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Over the span of a month, Adam designed and built an accurate replica of the hedge maze architectural model from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The maze model, as seen in The Overlook Hotel, is only seen briefly, but reference screenshots from throughout the film allowed Adam to painstakingly recreate it. The project ended up as one of Adam's more labor-intensive builds in recent memory!

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Despite their dystopian appearance, the group’s six mining farms encompass eight petahashes per second of computing power, whose brute force as of October accounted for 3 percent of the entire Bitcoin network.

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http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/common-mythconceptions-worlds-most-contagious-falsehoods/

"Most contagious falsehoods" frå Information is Beautifull

Jerry Seinfeld får ein pris frå reklamebransjen, og nyttar høvet til å sei kva han meiner om dei.

I love advertising because I love lying…

... I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard won earnings to buy useless, low quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

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[0]: http://kottke.org/14/09/slow-mo-skateboard-tricks

Oversikt over kor langt antibiotikaresistensen har kome, frå Information is Beautifull.

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Why of all the days of the year, as numerous as the hairs of a cow, did the pope choose to come to the South on the very day we had planned to test our rockets?

– Kim In-yong, Nord-Koreansk rakettforskar

North Korea Says Rocket Launches Had Nothing to Do With Pope’s Visit

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Om automatisering, robotar og den framtidige arbeidsmarknaden.

/via @CiViX

In 10 days here a person would be exposed to as much background radiation as a typical resident of the United States receives from all sources in a year.

... evidence of radiation’s toll: higher frequencies of tumors and physical abnormalities like deformed beaks among birds compared with those from uncontaminated areas, for example, and a decline in the populations of insects and spiders with increasing radiation intensity.

Some bird species, they reported in the journal Functional Ecology, appear to have adapted to the radioactive environment by producing higher levels of protective antioxidants, with correspondingly less genetic damage. For these birds, Dr. Mousseau said, chronic exposure to radiation appears to be a kind of “unnatural selection” driving evolutionary change.

At Chernobyl, Hints of Nature’s Adaptation