So there's a young girl who's making waves making graffiti over in England. Solveig has started making graffiti on legal graffiti walls, and she's a good cartoonist, they're pretty cute and well done. And for a 10 year old, they're much better than I can do.


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So there's this unfortunate story out of Kansas about a kid who ran away in 99 and was never reported missing. He'd be 21 now. And they released images of him:

Original at age 11:


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Australian Rock Art shows evidence of long-standing-contacts
There are several reasons I appreciate rock art. It's beautiful. It's a type of art which can be added to and modified over generations. And like all indigenous art, it represents the time it was created in. Traditions are not static ( Read more... )

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This is a loverly music video.

And also, I blinged out the New Yorker cover:


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I'd forgotten about this page, I used to play with it a lot. Have fun. Make screen shots.
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas

Over on Pharyngula, PZ Myers posted a complaint about the problem of dumbing down museum exhibits today. I've worked on some exhibits myself, and while I've been encouraged to write at a 4th-6th grade level, I've never been encouraged to dumb down the content of the exhibits. I think we have a bit of a challenge in museums today because we have ( Read more... )

Via Gizmodo I found out about a company in the UK that is combining eco-friendly coffins with um...style?

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I was just looking through Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium and saw a recent tattoo of a diatom, which made me want to share their gorgeousness with you all if you haven't heard of or seen them before.

Diatoms are a type of phytoplankton. When I was doing phytolith research, we would frequently find diatoms as well, because there are several ( Read more... )

Banksy is so cool.


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