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Top 10 Most Popular Hi-Fructose Posts of 2013. 2013 was filled with art discoveries that pushed our curiosity to new heights. While we continued to bring you the best in drawing, painting, sculpture and the gallery scenes from cities across the world, the Hi-Fructose blog took an interest in surprising new media — from artfully animated GIFs to laser-cut sculptures. The most popular posts of 2013 certainly reflect this trend. Our coverage is not limited to a single movement or aesthetic, but the artworks featured in our top 10 most-viewed posts of the year share a “wow” factor for their exquisite craftsmanship and unexpected subject matter. We look forward to another year of tickling your eyeballs with the most interesting art from around the globe. As we welcome 2014, take a look at our round-up of our most popular posts of the last year. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. The psychedelic and grotesque proto-GIFs of the 19th century. Phenakistoscope disc, Fores (publisher), Moving Panorama, England, 1833.
Richard Balzer’s love affair began about 40 years ago, when he saw his first magic lantern — an early image projector invented in the 1600s. The experience would prove transformative. "I was just stunned," he says. "I think I fell in love. " Balzer, a New York native, was working abroad as a photographer at the time, but the encounter kindled a dormant passion that would persist for decades. Phenakistoscope disc, England, 1833. Balzer, 69, has spent the past five years curating a virtual museum of his collection online, publishing detailed drawings, diagrams, and photographs of the 19th-century animations he’s accumulated over the years.
Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau is widely credited with inventing the phenakistoscope in 1832 as part of a study on how the eye perceives illusions. Zoetrope strip, produced by The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., c.1870. Zoetrope disc (base), England, c. 1870. Microwave News | Would You Believe… Specific Frequencies Block Growth of Cancer Cells.
A couple of months ago, the British Journal of Cancer published a paper detailing some extraordinary results: very specific types of weak electromagnetic (EM) fields were able to stabilize and shrink liver tumors in advanced cancer patients who had exhausted other treatment options. A press release was issued describing how the EM treatment was far more effective than the only available FDA-approved drug. It was pretty much ignored. No one believed it. Today, the British Journal of Cancer is releasing a follow-up paper by the same research group, led by Boris Pasche of the University of Alabama medical school in Birmingham. It might help convince skeptics that EM cancer therapy is more than pie in the sky. The new paper shows that the same signals that were effective in patients disrupted cancer cells in the laboratory.
Pasche concedes that there is no known biophysical mechanism to explain what they are seeing. We're waiting to see if anyone pays attention this time. Clear Noise - seeper. Finally, A Transition Plan towards a Resource Based Economy: The 4-Hour Work-day. When explaining what a Resource Based Economy is and how it would help society and the planet to live a better life, one of the most asked questions by the audience or public in general is the one about transition.
If we manage to convince the audience that the Resource Based Economy model is the way to go, we will get questions like: “Ok, it sounds great but......how do we get there?” There is really not a clear answer for that question, but that could change soon if The Zeitgeist Movement embraces a plan that has been discussed by some economists and activists lately but has not become popular yet: The 4 hour work-day. Carlos “Carlin” Tovar, a Peruvian architect, graphic designer and a renowned cartoonist, is proposing a reduction of working hours from 8 to 4 hours a day. But technology is not the problem, he adds. Although he is the only one who has launched a campaign so far, he is not the only person who advocates for work time reductions. How to Find Fulfilling Work. By Maria Popova “If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,” wrote Dostoevsky, “all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”
Indeed, the quest to avoid work and make a living of doing what you love is a constant conundrum of modern life. In How to Find Fulfilling Work (public library) — the latest installment in The School of Life’s wonderful series reclaiming the traditional self-help genre as intelligent, non-self-helpy, yet immensely helpful guides to modern living, which previously gave us Philippa Perry’s How to Stay Sane and Alain de Botton’s How to Think More About Sex — philosopher Roman Krznaric (remember him?) Explores the roots of this contemporary quandary and guides us to its fruitful resolution: Never have so many people felt so unfulfilled in their career roles, and been so unsure what to do about it.
Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that. Sustainability by design | TED Playlists. Afrocentric Architecture: A Design Primer: David Hughes: 9781570741005: Amazon.com. Look Inside BMW's Ultra-Green i3 Factory. BMW claims to have halved the production time from what it was a decade ago, partly by buying into the sourcing process with a joint venture with carbon specialists SGL Automotive Carbon Fibres to weave carbon thread into dry mats at its hydroelectric powered plant in Washington State. The mats contain a binder agent, and when they arrive at the Leipzig factory they are preformed using ultrasound to activate the binder agent and hold an approximate shape.
Each body side uses nine panels. Before the resin is added, most of the excess is trimmed. Normally these scraps would be useless, but BMW uses a special combing machine to align the scrap fibers so they can be reformed into a series of strong preformed panels, which are used to make the i3's non-load-bearing roof. Cleanliness is so vital that workers wear gloves—the sweat off a finger can ruin a glued joint. Smule, a Social Network for Making Music. Maria Limperos is a closet chanteuse. Several nights a week, after her kids and husband nod off, the pharmacist from Columbus, Ohio, takes her iPhone into her bedroom closet and opens an application called Sing! Karaoke. Under the user name Maria66, she has recorded about 1,000 songs over the past two years—some covers of hits such as Killing Me Softly and Total Eclipse of the Heart, some original songs.
She’s recorded duets with strangers as far away as Australia. Limperos is one of roughly 125 million people who use social music-making apps from Smule, a five-year-old startup that takes users a few steps beyond conventional karaoke or button-mashing video games such as Guitar Hero. On Oct. 1 the company unveiled a revamped website, Smule Nation, which highlights select performances from users across all of its apps through a social network accessible online by anyone with a personal computer. That audience is limited somewhat by the software’s relatively high learning curve.
Sarah Ryhanen Saipua World's End Farm. Recombination (Coulter-Smith 2006: ch. 4, p. 5) Simon Starling's System Simon Starling’s work offers a prime instance of a creative process in which the autonomous association of ideas operates in conjunction with the toolbox of reasoning: system, rules and conventions. Starling describes his working method as ‘connecting the previously unconnected’, which recalls the Surrealist’s ‘juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities’. But Starling’s work does not exhibit any obvious evidence of a Surrealist influence.
Specifically his work does not subscribe to the Surrealist supposition that creativity stems from a Freudian ‘primitive’ unconscious; a concept exploited, for example, in the work of contemporary artists such as John Bock, Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades and Elke Krystufek. Starling’s work does exhibit a creative process, indeed it can be said to represent creative process.
The first three notes are the ‘original’ cell, the following three notes are its ‘retrograde inversion’ (backwards and upside down). Original painting See This 12x16 inches. by RuGomezPaintings. Top 10 Uses For Used Coffee Grounds. 1. Deodorizer. Dry them out on a cookie sheet and then put them in a bowl in your refrigerator or freezer, or rub them on your hands to get rid of food prep smells. 2. Plant food. Plants such as rosebushes, azaleas, rhododendrons, evergreen and camellias that prefer acidic soils will appreciate the leftovers from your morning cup. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. And, finally, the top use for used coffee grounds....drum roll here.... 10. For even more uses of spent coffee grounds, visit essortment.com and rd.com. Love learning about alternative uses for everyday things? Tagged : coffee, How-To, cleaning, alternative_uses Room : Kitchen. Paper Airplane Push Pins. PRISMATOY | Desktop Toys, Kinetic Sculpture. Psilocybin Mushroom Vaults : The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide.
This document may be freely copied and distributed so long as the following conditions are met: This document provides complete directions for cultivating psilocybin mushrooms in your home. The strain this guide is intended to help you grow is Psilocybe cubensis (Amazonian strain) mushrooms. It is the intent of this document to enable the first time grower to succeed at a minimal cost and with a minimal amount of effort.
This growing guide is the only reference you will need. After a person has completed the entire cycle successfully, later generations of mushrooms can be grown with even less cost and effort. The initial cash outlay will be well under $100 for a fully automated shroom factory. Subsequent crops can be produced for several dollars with expected yields of several ounces of dried mushrooms. Table of contents: 3.22 : 2005 Dec : by Erowid.org : Typo fixes on suggestion of reader. 3.22 : 2005 Nov : by Erowid.org :Removed PF address on suggestion of reader. One last note. Botanical Moss Tea Towel. A Peek Inside the May Pairings Box (The Smoke Box)
May 22nd, 2013 This month’s Pairings Box was devoted to smoke. We wanted it to smell like campfire when you opened your box, and I think we achieved that goal with the month’s Premium Ingredient, Hickory Smoked Pacific Sea Salt. This month’s recipe collection included: Sweet Potato Chips with Hickory Smoked Pacific Sea Salt Turntable Kitchen’s Smoky 6 Ounce Cheeseburger Baked Vanilla Cake Donuts with Maple and Meyer Lemon Glaze You can read about the exclusive 7″ featured in this month’s box over on the Turntable side of things.
We are currently accepting new subscribers to the Pairings Box beginning with the June Box. As always, we recommend that you sign up for our mailing list to stay informed about all things related to the Pairings Box (including updates, special announcements, and discounts). Are you a Pairings Box subscriber? If Disney princesses were evil [9 pictures] NONPROFIT CRM: Fundraising & Constituent Management for Large Nonprofits. National Institute on Money in State Politics | Follow The Money. Only Harrisburg Art Magazine Midtown Scholar Bookstore Harrisburg Pennsylvania. In praise of Boston. I wanted to tell you about my race yesterday at the Boston Marathon.
That is what I wanted to do. I wanted to tell you everything about what happened to me during the race. I wanted to tell you about leaving my Garmin in the hotel, and running the race with only a 1980s era digital wristwatch. I wanted to tell you my splits for every mile of the race, how I started out strong, but then just gradually lost the energy to keep up the pace I had planned. I wanted to tell you all about it. I wanted to tell you that I finished in 3:39, 17 minutes slower than my PR, and that I was disappointed with that.
But instead, I'm going to tell you about the people of Boston, and the way they come together, by the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands, for one day every year, to celebrate what we runners sometimes take for granted. Before and after the race, I had dozens of ordinary people, not runners, stop me to tell me how proud they were of me. This race had thousands of volunteers. Art. Trompe l’oeil painted constructions by ron isaacs (via colossal) . DIY Furniture Transformations. Optimizing µTorrent for Mac For Speed. Introduction This guide shows how to speed up downloads in the freeware bittorrent client, µTorrent for Mac. All bittorrent programs need to have their incoming and outgoing communications flow freely in order to achieve the highest download speeds and that is what this guide is about. .
This guide was put together using information given by the developers of bittorrent programs at their forums, guides and FAQs. There are no secret tricks, just the real basics of proper set up of a bittorrent program. Following these simple steps should result in increased download speed. These are the basic principles of optimizing a bittorrent client, like µTorrent, for speed: Choose a proper port to avoid ISP blocks and conflicts with other programs Forward that port through any software firewall and router to allow incoming connections Adjust internal settings based upon upload capacity of the internet connection to allow room for outgoing communications and to distribute upload efficiently. Steve. 16GB kit (8GBx2), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-10600 upgrades for Apple MacBook Pro 2.0GHz Intel Core i7 (15-inch DDR3) Early-2011 Laptop/Notebook, CT3327367 from Crucial. Time to Tame your Mac! Everything you need to know about Mac memory upgrades from Crucial.com If your Mac is getting a little older, you may notice that it doesn’t run as fast as it used to.
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