[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- The star that kept exploding [Space Porn]
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160,000 light years away, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an object is being expelled from the remnant of a supernova at 500 million miles an hour. And NASA got this shot of it.
- Ask a Physicist: Could you survive a trip to the nearest star? [Ask A Physicist]
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Could we travel to the nearest stars in a human lifetime? Yes. If we could harness the full power of the sun, it would be far less unpleasant than you think.
- Music students build a robot orchestra that can improvise [Robot Music]
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NPR has an amazing story about music students building the Karmetic Machine Orchestra, a set of robots that play sitars, bass guitars and pianos, plus weird made-up instruments. And they're programmed with complex improvisation. And it's compared to robot sex.
- The jungle that orders and disorders the world [Science Art]
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I love these rich oil paintings by Andy Harper, an artist who often works with images of jungles and natural scenes, making them so abstract that they become textile patterns. He also paints on unusual surfaces, like old ship anchors.
- Before you conquer a planet, you must first survey it from above [Concept Art]
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Check out this amazing concept art from online space game Galactic Conquest, by artist Zane Bien. You can practically reach out and touch the juicy planet below – ripe and awaiting your conquering armies. Wallpaper-sized version at the link.
- Los Angeles, mysteriously without cars [Alternate Universe]
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Filmmaker Ross Ching created this short film, Running on Empty, imagining the usually traffic-clogged L.A. without an auto in sight. It's a masterfully simple piece of cinematic trickery — and a perfect look at L.A. after the zombie apocalypse.
- A leaked first look at J.J. Abrams' new spy show Undercovers [J J Abrams]
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The purported first twenty pages of Undercovers — J.J. Abrams' married spy thriller debuting on NBC this fall — were leaked to the Italian website Il Post. What's the show about? Sexy espionage action and unsexy married life.
[Even if you are spoilerphobic, at least click through to see the lead pic on this article. -L]
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