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Arts & Letters Daily (27 Nov 2009) - yesterday
Franklin D. Roosevelt, after falling victim to polio, was in the business of concealing his diseases...
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Arts & Letters Daily (26 Nov 2009) - 2 days ago
With more grandmasters than China and many more per capita than Russia, let alone the rest of the...
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Arts & Letters Daily (25 Nov 2009) - 3 days ago
Reality TV has not only helped to debase the networks, it has even trashed the time-honored art of...
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Arts & Letters Daily (24 Nov 2009) - 4 days ago
The stereotype of the sports-playing, emotionally illiterate, sex-obsessed boy keeps being...
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Arts & Letters Daily (23 Nov 2009) - 5 days ago
"Andy Warhol is everywhere. He's in Europe. He's in Asia. He's quoted in papers every day. He has...
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PUMA’s Limited Edition Kehinde Wiley Soccer Boot
Kehinde Wiley and Puma have collaborated on a limited edition performance soccer boot to be...
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The World’s Largest Multi-Touch Wall
The ring°wall is the largest multi-touch, multi-user display wall in the world.
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The Physical Internet
Wired has published a fascinating series of photos which highlight the very physical backbone of...
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Foursquare Gives Active Users Tiered Superpower Access
Foursquare has created levels of tiered access for its users, giving active users more control...
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Fire Design’s Colorful Fire Extinguishers
Fire Design's line of fire extinguishers make the safety device more attractive and accessible.
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(Pic) Martin Honert’s Giants
Art spotted by PSFK at the Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis.
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Camper Hosts Public Event to Select Next European Store Design
Camper shoes decided to invite the public in to help review the pitches of five different design...
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The 15 Best Prison Movies - 3 hours ago
A setting such as a prison, jail, work farm, or what have you is fertile fodder for drama, character...
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Fisticup: Coffee Mug with Brass Knuckle Handle - 6 hours ago
Fisticup – $14.95 For many of us, mornings are rough. If so, fight back with a strong cup of...
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Backlash Against Helicopter Parents - 7 hours ago
Like the proverb says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and parenting is no excuse....
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Rise of the Japanese "Herbivores" - 7 hours ago
There’s a peculiar trend afoot that bucks the macho man culture in Japan: young men who are...
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Why Hammerhead Sharks Have Hammer Heads - 7 hours ago
Why do hammerhead sharks have, well, hammer-shaped heads? The mystery may now be solved: it’s...
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Flying with Cranky Kids: What Would You Do? - 7 hours ago
Last month, Pamela Root and her son Adam got kicked off a Southwest flight when the 2-year-old...
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Santas Demand Flu Shots - 9 hours ago
The Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas is asking that costumed Santas be put on the priority...
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#26645 - Special Holiday Feature + Giveaway!!! Scott... - 9 hours ago
Special Holiday Feature + Giveaway!!! Scott Hansen from ISO50 gives us a close up...
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#26644 - New spacetastic music video for the Bravery's... - 9 hours ago
New spacetastic music video for the Bravery's Slow Poison. (Want more? See NOTCOT...
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#26643 - Beautiful hand painted El Capitane track bike - 9 hours ago
Beautiful hand painted El Capitane track bike (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and...
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#26642 - Discover the work of Antony Gormley, artist who... - 10 hours ago
Discover the work of Antony Gormley, artist who performs for over 25 years of...
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#26641 - This outstanding music visualization by Peter... - 10 hours ago
This outstanding music visualization by Peter Menich emits millions of particles to...
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#26640 - Absolutely astounding Crewdson /... - 11 hours ago
Absolutely astounding Crewdson / Liebowitz-esque photography of The Washington...
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#26639 - Gino Joukar’s Toy Art Gallery (TAG) is a... - 12 hours ago
Gino Joukar’s Toy Art Gallery (TAG) is a treasure trove of vinyl, kaiju and...
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Character Designs by Deniz Eyuboglu - yesterday
Deniz Eyuboglu is a graphic designer from the Turkish city of Istanbul, which is possibly Europe’s...
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Laufen - Swissness in Bathroom Culture - yesterday
Since the middle of the 16th century, the Swiss have produced meticulously tourbillion timepieces of...
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The Importancy of Unimportant - yesterday
'The Importancy of Unimportant' is a group exhibition featuring DELTA, Honet, Poch and others at...
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SprayCandy in CMYK - yesterday
Artist Royalsteez collaborated with candyshop Papabubble to create these SprayCans in CMYK....
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Amazing Lego Matrix Video - yesterday
" Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, “Trinity Help" is a frame-accurate stop-frame...
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Solar Powered International Design Center By LIN - yesterday
Located in Saint-Eienne, France, the International Design Centery by LIN is another astounding...
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You Still Need The Vision! - 2 days ago
You Still Need The Vision You may be able to buy top of the range camera equipment at reasonable...
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The parachute physics of hungry whales - 7 hours ago
How did whales get so big eating such tiny creatures? And why aren't they bigger? Carl Zimmer...
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How geeks measure things - 9 hours ago
1 Warhol equals 15 minutes of fame, So if you've been famous for three years, that's just over 105...
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Back to the land - 11 hours ago
Maira Kalman wonders about the patterns of food consumption in the United States, whether it is...
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The Matrix in Lego - 13 hours ago
This is amazing: a stop-motion recreation of the Neo-dodges-bullets-on-the-roof scene from The...
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Updates on previous entries for Nov 25, 2009* - yesterday
Dogfighting vs. football in moral calculus orig. from Oct 12, 2009 Media packaging mashups orig....
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Food in movies - 2 days ago
Another great video essay from Matt Zoller Seitz: Feast, a tribute to images of food on film...
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Crazy Amazon deals for Black Friday - 2 days ago
In an attempt to make a run at WalMart's $400 billion in annual sales, Amazon is offering a ton of...
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How to Think About Science - 44 minutes ago
"Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and...
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Post Thanksgiving (Just Another Friday) Video Filter - 2 hours ago
Thanksgiving may be over, but you can still join The Beverly Hillbillies for Turkey Day (1963) and...
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Everyone's On LSD! - 2 hours ago
Autistics on LSD Elephants on LSD British Troops on LSD Spiders on LSD Cats on LSD Argentinians on...
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Art from the heart (and nose, ear, etc.) - 2 hours ago
CT Scan art - Radiologist Kai-hung Fung takes scans of our innards and makes them outwardly...
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"Donald Sterling Continues To Get Away With Being The Most Evil Man In Sports" - 2 hours ago
The Donald Sterling Rule "Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lives by his own rules. And the...
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Moscow Cats Theater - 3 hours ago
I was always taught that cats aren't possible to train; they do whatever they want. But everybody in...
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Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence - 5 hours ago
As a child, actor Patrick Stewart regularly saw his father hit his mother. Here he describes how the...
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Give Thanks for This Harvest - 3 days ago
Nobody but we farmers celebrates a great crop like this one. The rest of America should celebrate,...
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Investing in India: Art of the Impossible? - 4 days ago
Here’s how India will become the place for future investment and future pharmacological...
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Wherefore Art Thou, Green Obama - 1 week ago
Those hoping for a green jolt to the economy must come to grips with three serious misconceptions.
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The Death of the Cool - 1 week ago
Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or...
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Jamaica vs. Singapore - 1 week ago
In 1965 the two nations were equal in wealth. Four decades later, their standing was dramatically...
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Limited Utility - 1 week ago
What happens when populist politicians try to micromanage public utilities?
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The Critical U.S-India Relationship - 1 week ago
At the upcoming state visit, the challenge for President Obama is to make sure that the United...
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Personalized jewelry marks a specific moment or place - 7 hours ago
We've seen one-of-a-kind jewelry created to replicate a wearer's scar, as well as bracelets...
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Online hub helps people pack & sell their know-how - 18 hours ago
Since free information is abundant, finding a way to sell knowledge or monetize content can be a...
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Real packages for virtual friends, no address required - yesterday
Internet users can already send each other real-world gifts and letters without leaving the comfort...
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Beer-loving crowd aims to buy Pabst Brewing Co. for $300 mln - yesterday
BuyABeerCompany.com presents the most ambitious crowdsourcing effort yet: USD 300,000,000 for the...
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Water bottle's plunger-style filter purifies instantly - 2 days ago
The list of reasons to avoid bottled water seems to grow longer every day. While much of the...
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Business model book follows its own advice - 2 days ago
Business models are at the core of what we write about every day here at Springwise, so we were...
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Colour-changing sleep suit signals baby's fever - 3 days ago
For parents of young children, pediatric fevers are often the first harbinger of the next childhood...
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THIS QUARTER'S QUARTERS: A HIGHER SPLASH - yesterday
Continuing our series on inspiring places to stay, Rebecca Willis dives into hotels with rooftop...
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AN ENGLISH THANKSGIVING - yesterday
July 4th is an American celebration that foreigners have little trouble getting their heads around....
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REPASTS: CANVASBACK DUCK - 2 days ago
Though canvasback ducks have fallen from favour since Edith Wharton's time, they remain delicious,...
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ON SECOND THOUGHT ... - 2 days ago
Earlier this month I wrote a piece about Edward Albee, a revolutionary American playwright. It got...
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THE LASTING POWER OF PEE-WEE HERMAN - 2 days ago
As a kid, brushing my teeth seemed infinitely more exciting when I employedPee-wee Herman's...
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DRIVING WITH A DOPPELKUPPLUNGSGETRIEBE - 3 days ago
Automatics are now so good, gearboxes may soon be history. Paul Markillie is a convert ...From...
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THE CV: DANIEL DAY-LEWIS - 4 days ago
He doesn’t take many roles but they tend to be memorable, from an Edwardian prig to a murderous...
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Lost List - 12 hours ago
[LIFE'S BIG LISTS] “Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own...
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Do our social systems create cookie-cutter people? - yesterday
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many...
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Move over, fridge magnets... - 2 days ago
[CHALLENGE: POET PUNDIT] :: @golriz Some clever folks have taken magnetic poetry to the next next...
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Does technology make us more human--or less? - 2 days ago
We admit it. Some of the lines from this video are a bit hokey: “People aren’t simply...
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How do you counteract boredom? - 3 days ago
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How exactly does gay marriage hinder life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? - 3 days ago
[SP EXCLUSIVE] :: seeing red by Joseph Robertson I've been thinking a lot lately about Maine, which...
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Is it programmed in our DNA to "believe"? - 4 days ago
[SP Exclusive] Chew on that and these other tasty questions raised by recent headlines. This week:...
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Say Hello To Smallville's Veteran Superheroes - 5 hours ago
The first official pics of the Justice Society from Smallville have been released, and while the...
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5 Lessons We Hope RTD's Learned From His Past Doctor Who Epics - 6 hours ago
If history is anything to go by, Russell T. Davies will try to top all his previous gonzo...
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Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999 - 8 hours ago
Battlestar Galactica, The Prisoner, Knight Rider, V — all these classic (and not so classic)...
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Captain Kirk And Batman Team Up In Ancient Greece - 10 hours ago
It's the pilot that brought William Shatner and Adam West together in the early 1960s for some manly...
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Six Things I'm Thankful For In Science Fiction - yesterday
Science-fiction fans sometimes focus too much on the negative, in a world where remakes run rampant...
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Awesome 1980s Retro Satanism in "House of the Devil" - yesterday
A weird indie horror gem crept into theaters last week while you weren't looking. Called House of...
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How To Make Yourself Apocalypse-Ready - yesterday
We often talk about fictional apocalypses here at io9, but what if the collapse of civilization...
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MVRDV - Out Of The Box Architecture - 17 hours ago
The story With their projects all over the world, architect agency MVRDV shows how they live up...
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Earth Keepers Documentary - 2 days ago
The story This feature documentary by Sylvie Van Brabant introduces Mikael Rioux, a young...
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Why You Should Plan Your Day The Night Before - 5 days ago
The story Jack Canfield, the founder and co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series...
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The Volvo IT Rants and The Importance of a Corporate Internet Policy - 2 hours ago
Volvo IT has a policy against using its network to post racist and other defamatory information...
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Playgrub: Music Playlists for the Playdar Content Resolver - 4 hours ago
Developer Toby Padilla was one of the first to defend music content resolver Playdar when it was...
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Foodspotting: Foursquare meets Food Porn - 6 hours ago
After eating the best meal of your life, it's hard to forget the experience. It's not unusual for...
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Twitter Japan Will Allow Users to Charge for Access to Their Tweets - 10 hours ago
Twitter's Japanese partner, Digital Garage, will soon introduce a micropayment system that will give...
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New Website Publicizes iPhone App Rejections - 13 hours ago
A new website aims to publicize the details surrounding the much-maligned iPhone application review...
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Dell Releases Customized Version of Chrome OS - 14 hours ago
Dell has just released a customized version of Chromium OS, the open source code behind Google's new...
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More Trouble for File Sharing: Virgin to Monitor in UK - yesterday
Virgin Media, one of the UK's leading providers of television / broadband / mobile / phone services,...
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Staple x Kangol 2009 Holiday Headwear - 6 hours ago
Following up on its Summer Kangol Pigeon Sunshade Cap project, Staple linked up with Kangol yet...
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Keith Haring for PROPER ATTIRE Condoms - 9 hours ago
Although a bit difficult to comprehend for the average consumer, this new collaboration between the...
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YOPPI x adidas Originals Five-Two 3 Samba & T-Shirt - 9 hours ago
A continuation of adidas Originals’ Five-Two 3 campaign, the brand now offers a peek into a...
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NESM x HECTIC Collection - 9 hours ago
Tokyo-based streetwear label Hectic team up with celebrated graffiti artist NESM on a new capsule...
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OriginalFake Christmas Pack - 11 hours ago
As Christmas nears, OriginalFake have something special up their sleeves with a new pack for the...
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Garbstore x Mighty Healthy T-Shirts - 11 hours ago
Stepping away from the norm of streetwear x streetwear collaborations, Mighty Healthy link up with...
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AFFA Quilted Leather Down Jacket - 11 hours ago
Initially spotted last week, AFFA (Anarchy Forever Forever Anarchy) release two colorways in its...
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