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out damn spot : the attempted erasure of a Banksy mural shows one cannot scrub away complicity in genocide   free return trajectory : actin...

Recalling a recent look at the much accelerated process of synthetic geology , we quite enjoyed this introduction to this gem of industr...

A couplet of recent postings about synthetic geology caught our eye—first about the accelerated process of material formation reduced to d...

Though a referendum for independence is not explicitly on the ballot, forty-thousand of the island territory’s population of fifth-six-tho...

From the Amusing Planet’s archives, we are directed towards the 1874 work of engineer and hobbyist astronomer and photographer James Nasmyt...

H and took a summer’s end quick excursion to the dammed Saale river valley to tour the landscape that developed around the reservoirs (Sta...

Decommissioned since 1993 but revitalised since as a living museum and working mine and venue, I had a chance to visit with H’s father th...

wayfinder : Polynesian palm frond and seashell navigational charts   zoned for resimercial : reaction offices and the future of the workpla...

Via Kottke we are directed to a highly compelling project from Dillon Marsh that visualises mines in South Africa with a scale model repre...

After finding a campsite by Möcke Lake in Degerfors, we went to the Cultural Centre with an ensemble of boutiques for handicrafts and local ...

Via Strange Company’s Weekend Link Dump , we learn that during his life time, Edgar Allen Poe’s most popular and best-selling work was th...

H and I decided we would let our vacation be at the mercy of the weather and it started raining without pause from midnight Monday onward, s...

Though not the first or most famous of its class, learning that the mildly mysterious Coso Artefact was discovered on this date in 1961 by s...

For his upcoming coffee table edition of Habitat , Augsburger crop-dusting photographer and graphic designer Tom Hegen , we learn via My Mod...

Not to be outdone by Turkey’s demagoguery in restricting instruction on evolution in public schools, the state of Florida, as Boing Boing ...

In Chichibu Japan there is a lovingly curated collection of stones that resemble faces —and not just your usual run-of-the-mill pareidolia ...

Listening to a really engrossing panel discussion of geologic ice ages and the usual state of affairs of the planet Earth—how the drama has ...

The always intriguing Æon magazine invites us to imagine an ecosystem that’s parallel to our own familiarly flourishing one but possibly qu...

Civilization tends to congregate around sources of energy, and the freer and less effort required the better, from hunting grounds to floodp...

Via The Colossal and Five-Infinity , photographer Andre Ermolaev shares some of his air-borne impressions of Iceland’s rugged and liquid l...