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- Category: InterviewsNovember 18
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DRB Exclusive Interviews with Writers, Artists, Adventurers
Exclusive:
Interview with Nancy Kress
High fantasy to hard science - a mysterious transition
Exclusive: Interview with
John C. Wright
Adventures in Space & Magic
Exclusive:
Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
A Triumph of the Bizarre... and the Rise of Squidpunk - Link Latte 87November 17
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#87 - Week of November 16, 2008
The Farthest Humanmade Object from Earth - [fascinating]
Survival drama in the Soviet bunker - [strange]
Incredible Huge Earth Art, similar to this - [wow art]
The wildest way to keep your car going! - [video, start at 2:00]
The Perfumed Jungle: Super City for Hong Kong - [architecture]
Gorgeous Steampunk Watches, info - [gadgets]
Bizarre Aurora on Saturn, info - [space]
More of the awesome recycled housing - [architecture]
- Creative Food ManipulationNovember 10
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #496
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Pimp My Food!- For the sake of Art and Stomach.
These wildly creative examples of artfully augmented food (that anybody can make, provided they got Michelangelo's sculpture skills and nearly limitless free time) can be then displayed in upscale New York art galleries (until they go bad) and bring their creators untold riches and client commissions. So then - who needs to eat boring food ever again?
(images credit: Tzessler, Voichenko and Stanislav Volyazlovski)
- Creative Food ManipulationNovember 9
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #496
link
Pimp My Food!- For the sake of Art and Stomach.
These wildly creative examples of artfully augmented food (that anybody can make, provided they got Michelangelo's sculpture skills and nearly limitless free time) can be then displayed in upscale New York art galleries (until they go bad) and bring their creators untold riches and client commissions. So then - who needs to eat boring food ever again?
- The Mimicry of SpidersNovember 7
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #495
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Text written by Atila, a Brazilian biologist who writes about biology and evolution to Rainha Vermelha and manages Lablogatórios, a Portuguese language science blogs community.
All dressed up for dinner.
Before we discuss the fantastic mimicry (camouflage and adaptation) that some spiders employ for hunting and waiting for prey, let's have a look at how spectacular (and notably cute) these creatures can get. Here, for example, is the "Snow White":
Salticidae (or "Jumping Spider") is a true hunter among spider family. Instead of building a web and sitting on it, these spiders hunt actively relying on their exceptional vision. Such highly developed visual sense and fantastic eye arrangement play a significant role, when females choose males.
Not to be outdone, the males, too, have very colorful displays and well-ritualized mating techniques, as you can see on the next pictures (courtesy Opo Terser):
"What are you looking at?" -
The colors are wonderful: blue, red formal wear... "A Bluebeard"? -
This guy looks particularly wise with his white beard:
Look into these headlights...
Every one has it's own expression... This is a little coy:
Zebra stripes and orange pom-poms (Maevia inclemens):
Athletic fit:
Old and wise:
I Can Has Cheezburger? -
Jabba the Hutt (actually, the vary large wolf spider - Hogna species) -
(all above images courtesy Opo Terser)
Awww!..
(image credit: Hannes Mitchell)
Hilarious jumping spider mating behavior:
"A male jumping spider trying very hard to excite a female jumping spider. That thing it does...with it's front legs... He taps, he scrapes, he turns and twists...he stops!... Make sure you turn up the volume on your speakers...the sounds are half the act"
