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Today was the hottest day (so far) of my visit to Sydney (so far). It was already 30°C by 11am, and got warmer as the day went on, reaching 35°C by 3pm, reaching a peak of almost 37°C by 4 o’clock. I was struggling a bit by then, and decided to go back to my air-conditioned apartment for a rest. I got there just before the lovely rain came; no …

In the 1950s, two US kit companies came up with the idea of making Big Game hunting trophy kits. These usually comprised stuffed and mounted animal heads, on a simulated wooden plaque, that you could hang on a wall.Precision Plastics made four such kits, and Palmer Plastics made another six. Neither of these ranges appears to have lasted very long.Most Palmer boxes only give the address as Brooklyn, New York. …

Scientists have unveiled a remarkably complete fossil of a specialized reptile named Dinocephalosaurus that swam the oceans 240 million years ago during the Triassic Period. This bizarre creature measured over 16 feet long and boasted an extremely elongated neck containing 32 individual vertebrae – more than any other known species from the Triassic. This enabled […]

It’s one of the oddities of pop culture that Alan Ladd had his own comic book, dedicated to all his wacky adventures. The conceit was that, despite a life consisting mainly of shooting movies and playing golf, Ladd was constantly getting into scrapes. In the first instalment he’s one his way from studio to links […]

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For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. The post Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy appeared first on Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture.

Andrew RT Davies is Leader of the Welsh Conservatives and an MS for South Wales Central. This weekend, the Welsh Conservatives will be in Llandudno for our annual conference. We are in a unique position: we live, work in, and represent the only part of the UK where Labour is in government. It’s fair to say Labour’s record in Wales is lamentable. The Welsh public don’t get the public services …

From SR 9, old SR 67 leaves SR 32 and joins SR 232. This road was SR 67 from 1926. In 1933, SR 32 was extended beyond downtown Anderson on SR 67’s route to Muncie. The road carried both designations until 1938, when an SR 67 bypass of Anderson was completed along the south side of that town. I’ll share photos from that alignment in later installments of this trip …

'Tales from a Disappearing City' is a great podcast with Controlled Weirdness interviewing people about their untold subcultural stories from his SE16 batcave. The latest one is a SE London cracker featuring Uncle G, also known as Urban Intelligence. Godfrey arrived in London with his family as political refugees from Chile in the 1970s and grew up on the Morris Walk Estate in Woolwich. He has lots of great stories …

There are plenty of art installations set up around the world, but the majority of them have a “look but don’t touch” policy. After all, “art” is expected to be mostly visual and the risk of damaging a precious, one-of-a-kind masterpiece is just too high. There are, however, other art forms that require your other senses to truly have a complete experience, sometimes involving not just touch but even hearing …

Note: this is a post reflecting on one of the modules of my MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice. You can see all of the related posts in this category. They say not to judge a book by its cover, but it’s quite hard not to. We form opinions about whether something is “of interest” to us or not by how it is packaged. Big Tech knows this, hence we …

Morning folks - I hope you are well!Today's FB has a title that not only quotes an album by 4NonBlondes but also, I think, is at the root of what is currently wrong with photography.Oh I know, chuck your coffee at the screen, drop your phone down the toilet, etc etc . . I know.You see, to cut a long story short, megapixels, print size, formats, fps, USAF resolution charts, …

There were a couple of new beers from Galway Bay Brewery. I dropped into The Black Sheep one afternoon to see what the story was.Celestial Floods (or "Fioods", as the badge has it) is a double IPA of 7.9% ABV. Bullhouse of Belfast collaborated, and the hops are Galaxy, Riwaka and Mosaic. "Hazy" doesn't quite cover the proposition: it's downright beige in the glass, though smells attractive. I get pineapple, …

?si=aoRK422gthc62UZE If you attend the “Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise” exhibition at the Musée D’Orsay, in Paris, you can spend time with “Hello Vincent,” a generative Artificial Intelligence project that allows visitors to have “a unique, personalized encounter” with Vincent van Gogh. According to CBS Sunday Morning, whose report we’ve included above, “Hello Vincent” allows museum visitors to converse with Van Gogh and ask him questions. His responses draw on a …

Chronolog is an interactive map of timelapse photographs designed to help monitor the environment. It is a citizen science project which encourages organizations and individuals to engage with nature while recording and monitoring the changing environment.The Chronolog map allows you to explore timelapse photos of nature which have been captured around the USA (and one or two in other countries