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Wow! This beautiful watch by Van Cleef & Arpels is part of their Poetic Astronomy series, and is called the Midnight Planétarium. Containing 396 moving parts, it accurately tracks planetary orbits. In case you ever really needed a visual reminder of your location in our little galaxy. Via the Daily Mail: Mercury will make a […]
Read MoreNew York has announced plans to invest $32 million into building a new animal terminal in JFK Airport. So far, from the renders, it looks like it’s going to have more perks than the human part of the airport… Via TIME: The 172,165 square-foot facility, dubbed the ARK, will include “a state-of-the-art veterinary hospital, animal […]
Read MoreAlien life aficionados hoping for a First Contact situation in their lifetimes can now feel a bit more assured. Thanks to a Russian billionaire, there’s been a huge investment into the field, called ‘Breakthrough Listen’, focused on figuring out whether we’re the only intelligent life in the universe. From PopSci: Now the hunt for alien […]
Read More…there was Letraset. In celebration of 25 years of Photoshop, Lynda released a video of Sean Adams, showing us how to mock up a layout using traditional tools: If you liked that video, there are other great 25th anniversary videos out there, including this CreativeLive video of Photoshop experts, trying their hand at using Photoshop […]
Read MoreNick Offerman’s been on a roll. In his entertaining new PSA for kids, Nick Offerman shows people around his ‘pizza farm’: The ad is a parody, aimed at getting Congress to approve the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, produced by the American Heart Association and comedy website Funny or Die. According to TIME: The […]
Read More…is a GoPro strapped to a Jedi. Work those lightsaber katas! Ingenious and entertaining parody of the usual GoPro extreme sports-type videos. Via slashfilm: As you can see, it starts simple with the Jedi taking on some of the Empire’s least accurate soldiers, but then he ends up facing some speeder bikes, a TIE Fighter […]
Read More…is a 360º interactive Youtube trailer for the upcoming Warcraft film. Titled Skies of Azeroth, it lets you fly across Stormwind, one of the cities in the Warcraft universe, on the back of the gryphon, and it’s amazing. Check it out on Chrome or on your mobile devices (phone/ipad/etc): Created by Industrial Light and Magic, […]
Read MoreSpeaking of astronomy, this week’s biggest astronomy news was NASA’s Pluto mission – the #PlutoFlyBy. After 9 years and 3 billion miles of travel, New Horizons flew past Pluto, transmitting incredible images back to Earth: Via NASA: The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. […]
Read MoreWow. Check out some of the incredible photographs shortlisted for the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2015 competition. The awards ceremony is in September, where the winner will be announced. Love, love this image of the moon over the alps in Turin, Italy, by Stefano De Rosa. Good luck Stefano! About the Insight Astronomy […]
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