out a bold escape. Disguised as a North Indian Muslim, he left his family’s home on Calcutta’s Elgin Road and sneaked out of the city in the direction of Delhi, where he caught a train to Peshawar – journeying on, under the name Orlando Mazzotta, to Samarkand, Moscow, and Berlin. It was April 1941, and Bose arrived in Nazi Germany, ready to launch a revolution.
more from Sudip Bose at Bookforum here.
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