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Stunning fantasy scenes by Guangjian Huang. Read the rest

A year after it was fully in place, President Obama’s health care law has largely succeeded in delivering on his main promises, even as it fell short in some ways.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School have genetically engineered stem cells to produce and secrete toxins which kill brain tumors, without killing normal cells or themselves. Though the work was performed on mice, researchers call it "the future of cancer treatment." Clinical trials could start within five years.

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Not so long ago we covered a miniature, ant-sized computer chip designed to be embedded in everyday stuff to make it smarter. Instead of a cumbersome battery in need of... read more

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This is literally my most favorite scene in any anime, ever.

theodp writes After an NPR podcast fingered the marketing of computers to boys as the culprit behind the declining percentages of women in undergraduate CS curricula since 1984 (a theory seconded by Smithsonian mag), some are concluding that NPR got the wrong guy. Calling 'When Women Stopped Coding' quite engaging, but long on Political Correctness and short on real evidence, UC Davis CS Prof Norm Matloff concedes a sexist element, but largely ascribes the gender lopsidedness to economics. "That women are more practical than men, and that the well-publicized drastic swings in the CS labor market are offputting to women more than men," writes Matloff, and "was confirmed by a 2008 survey in the Communications of the ACM" (related charts of U.S. unemployment rates and Federal R&D spending in the '80s). Looking at the raw numbers of female CS grads instead of percentages, suggests there wasn't a sudden and unexpected disappearance of a generation of women coders, but rather a dilution in their percentages as women's growth in undergrad CS ranks was far outpaced by men, including a boom around the time of the dot-com boom/bust.

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Slices, Drew Young

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Eerie, beautiful, captivating images of sea urchins mating and being born (that little triangle guy is a baby sea urchin).

These are a glimpse of how life begins in the deep ocean — and there’s a lot of life down there. The oceans provide about 190 times as much living space as every other space on Earth — soil, air and fresh water — put together. A vast array of amazing creatures live in the depths of this watery world. Squid, jellyfish, and plankton are just a few of our favorites (all shown as tiny babies in that last gif).

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I’m strongly urchin you to fall in love with echinoderms. Such superb sea symmetry.

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Happy Birthday to my dear friend elshiki!!!!!

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Takato Yamamoto

Look at what the Hex makes people do.

The sun is up, I’m so fizzy I could burst!

Halloween costumes

Not tonight

Fuck the future, Mathew Sawyer

Perhaps you’ve heard of Stitches, Florida’s upstart drug dealer cum rapper with the face tattoos like “Nightmare Before Christmas.”

If you’ve heard of Stitches, the one thing you know about him is that he loves cocaine. He loves using it, selling it, you name it. He’s not subtle about it. You might know this from the refrain of his song “Brick In Yo Face,” which is simply, “I love selling blow.” If you haven’t seen it, you should really take a quick look below. It’s mesmerizing.

Rest assured “Brick In Yo Face” was not a troll—he really does love cocaine. Last month Stitches sought to reassure fans at a show in Lake Worth, FL, that part of his act—giving out free cocaine to audience members—was not a ruse. Stitches tells the crowd, “I’ve seen some people on Instagram saying this shit’s fake,” before inviting four female audience members up on stage to do the drug with him.

The first woman in line gets her fix, but before the the whole episode can conclude Stitches’ wife shuts the show down. She can be heard off camera yelling, “I’m gonna fuck that bitch up.” Stitches looks startled and immediately tells fellow members of his group, “We’re done.” He then abruptly walks off stage and an audience member off camera can be heard asking, “What just happened?”

It’s nice to know Stitches has someone in his life at least attempting to keep him from stepping too far out of line. It’s also nice to know that, while drug dealing will likely continue to be more remunerative for Stitches than actually making music he does seem to have an absolutely rabid, if small fan base. The crowd drowns out Stitches to the words of his own songs, often carrying the tune after he’s dropped out of a verse. Live For Live Music also points out that some fans had paid as much as $60 for a meet-and-greet with Stitches. In an age when the most anticipated records are being given away for free, that’s the kind of entrepreneurial spirit artists need to thrive these days.

The real insanity starts at 19:45 below.

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7 Finger Robot

"The device, worn around one’s wrist, works essentially like two extra fingers adjacent to the pinky and thumb. The robot, which the researchers have dubbed "supernumerary robotic fingers," or "SR fingers," consists of actuators linked together to exert forces as strong as those of human fingers during a grasping motion."

Anarkitty, Recent Paintings.

Fantastic recent paintings from British artist Anarkitty (Previously on Supersonic).  You can see more of her new work below!

Anarkitty: Website

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STRAW IS NOT FOR KITTIES

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