the winnowing oar: an itinerant floating city in the Pangeos Terayacht and other mega projects from Saudi Arabia—via Things Magazine
mรถnitรถr nรธn: previously unheard audio from the first gigs of British rock band The Fall
imperial isolate: gold coin in a museum cupboard proves existence of Sponsian, an emperor heretofore dismissed as fake—via Digg
artificial gravity: spinning spacecraft don’t supply a wholly satisfactory solution to the effects of zero-g for human anatomypurple tomato: an anthocyanin-rich vegetable is a heuristic for exploring the distinction between genetic modification and selective-breeding—via Damn Interesting’s Curated Links
feed-back loop: schema for artificial neural networks from the 1940s up to the present—via Web Curios
anyox: an abandoned copper mining operation in British Columbia is Canada’s largest ghost town