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Unwoman? Strange name, you may say. Unwoman is a San Francisco based Steampunk artist. She's unique in my opinion. The way she uses a cello (well, several cellos) in her music is very special, very different to e.g. Rasputina. I have all her work, including her latest achievement, "Lemniscate, uncovered 2", which is an amazing collection of covers of more or less known music. (This of course depends on what you know.) Unwoman I had…

Here a computer is delivered. The photo is from 1957. Let that humongous thing sink in and then realise that your smartphone or tablet outpowers that thing...

Now this is nothing shocking, I tend to do that (or Blurays). There's something annoying about buying films like that though, and I think it's mainly on DVDs although I might be mistaken. What's that? Well, I pop in the disc and sit back for the film. First I see a message that the opinions in the film are not necessarily those of the film-makers. Fine, roll it. Then I see a message that it's…

Enough talk about the how and what of meditation, don't you agree? Why do people meditate? What's the goal, what do they want to achieve with it? Short answer: whatever you like. Long answer: you can meditate to find peace and rest. Meditation can be employed to calm yourself down, to relax and unwind from the day. Depending on the way you meditate you can also taken on stress. Stress is like a fine layer…

"Ars Technica's Peter Bright reports on a Netware 3.12 server that has been decommissioned after over 16 years of continuous operation. The plug was pulled when noise from the server's hard drives become intolerable. From the article: 'It's September 23, 1996. It's a Monday. The Macarena is pumping out of the office radio, mid-way through its 14 week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, doing little to improve the usual Monday gloom...Sixteen and…

This story will warm you better than a coffee on a cold winter day: "We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we're approaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter - 'Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended' They pay for their order, take the two and leave. I ask my friend: 'What are those 'suspended' coffees ?'…

No, I'm not drunk. A soundscraper is a serious thing in the race towards clean energy. As found on Inhabitat: An entry in the 2013 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, the Soundscrapers would be constructed near major motorways and railroad junctions, prime locations for capturing ambient vibrations. A sound-sucking material would cover the exterior of the tower with a double-skin layer, held away from the façade on a metallic frame. For each Soundscraper, 84,000 electro-active lashes would cover the…

How many folks do you know who say they don't want to drink anything before going to bed because they'll have to get up during the night!! Interesting....... Something else I didn't know ... Why do people need to urinate so much at night time? Answer from a Cardiac Doctor - Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body…

Found on nature.com: Nanowires show sodium chloride may cause harmful T-cell growth. The incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, has spiked in developed countries in recent decades. In three studies published today in Nature, researchers describe the molecular pathways that can lead to autoimmune disease1 and identify one possible culprit that has been right under our noses — and on our tables — the entire time: salt2, 3. To stay healthy, the…

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