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• Musician Doubles BPM up to a Trillion I was struck by how it’s essentially a continuous tone after about 2,000 BPM. Makes one wonder if anything in the Universe is really continuous or if all of it is fundamentally discrete. Also makes you wonder how animals like bees perceive the world.…
• A $300, Fully-Functional Microscope Design by IBM Super-cool. I look forward to bookmarking this, telling myself that I’ll finally put Pi Zero to good use, and never doing this 🤘…
• Note 0002 Perhaps not as incredibly astounding as this overlay of Spectre1 on the opening credits of the movie but this one of How to Disappear Completely over a few scenes from Lost in Translation just fits somehow. From the comments: “It was a wise decision…
• A 1st Century Villa in Positano When I was about 13 or so, I was blown away when I learned that ancient Greek and Roman statues used to be painted and were not commissioned to be ghostly-white. An all-time favorite is this Greek sculpture of a Persian archer. Source: “We know Gr…
• A Fremen Mama Well not really. I was immediately reminded of (a) where I grew up and (b) Dune when I saw this photo of a Bedouin mother and her child. “Bedouin Mother”, Ilo Battigelli, 1948 (Source Unknown) Intense and so beautiful. It was composed by this ch…
• Letting the Cat Out of the Bag From the United Automobile Worker magazine, 1937: “What did you tell that man just now?” “I told him to hurry.” “What right do you have to tell him to hurry?” “I pay him to hurry.” “How much do you pay him?” “Four dollars a day.” “Where do you get t…

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  Black HoleCharles Burns (1995-2005)

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  Se7enDavid Seidman and Ralph Tedesco (2008)

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  The Strangest ManGraham Farmelo (2009)

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  Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk RoadsEvelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum (1983)

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  TogetherLuke Adam Hawker (2021)

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  Ice HavenDaniel Clowes (2005)

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  Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s BooksGeorges Perec (2020)

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