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Apparently baby racing is a thing they do in Sacramento

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East Boston Bridge proposal from 1920s.

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Artist Joel Cooper uses an origami technique called tessellation to make ornate masks that are covered in intricate textures and patterns. Each mask is folded from a single sheet of paper (he’s posted a how-to on his blog). The tessellation technique can be used to create the illusion of a weaved pattern, as well as ridged corrugations and other repeating geometric patterns. Cooper’s masks are available for purchase.

photos via Joel Cooper

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As an experiential designer, Nelly Ben-Hayoun's work has taken her to Stanford's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where she collided atoms, Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome where she climbed into a Soyuz rocket capsule, Super Kamiokande in Japan where neutrinos collide "to form SONIC BOOOOUM!"—in Ben-Hayoun's own words—and the wastelands of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where she got the inspiration to put together an orchestra made up of astronauts. Her work is about sharing knowledge through experience and crossing disciplinary boundaries while she does it—which is why filesharing site WeTransfer has just brought her aboard to give the service's digital content a more "physical experience."

"For me, it is like we are building a new astronaut 'corp'—a community of users that want to create and explore new things," Ben-Hayoun tells Wired.co.uk. Understandably, she's a bit astronaut-obsessed right now.

Matthew Linton, ISO cello Player in NASA Ames Rescue Site.

Nelly Ben-Hayoun

In between training to become an astronaut three times a week in London (she says she's on track, notwithstanding any Christmas cakes over the holiday season) and creating a "counterculture" at NASA with the hugely successful International Space Orchestra (following the performance of Ground Control: an Opera in Space, co-composed by Damon Albarn and others, the music was launched into Earth's orbit on two Ardusats), she is building multidisciplinary experiences with scientists at the Seti Institute to teach the public about its alien hunting work and building emergency scenarios with her Disaster Playground project.

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Saturn V

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Eileen Collins, the very first female pilot of a space shuttle.

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We previously posted a cool Super Mario Cat Complex Etsy user CatastrophiCreations put together. It was a subdued piece that worked a little nerdy fun into your home decor. Redditor collinferal took inspiration from that creation and decided to go a more traditional route when building one for his friends’ cats. Take a look at how it was done.

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Reindeer racing is popular in Norway, Finland, and Russia, where tongue-lolling reindeer pull sleds or skiers over the snow in the highly competitive contests of subarctic speed. The photo above was captured by Ronel Reyes at the Sami Festival in Tromsø, Norway back in February. Read more about the sport in this fantastic feature from Atlas Obscura.

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I’m 45 years old and my short-term memory, which used to be very good, is now average, so I take notes frequently as I work. I take notes at the very second I think of them, because if I wait even a few seconds they’re gone.

I’d use Vesper for these notes, but I’m working on Vesper. It may be paused in the debugger or in some other state where I can’t use it to take a note. While I can and do use Vesper for everything else, I can’t use it to work on itself.

So I do what I’ve done for many years: I take notes — in cursive, because it’s fastest — on 5" x 8" legal pads. I got some new pads for Christmas, my favorite kind with the hard back. Not flimsy.

I don’t save these notebooks once full, since they’re really just aids to my short-term memory. The notes aren’t worth anything later on, so I recycle them. I even tear out pages as I go. (Yes, it’s a single-user Snapchat but for words.)

This sounds terribly low-tech, but there’s a part I like about it: it connects me to the programmer — the boy — I was 30 years ago, who sat in front of his Apple II Plus with a three-ring binder full of notes and hand-written code. It didn’t seem at all weird then to mix digital and analog, and it does seem a little weird, at least to me, these days. But I seem to find excuses.

Similarly, for a while I thought I’d buy electronic books only, with the exception that I’d buy physical copies of classics and books I want to keep. But then I remembered I can give to Goodwill genre fiction that I don’t want to keep. So why not buy physical copies of those too?

Reading books has given me so much joy in life, and reading electronic books just isn’t the same joy: it breaks the thread to all the decades of past-mes with a book in my hand. It breaks the thread to all the great readers, living and gone, in my family.

So I do read electronic books, but I prefer real books. A library has a romance that a hard drive will never have.

(Lest you think this is Luddism, I’ll remind you that I write, and use like crazy, note-taking software that runs on iPhones. And I’ve written blogging and RSS-reading apps. But I feel steadier with one foot planted in the past and one planted in the future.)

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The Big Fat Quiz of the Year discussing the fact that Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ is the biggest selling song of 2013 in the UK

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On Friday, District Judge William Pauley of the Southern District of New York ruled that the National Security Agency’s mass collection of phone records is lawful. The case, which was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, was dismissed as the judge ruled that Fourth Amendment protections do not extend to records held by third parties, like telecom companies.

Judge Pauley’s opinion, which began by broadly invoking the events of September 11, 2001, contrasts with the opinion of a DC-based district judge, who ruled earlier this month that the widespread NSA surveillance revealed in June by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was unconstitutional due to its broad reach. The difference of opinion between the two lower courts make it somewhat more likely that the issue will eventually advance to the Supreme Court, notes the New York Times.

In denying the ACLU a preliminary injunction against the NSA’s data collection and granting the government a dismissal of the case, Judge Pauley used two lines of reasoning. First, he wrote that the ACLU had no standing to argue its case against the government in that court, and second, he wrote that the government is within its rights to collect information about people that is held by third parties. As Pauley wrote :

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