This work documents the history and possible origin(s) of a musical hook which consists of the phrase
"Who let the dogs out" in combination with the sound of dogs barking. [more inside] posted by latkes at 11:00 PM PST - 36 comments
The 2015 finalists for the American Society of Microbiologists'agar art winners have been announced! Agar art, also sometimes called petri dish art or microbial art, is a technique in which colonies of bacteria or fungi are grown on agar plates to produce a pattern. If you want to see more, the Daily Dish posts a new art plate every single day. Previously. posted by sciatrix at 10:10 PM PST - 9 comments
The Project Apollo Archive has uploaded to Flickr all photographs taken by the Apollo missions to the moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). [more inside] posted by nubs at 6:47 PM PST - 40 comments
If we found it orbiting another star, this world would surely be hailed as the most Earthlike exoplanet known: the best place yet to search for alien life. No doubt you sense there is a catch, and indeed there is. It is not orbiting another star; it is the planet closest to home right here in our own solar system. The world I¡¯m talking about is Venus: The Earth-Twin Planet That Nobody Talks About posted by Evilspork at 5:53 PM PST - 73 comments
This week, the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota and a local Black Lives Matters group came to an agreement to prevent the disruption of this Sunday's Twin Cities Marathon. [more inside] posted by roomthreeseventeen at 5:44 PM PST - 29 comments
A study published in the journal Animal Behavior found that crows can recognize their fellow dead crows and learn to avoid the dangerous circumstances associated with death. The BBC described the study, which involved a "masked individual playing bad cop, arriving on the scene holding up a dead crow." [more inside] posted by Rangi at 3:53 PM PST - 39 comments
First Disclosure & Sam Smith covered Drake's latest hit Hotline Bling. Now we may have the definitive interpretation by Erykah Badu [more inside] posted by JoeBlubaugh at 2:22 PM PST - 14 comments
"The Fall" is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed by Tarsem Singh. The opening title sequence is the "perfect example of a director¡¯s absolute control over his vision."
Ebert described the movie as "a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms. Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself. Tarsem... has made a movie that you might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it. " [more inside] posted by growabrain at 2:16 PM PST - 39 comments
I've listened to most of the Wartime podcast and enjoy it. But there is one episode that really caught my attention. As a Canadian, I don't know a great deal about the American Revolution and I had no idea that a huge number of Germans fought for the British. This episode gives a fascinating glimpse into who these Germans were. Check it out. posted by Phormio at 1:09 PM PST - 68 comments
Quantum cryptography could render all our protections worthless soon(ish). But cunning cryptographers have other tricks up their sleeves. posted by Wrinkled Stumpskin at 1:07 PM PST - 20 comments
"The Conservative government is not afraid to defend Canadian values." Welcome to the home stretch of the Canadian election! [more inside] posted by Kitteh at 1:01 PM PST - 226 comments
The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon was a philanthropist and animal lover who gave millions and millions of dollars to various organizations, especially after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2012. PETA's headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, is named after Simon, as is a 182-foot ship used by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Simon died earlier this year, at which time the Sam Simon Foundation was established by a trust he had set up. The Foundation is now under fire for not continuing to support Simon's pet causes, including the MY Sam Simon and his dog, Columbo, a rescued Cane Corso, "a mastiff breed that some people consider a pit bull on steroids" whose care may cost more than $140,000 a year. posted by Etrigan at 12:07 PM PST - 51 comments
If you happen to drive along NM-137, a quiet rural road in south-east New Mexico, you'll drive through Queen, a former ghost town that is once again inhabited by the living. Slow down and you'll see a monument to The Flying Paper Boy Of The Guadalupes, Frank Kindel. [more inside] posted by filthy light thief at 11:50 AM PST - 3 comments
After the triumph of OK Computer, Radiohead fell into a creative tailspin -- and frontman Thom Yorke into a nervous breakdown. Exhausted from touring, hounded by press, and jaded by copycats, he escaped into the electronica scene pioneered by Kraftwerk and Warp Records -- fertile ground, the band discovered. Trading spacey rock for apocalyptic brooding, they teased their new sound not with singles or music videos but with innovative web streaming and cryptic, dreamlike "blips" -- winterlands, flocks of cubes, eyeballs, bears. After nearly breaking up over tracklist angst, they cut the kid in half. Thus fifteen years ago today, Kid A and (later) Amnesiac debuted, a confounding mix of electronic fugue, whalesong, pulsing IDM, drunken piano, and epic jazz funeral whose insights into anxiety, political dysfunction, and climate crisis would make it one of the most revered albums of the twenty-first century. See the documentary Reflections on Kid A for interviews and live cuts, or look inside for much more. [more inside] posted by Rhaomi at 11:45 AM PST - 63 comments
[T]here are immediate practical benefits to trolling. The way we¡¯ve designed the Internet has made the old cliché ¡°There¡¯s no such thing as bad publicity¡± actually come true. It¡¯s now possible to monetize any kind of attention, good or bad¡ªand if your gift happens to be generating the bad kind of attention, then it¡¯s well within reach to make trolling into a full-time career. Arthur Chu writes about ¡°The Big Business of Internet Bigotry¡± for The Daily Beast. posted by Going To Maine at 10:39 AM PST - 82 comments
"The famous festival in Nevada has a policy of ¡®inclusion¡¯ yet you won¡¯t see many ¡®burners¡¯ who are black. Is it unwelcoming, or are there other matters in play?" [Slightly NSFW] posted by I-baLL at 9:48 AM PST - 53 comments
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a bronchial spasm. That is, at least, according to William Delisle Hay¡¯s 1880 novella The Doom of the Great City. It imagines the entire population of London choked to death under a soot-filled fog. The story is told by the event¡¯s lone survivor sixty years later as he recalls ¡°the greatest calamity that perhaps this earth has ever witnessed¡± at what was, for Hay¡¯s first readers, the distant future date of 1942. -- Brett Beasley in the Public Domain review on one of the first modern urban apocalypse stories. posted by The Whelk at 9:30 AM PST - 8 comments
Jon Hendren spent an entire segment talking about Edward Scissorhands instead of Edward Snowden. No one noticed. posted by Windigo at 9:07 AM PST - 60 comments
Salman Rushdie's a 68-year-old award-winning novelist but he can also spit bars ¡ª Drake's bars. In this clip from Exhibitionists, a new CBC Arts series premiering Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 4:30pm, watch Rushdie read selected lyrics from hip hop icon Drake.
After a pair of baseball announcers roasted a group of selfie-taking women, members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority at Arizona State University, in the stands at an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game, SBNation fires back: Taking photos at sporting events isn't worthy of ridicule. It's simply how fans in the 21st century document moments of their lives. posted by everybody had matching towels at 8:38 AM PST - 213 comments
What old age is really like. Getting beyond "Generic Old Man" and "Eccentric Old Woman" by examining literature by 'natives' of old age. posted by BuddhaInABucket at 8:36 AM PST - 6 comments
"I'm trying to think of when my birth story begins, and even though this isn't fair to my son and isn't part of his story, I know it has something to do with when my sadness begins." Part of the Exposing the Silence project. posted by divined by radio at 8:36 AM PST - 4 comments
"This is a digitized version of an in-store cassette tape that was played within a Kmart store. See the title of the file for the month and year. I worked at Kmart between 1989 and 1999 and held onto them with the hopes that they would be of use some day. Enjoy!" (via) posted by griphus at 8:27 AM PST - 42 comments
Project Oil Sands - "In the late 1950s, Dr. Manley Natland, a passionate, lifelong geologist working for the Richfield Oil Corporation, hatched a gonzo idea to harness the power of a nuclear explosion for the benefit of bitumen extraction in Alberta¡¯s oil sands. He proposed a plan to plant an atomic bomb deep below the oil sands, set it off and start pumping the oil freed up by the intense heat of the explosion." posted by thatwhichfalls at 8:05 AM PST - 25 comments
Photographs of crumbling modernist architecture in Paris. This is a sampling of the photography in Laurent Kronental's "Souvenir d'un Futur" exhibit, showing the crumbling majesty of Paris' architectural experiments during a period of great growth. posted by ChrisR at 7:08 AM PST - 34 comments
Here is a big collection of old photos from the Grand Canyon. Among others, there are photos from John Wesley Powell's expeditions down the Colorado river in the 1870's. Pictures of people touring the canyon rim by car in the early 1900's, and ladies going down into the canyon by mule in 1909 wearing very nice hats. There are pictures of Hopi dancers on the rim from the 1940's. And there are pictures of park rangers leading fishing trips down into the canyon in the 1940's, and pictures of the early commercial Colorado River trips in the 1930's through the 1950's. posted by colfax at 2:57 AM PST - 5 comments
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