Don’t sleep.

via the Comedy Geek

Installation and show up now in Museum 52’s London space. Via Arkitip, which has more images.

If you saw this shit without prior knowledge, you might think it was a hoax. But it’s potentially real, even if the video is a recreation. Via Wikipedia:

Since its Prelinger Archives release, the film has provoked much controversy. Ken Smith, author of Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945 - 1970, believes the film is fake. He mentions, among other things, that the decapitated dog scene shown in the film could have been produced with simple special effects. Smith cites only his reaction to the film as evidence. Others are skeptical of J. B. S. Haldane’s ties to the Communist party; they propose that the film was produced as Soviet propaganda.

However, while the film could have been re-staged for the camera, it almost certainly depicts a series of real experiments. Bryukhonenko’s work with canine circulation seems obscure today, but at the time was well publicized; his decapitation experiment was even remarked upon by George Bernard Shaw.[1] Bryukhonenko’s procedures are attested to in numerous books and medical papers, with some sources providing detailed technical information on the operations shown in the film. These texts also shed light on failures not mentioned in the film. For example, the severed heads survived only minutes in artificial circulation, while the resuscitated dogs often died after a few days while the film says the severed heads lived for hours and the resuscitated dogs lived for years.

Via Buzzfeed.

This kid is living the dream. Via Neatorama.

Just opened last month at Hershey Amusement Park in PA, not too far from NYC. A long story about how it was built:

In just two months’ time, riders will crest this same piece of steel, then hurtle down a record-setting 97-degree slope—yes, that’s 7 degrees past vertical—on the steepest and most severe roller-coaster descent in the United States. “When you come over the apex of the curve, you’re lifted forward into the harness,” says Kent Bachmann, the park’s director of design and engineering. “The track actually disappears for a few seconds.” And that’s just the beginning: Fahrenheit will provide 2 solid minutes of corkscrews, barrel rolls and inversions. “That way every time you get on this ride,” Bachmann says, “you can have a different experience.

Video of the ride.

From my new favorite website, The Daily Galaxy:

Cosmological calculations indicate that the vast array of objects we can detect are just foam on top of a vast invisible sea of matter we can’t detect, and two teams think the key to the undetectable lies in our very own star.

Foam on top of a vast invisible sea—I’ve been saying that for years. More on dark matter, and lots of great images, not including the key to the undetectable, over here.

This is one of the more disturbing videos I’ve ever seen, for meta reasons. How can just watching a video make you feel like a racist? Why does just knowing the racist depictions that play off images like this one somehow feel self-incriminating? This one fucked me up.

Via Denver Egotist.

This article explains a lot:

Grandin has compiled a list of jobs and their suitability to Aspies and autistics according to their skills. No surprise, tech jobs are cited early and often. Her list of “good jobs for visual thinkers”, for example, includes computer programming, drafting (including computer-aided drafting), computer troubleshooting and repair, web page design, video game design and computer animation.

Why do Asperger’s individuals gravitate to technology?

“Adults with Asperger’s have a social naivety that prevents them from understanding how people relate. What draws them in is not parties and social interaction, but work that allows them to feel safe, to feel in control,” explains Steve Becker, a developmental disabilities therapist at Becker & Associates, a private practice in the Seattle suburb of Des Moines, Washington, that conducts ongoing small group sessions for adults with AS, among other services. “What’s better for that than a video game or a software program?” Becker asks. “When you’re designing a software program, there are rules and protocols to be followed. In life, there is no manual.”

Via New Shelton

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