As a typical late night of internet reading goes, have so many tabs open and thus, another over the place, article compilation post is born.

Ageing stem cells from centenarian rejuvenated
PARIS: Age-degraded cells from elderly patients upwards of 100 years old have been successfully transformed into rejuvenated stem cells “indistinguishable” from those found in their embryonic state. [full article]

Kids are watching too much TV; if they’re under two, any TV is too much
That message isn’t reaching parents, however; 66 percent of children under two have watched TV, even though their brains can’t actually process the information meaningfully. [full article]

How Celebrities Took Over Cartoon Voice Acting
… when it comes to movies, recent years have seen big-screen Hollywood voice acting dominated by A-List actors like Bruce Willis, Angelina Jolie, and Robert DeNiro. The latest celebrity-dominated animated film comes now in the Shrek-inspired Puss in Boots, which represents the unholy trinity of Hollywood’s recent favorite trends: 3D, prequels, and spinoffs. [full article]

Lung regeneration closer to reality with new discovery
the research team reports that they have uncovered the biochemical signals in mice that trigger generation of new lung alveoli, the numerous, tiny, grape-like sacs within the lung where oxygen exchange takes place. Specifically, the regenerative signals originate from the specialized endothelial cells that line the interior of blood vessels in the lung. [full article]

She’s Her Own Twin
Lydia Fairchild was a proud mother who faced the most unusual of challenges. She had to fight in court to prove the children born from her body were her own.
The Department of Social Services called Fairchild and told her to come in immediately. What Fairchild thought was a routine meeting with a social worker turned into an interrogation. The proud mother was suddenly a criminal suspect. [full article]

Finally, after the internet got so saturated with ‘platitudes’ from every tom, dick and dickhead to the point it was impossible to distinguish the genuine ones from the fakes… a properly heartfelt tribute to Steve Jobs from his once long lost sister… https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Courtesy of Ray Villafane.  These were created in the New York Botanical Gardens over two days using the two of the world’s heaviest pumpkins, with the big one weighing in at 1,693 pounds (768 kgs)!

Big ups to old pal Fin for bringing this to my gleeful attention: Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward does Pokemon in the style of Adventure Time.  te he.

(oh and if you’ve not seen the best engagement photos ever, do it now).

In general, I try to stay away from politics.  Not just with this blog, but also  thanks to that restraining order (turns out parliment is not actually full of bees and they don’t appreciate the enriching benefits of free honey).  Bad jokes aside, even with election just round the corner, and a burning desire to rant on it, this is too much fun to not post…

https://keyhandshake.tumblr.com/

That there is an image take of the volcano Mt Rainier at sunset.

Standing at 4300 meters above Boulder, Colorado, it’s the only mountain in the area and on this particular day, cast this amazing shadow against the clouds. It’s a beautiful image and quite surreal, but I love it more for the fact that it gives the impression of a larger scale to the world on a very simple, yet natural level.

Image links to a hi-res version and further collections of images can be found at https://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/132629943.html.

Strange to note, but I’ve finally been cooking often at home since moving in some months ago, which probably contributes to my liking of this series. (Plus they also look like moons.  Yes.)

Christopher Jonassen

Irregardless, this is pretty damn impressive.

It is familiarly said that beer … is an acquired taste; one gradually trains oneself — or just comes — to enjoy that flavor. What flavor? The flavor of the first sip? No one could like that flavor, an experienced beer drinker might retort: ‘Beer tastes different to the experienced beer drinker. If beer went on tasting to me the way the first sip tasted, I would never have gone on drinking beer! Or to put the same point the other way around, if my first sip of beer had tasted to me the way my most recent sip just tasted, I would never have had to acquire the taste in the first place! I would have loved the first sip as much as the one I just enjoyed.’ If we let this speech pass, we must admit that beer is not an acquired taste. No one comes to enjoy the way the first sip tasted. Instead, prolonged beer drinking leads people to experience a taste they enjoy, but precisely their enjoying the taste guarantees that it is not the taste they first experienced.

– Daniel Dennett, “Quining Qualia,” from Consciousness in Contemporary Science, 1988

A really cool concept video using album cover art.

Dunno who what BT Vision is exactly, but the quality of these renders are fantastic

It’s twisted and like a Lynch/Švankmajer crack baby, but I like it…

I’m gonna need to start coming up with better titles for all these posts. Anyhow, each links to a photographer’s gallery and clicking also dispenses candy from your optical disk dive.

Mikko Lagerstedt

Ludwig West

 Sam Jones