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Incredible Images from the ISS

Via Buzzfeed and Flickr: Please click on the links to see them large, in all their glory! These weren’t taken by a billion dollar satellite, just a guy and his Nikon. Turns out Dutch astronaut and physician Andre Kuipers, currently doing research on the International Space Station, is quite the interstellar shutterbug. The Richat Structure [ READ MORE ]

Fleeting Light Sculpture

Some really nice examples of light installation art. Via Colossal: Landscape Light Sculptures Artist Barry Underwood photographs wonderfully mysterious light installations that he installs on-site in forests, mountainsides, or near lakes and rivers. Via his artist statement: By reading the landscape and altering the vista through lights and photographic effects, I transform everyday scenes into [ READ MORE ]

Watch the Moon Age 4.5 Billion Years in 3 Minutes

Self-explanatory, and awesome. From Goddard Multimedia NASA The moon may seem barren and boring, but each of those craters has a story, the story of an awesome space collision. Over its 4.5 billion year life, the moon has had an awful lot of those, turning it into the pockmarked celestial body we know and love [ READ MORE ]

Nissan’s New Ship

I’m late to this news from Nissan, but thought it was strange and excellent. Nissan has taken the same innovative spirit and ingenuity that produced the Nissan LEAF™, the world’s first mass-produced 100% electric car, and built a cargo vessel christened “The City of St. Petersburg“. This 21,000 ton car-carrier can transport up to 2,000 [ READ MORE ]

100 Years of Universal

A pretty cool look back aty the last 100 years of Universal Pictures. Via Brand New: As part of their ongoing 100th anniversary celebration Universal Pictures has just premiered a new animated version of their famous globe logo. The new sequence has been created by digital effects powerhouse Weta (of Lord of the Rings fame) [ READ MORE ]

iPad (3)

Apple announced their third rendition of the iPad today, and this time it’s called simply iPad. Doing away with the 2, 3 monikers, Apple’s latest glass slab of computery wonderness is packed with a “retina” display, which they claim is the best computer screen you’ve ever used. Judging from the iPhone 4, I believe them. [ READ MORE ]

Bizarrely Excellent

The Geneva Auto Show just began, and Toyota’s new far-out concept car stands out from the crowd. Via DesignBoom: the ‘ft-bh’ concept hybrid by toyota has just been debuted at geneva motor show 2012, intended as an ultralight  B-segment family car that attains less than half the CO2 emissions of the efficient Toyota Yaris (achieveing [ READ MORE ]

FITC Amsterdam

Embarrassingly, I hadn’t even heard of FITC until I came upon this 2012 introductory video for FITC Amsterdam. And a pretty amazing video it is. Future Innovation Technology Creativity is a technology conference similar to SXSW’s Interactive, held all over the world. The conference in Amsterdam just ended, but there is an upcoming conference in [ READ MORE ]

The Story of Sushi

I was excited to see that this dramatic story of sushi-and the problems it causes for our oceans- was created for Bamboo Sushi right here in Portland. I eat there as often as I can, and it’s great to see them share their story with the world. As one of the world’s first ‘sustainable sushi [ READ MORE ]

Cool Ways to Hang and Showcase Your Bike

Bikes are amazing. Quiet, lightweight and fast, they are the real future of sustainable transportation. But for those of us who have our bikes crowding our small apartments, stacked alongside a wall, waiting for people to trip over them, they can sometimes get in the way. Luckily, a number of designers have tackled this problem. [ READ MORE ]

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