• Scenes of reading on the early portrait postcard
  Selfies and Insta before the computer, "textual exhibitionism" vs. "anti-theatrical" paintings, and more.
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• Scientists warn of an ‘unprecedented risk’ from synthetic ‘mirror life’...
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• Scrophularia landroveri
  The plant named after a Land Rover.
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• Seawards the Great Ships
  Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. First Scottish film to win an Oscar (Live Action Short, 1961).
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• Sign of the times?
  "Idaho: where a 13 year old is forced to carry out pregnancy but can’t go to the library"
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• Space Vehicle
  "A space vehicle [which] includes a platform under which is provided a thermonuclear fusion zone to which liquid fuel is supplied under pressure to be ignited by beams from lasers." -- Patent GB1310990 granted to British Railways Board, 1973.
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• Strange gods : Charles Fort’s 'Book of the Damned' (1919) [review]
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• Subterranea Britannica
  "We're fascinated by man-made and man-used underground places — from mines to railway tunnels, military defences to nuclear bunkers and everything in between."
  Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted to the study and investigation of man-made (including Nuclear Bunkers) and man-used underground places.
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• Symbols.com
  "Symbols.com is a unique online encyclopedia that encompasses comprehensive information on symbols, signs, flags, and glyphs — systematically organized into categories such as culture, country, religion, and others."
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• Sympathy for the Devil : Novel ways to sell your soul
  A short history of the public relations industry
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• The first global urban planning conference was mostly about manure
  "The problem was horses. And their copious poop."
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• The future of silk
  "Silk is stronger than steel or kevlar. We are already using it to transport vaccines without cold chains and make automatically dissolving stitches. What else could it be used for?"
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• The Kingpin of Fakers : Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Spectro-Chrome
  "…Ghadiali, who invented the Spectro-Chrome in 1920, claimed to be able to cure almost everything with its twelve colors […] 'Stop Insulin at once,' he advised diabetics, 'and irradiate yourself with Yellow Systemic alternated with Magenta [...] and eat plenty of Raw or Brown Sugar and all the Starches!!!.'"
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• The long, strange history of Teflon...
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• The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began
  "In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began."
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• The revolutionary concept of standard sizes only dates to the 1920s
  Ernst Neufert and 'Architects Data'.
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• The Value of the Public Domain
  "This paper calls for a re-orientation of innovation and information policy. In our current paradigm, monopoly rights, in the form of intellectual property, displace all else from our thinking on this subject making access a peripheral issue."
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• Thermonator : the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog
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• Visual sound : Mysteries of the human voice revealed by Megan Watts Hughes
  "From 1885, Megan began to visualise her voice. She created a scientific instrument, the eidophone, which she would sing into; it would capture an image of the sound using sand and powders."
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• What's the difference between real and perceived value?
  "Marketer Rory Sutherland says advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. He says perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider 'real' value."
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