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Daily Archives: 10.01.2014
Cannibal Buildings! Why MoMA Is Eating Its Next Door Neighbor
This week, MoMA confirmed its plans to raze its neighbor, a folk art museum, creating a continuous connection to the luxury supertall going up next door. It seems that, unlike earlier versions of the museum as a cultural type—an institution designed to serve as vessels of Enlightenment culture for the working class—the modern museum is more like a vessel of real estate.
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A Pilgrimage to the Buried Electrical Network Outside Los Angeles
On our way back from …
These Doomsday Planes Protect Heads of State When Disaster Strikes
In the event of a nuclear strike on American soil, we’re going to be in a little bit of trouble. But at least we’ll die safe in the knowledge that the valiant leaders of our nation—or any yahoos lucky enough to be in office at the time—will be escaping the nuclear holocaust in a fleet of environmentally-impervious airborne command centers.
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Why You Sleep at Night
It’s not just because it’s dark. Well, it partly is, but more accurately it’s a result of a complex series of biological processes which give rise to something called circadian rhythms.
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Every party needs to have this fun pool that lets you walk on water
By Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Casey Chan to Gizmodo
Here’s a trick you can do for your next house party: fill the pool with non-Newtonian fluid and have people run across it, dance all over it, ride their bikes over it and so forth. Like, come on dude, you’re walking on water, how can you not have fun?
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