https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeCpHoy9EQYou may know Charlie Brooker only through his amazing Black Mirror programs, but savvy Brookerfen are avid viewers of his Screenwipe/Newswipe shows -- acerbic, potty-mouthed media criticism shows that feature talents of Barry Shitpeas and Philomena Cunk, a thick-skulled, oblivious, amazing deadpan comedic persona of Diane Morgan. (more…)

Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous) (previously) writes, "Happy Valentines Day! If your readers are looking for a last-minute gift idea for their significant others, they may want to check out my new pie tutorial. It's a Queen of Hearts cherry pie baked in a heart shaped cake pan."

From Spanish-style adobe to Art Deco to Googie to Midcentury Modern to new experimental forms, Los Angeles is one of the most eclectic cities for architecture. Los Angeles Magazine curated this great list of 100 architectural gems worthy of a visit. (more…)

After going down a rabbit hole of watching snakes drinking water, I can say this is the best one: a two-headed albino snake, with one head fighting with the other on getting some water. NEED SNEK DRINX PLS BRO. (more…)

What is a preservationist to do when someone drops off a plastic grocery bag full of 30-year-old cassettes created by some of San Francisco's most influential DJs? Digitize them, of course. (more…)

Just when I think I have seen it all on Amazon, I am reminded that no, I have not.Today I learned that you can buy a type of chocolate gift box called 'Edible Anus.'Yup. (more…)

Recording artist Moby says he talked to friends who work in Washington DC and revealed to him five pieces of secret information about the Trump administration. (more…)

I go through about one deck of playing cards a week. That's how long it takes for the cards to get dirty and bent from frequent handling (I spend a couple of hours a day practicing sleights during phone calls, watching TV, during meals, waiting in line, hiking, and so on). It feels extravagant to replace a deck every week, but it's actually an inexpensive habit. I buy decks by the dozen on Amazon. Right now a 12-pack of Bikes sells for $15.49. I wish I could subscribe to them. You get 6 red backs and 6 blue backs. Jason likes blue back cards, and I like red back. (Hey, Jason - I'll save the blue ones for you if you save the red ones for me.)If you want something to do with the cards, let me gently steer you in the direction of my book, Trick Decks:https://youtu.be/GBQtvELBFEk

As Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence was significantly to the right of the mainstream, even for his own party -- so it's no surprise that in the days after his resignation (to become vice president of the USA), his successor and state Republican lawmakers: pardoned an innocent man who'd been locked up for 20 years (whom Mike Pence refused to help); allowed a town to declare a state of emergency; greenlit a needle-exchange; and overrode his vetoes, which would have allowed university cops to keep their records secret and which prevented strict environmental rules. (more…)

Bryan Ropar of World of Science and Engineering says, "Well, that is by far one of the stupidest things I've ever done on my life."

Never be caught unawares by a shark again with the Global Shark Tracker. There are apps for mobile platforms, but it doesn't work very well on a small display. Always go with a bigger boat.In a collaborative environment established by Founding Chairman and Expedition Leader Chris Fischer, OCEARCH shares real-time data through OCEARCH’s Global Shark Tracker, inspires current and future generations of explorers, scientists, and stewards of the ocean, and enables leading researchers and institutions to generate previously unattainable data. OCEARCH has completed 26 worldwide expeditions.In 2015, OCEARCH open sourced the data on the Global Shark Tracker to 2.3 million users, achieved an annual global reach of more than 12.2 billion media impressions, a Facebook reach of 150 million impressions, and a Twitter reach of 36 million impressions.OCEARCH expeditions and digital outreach platforms are enabled through the support of Costa Sunglasses, YETI, Yamaha, Contender, SAFE Boats, and oneQube.You can follow the OCEARCH tagged sharks by accessing the near-real time, free online Global Shark Tracker, by downloading the Global Shark Tracker App available for Apple and Android platforms, or by following OCEARCH on all social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.As fascinating as the map is, its creators are described as unscientific Jacques Cousteau wannabes whose methods of tagging sharks are held in some disrepute.“Shark Wranglers” is the same crew (minus Dr. Michael Domeier) formerly featured on the show “Shark Men” on the National Geographic Channel, which itself used to be called “Expedition: Great White.” These guys specialize in a unique, possibly unnecessarily-invasive procedure to catch and tag large sharks. Their methods involve hooking the sharks and attaching buoys until the animal tires, at which point it is lead up to a movable platform on the side of the boat, raised out of the water, and has a satellite tag bolted to its dorsal fin. These methods have been controversial, and it doesn’t help that the Shark Wranglers are developing a reputation for being bad guests.The first major controversy involving the then-Shark Men was the apparent foul-hooking and mutilation of the white shark “Junior” off the Farallones. This proved to be unrelated, but still nearly cost the team their permit to work in the marine preserve. Then this spring, a bodyboarder was killed by a shark attack not far from where the Shark Wranglers had been working in South Africa. Again, officially no direct responsibility was found, but two possible incidents in two years is impossible to ignore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xecEV4dSAXEJohn Oliver's new season kicked off with a spectacular episode on a dismal subject: whether or not there is such a thing as truth, why Donald Trump seems so poorly acquainted with it, and how it is that so many people have been dragged into the unfactual universe with him. (more…)

The only thing at Hypernom.com appears to be a 3D fractal cage. You can move toward the edge with the WASD and arrow keys. But as you approach it, a new level of detail pops in and you seem no closer to the perimeter. Approached as a game, there is a "trick" to escaping—but I'm not sure you're supposed to. Press numbers to change the forms that bind you. There are all sorts of things going on like this.

Last year, I had the pleasure of exploring “the Frozen City” of Felstad, aka Frostgrave, the ridiculously fun, retro-friendly fantasy miniatures game from Osprey. Designer Joseph McCullogh and Osprey have followed up the highly-successful Frostgrave book with a series of excellent supplements. The latest of these is Forgotten Pacts.Frostgrave is a very psycho-geographical game, where the ancient, ruined and magic-saturated city of Felstad is really a central character in the game. One of the things each follow-up book does is shine a light in some new corner of that dark and ruined city. And with that light is also illuminated new stories of the city’s past, new wizard and warband types, new magic, treasures to unearth, and new monstrous adversaries.Forgotten Pacts accomplishes two goals in advancing the game and setting of Frostgrave. It introduces a new region, the northern reaches of Felstad, and the barbarian tribesmen who have moved down from the hills to plunder and explore there. The book also introduces a new magical discipline for courageous wizards to attempt: demonic summoning using pacts. This region of the city is where demon summoning was de rigor during the city’s heyday and the barbarians have re-rediscovered the lost art of summoning among the temple ruins and incorporated the practice into their way of life. Venturing into this region, the players’ wizards get the opportunity to find a demon’s True Name (basically an unpronounceable name rendered as a sigil) among the ruins, and with that name, attempt to conjure and forge a pact with the demon. These demons can grant all sorts of fabulous advantages to wizards who successfully bind them, but they come at a cost. Players must choose sacrifices that have to be made to the demon for as long as the pact remains between wizard and “extra-planar entity.”Forgotten Pacts is done in the same style as the Frostgrave rulebook and features more stunning full-page fantasy art by Frostgrave court artist, Dmitry Burmak. The book includes background on the northern region, the barbarian tribes, their magical practices (including a type of demonic tattooing, called Mystic Branding, which grants the wearer certain favors), summoning spells, sacrifices and “boons,” demonic attribute tables (for creating more diverse and colorful entities), and advanced summoning rules for between-game demon dealing. There are also new soldier types, new treasures, and new beasties (including those pesky barbarians). A series of scenarios, some linked, allow you to explore the northern reaches, search for demonic sigils, and battle barbarian hordes.As with the main book and previous supplements, Osprey has teamed up with North Star Military Miniatures to create a companion line of plastic and metal miniatures for the new book and region. The boxed set of multi-part barbarian minis are compatible with all of the previous boxed sets, giving Frostgrave modelers a staggering amount of variety in how they can customize their wizard’s warbands and the city’s dark adversaries.See sample pages from this book at Wink.Frostgrave: Forgotten Pactsby Joseph A. McCullough, Dmitry Burmak (Illustrator)Osprey Games2016, 64 pages, 7.6 x 0.2 x 9.6 inches, Paperback$13 Buy on Amazon

The current pre-clearance rules for Canadians being processed through US immigration at Canadian airports limit the powers of US immigration officials, preventing them from strip-searching Canadians (they can ask Canadian border guards to do it, but if the Canadian guards refuse, they're out of luck) and giving Canadians the ability to turn around and leave the immigration area, returning to Canada, if they don't like the way they're being treated by the US guards. (more…)

The combination of 2014's Supreme Court decision in Riley (which held that the data on your devices was subject to suspicionless border-searches, and suggested that you simply not bring any data you don't want stored and shared by US government agencies with you when you cross the border) and Trump's announcement that people entering the USA will be required to give border officers their social media passwords means that a wealth of sensitive data on our devices and in the cloud is now liable to search and retention when we cross into the USA. (more…)

[caption id="attachment_509018" align="alignright" width="300"] April '67 issue[/caption]This issue of Worlds of IF, Science Fiction, commonly just referred to as IF Magazine has a peculiar cover. The white space almost makes this look like a reprint of some kind, however, it isn't. This is how they chose to deliver this one issue. Most issues during the 60's have a simple white band across the top, with full width art. I haven't been able to find any explanation as to why this cover has peculiar use of the white space. Here is an image of a typical cover from the 60's for comparison.IF Magazine has a tendency to list only the last name of their illustrators. This can cause quite a bit of confusion if you're researching. For example, the cover for this issue is simply labelled as McKenna. As it turns out, that is Richard McKenna. That same year another Richard McKenna, the author Richard (M) McKenna, illustrated one of his own stories: When the Stars Answer, in another publication. This is confusing!Virgil Finlay is an easy one to sort out, but what about Nodel? Is that Norman Nodel the comic book artist? I don't see this publication listed anywhere in his works, and I did manage to find one of his signatures somewhere and it doesn't quite match up to the ones in the illustrations below. Then again, that N does look quite similar. I have no idea.Publication: Worlds of IF Science FictionIssue: January 1964, Volume 13, Number 6cover: McKenna[caption id="attachment_508396" align="aligncenter" width="600"] by Nodel for The Competitors[/caption][caption id="attachment_508398" align="aligncenter" width="600"] by Finlay for Waterspider[/caption]Every time I look at this one, my mind immediately sees Atlas, holding the earth on his shoulders. It takes a moment for me to register that the scenario is nothing like that.[caption id="attachment_508397" align="aligncenter" width="600"] by Nodel for The Competitors[/caption][caption id="attachment_508399" align="aligncenter" width="600"] by Finlay for Waterspider[/caption]This looks like a scene right out of Men in Black. I love these illustrations where the artist gets to go wild thinking of creatures. I can just imagine how much fun that would be. Here's an advertisement that is a true sign of the times. Custom book plates to place on the inside cover of your prized possessions. This way when someone borrows it, they won't forget who owns it. I stumbled for a moment on BEM. For those of you who aren't aware, those are "Bug Eyed Monsters". Most advertisements don't typically acknowledge the illustrators, however, you can see the names listed here clearly. Inside this issue, I saw something that was pretty neat. Here is an advertisement for a free copy of The Unpublished Facts of Life. These are the teachings of the Rosicrucians, which are a world-wide order of mysics. They're still around and you can learn more about them in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOCdFDXe5jQ [caption id="attachment_508402" align="aligncenter" width="600"] by McKenna for Three Worlds To Conquer[/caption][caption id="attachment_508403" align="aligncenter" width="600"] by McKenna for Three Worlds To Conquer[/caption][caption id="attachment_508404" align="aligncenter" width="300"] by McKenna for Three Worlds To Conquer[/caption][caption id="attachment_508405" align="aligncenter" width="300"] by McKenna for Three Worlds To Conquer[/caption][caption id="attachment_508406" align="aligncenter" width="600"] by Morrow for Mack[/caption]This was the tear-out from the middle of the issue. You would fill our your subscription and use this envelope to mail it in, to renew your account. I just thought that the little Santa in the UFO was delightful, and thought you might enjoy it.

Senator Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald) (sen.joey.hensley@capitol.tn.gov/(615) 741-3100) and Rep Terry Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster) ((615) 741-2192) have introduced legislation to amend TCA 68-3-306 (which "provides for the child to be considered the legitimate child of a husband and wife if the child is born through artificial insemination and with the consent of the husband") with a bill would make such children "illegitimate."

In a new analysis of the World Income Database published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Thomas Piketty and colleagues from the Paris School of Economics and UC Berkeley, describe a "collapse" of the share of US national wealth claimed by the bottom 50% of the country -- down to 12% from 20% in 1978 -- along with an (unsurprising) drop in income for the poorest half of America. (more…)

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Something Awful has a guest column from one of the manosphere types netizens cannot fail to be familiar with in 2017.DEBATE ME.That's right. I've been powering up these logical brain lasers for hours now just to tear through your fallacies like so much tissue paper. Let me set the stage: my house, seven hours, a webcam, and you and me, duking it out with truth-fists. A jury of my choosing, made up of my peers. The loser gives $10,000 to whatever charity deals with the most tragic of cancers.

I've been enjoying newsletters more than ever. This old-school form of communication has made a comeback, probably in response to the way Facebook controls the content you see. With a newsletter, there's no middleman filtering out the content.A relatively new newsletter publishing service called Revue has launched a directory of its favorite newsletters. The newsletters they have selected are not necessarily published using Revue, which is a good move on their part. I'm happy they have included my own newsletter, Recomendo (a weekly newsletter that gives you 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff).Here are some newsletters I really like: Quartz Daily Brief, 5-bullet Friday, The Intercept, WTF Just Happened Today?, Tofugu Thursday, and The Journal.What newsletters do you subscribe to that you are excited to see appear in your email inbox?

Update, 330pm PT: Aaaaand it looks like the White House just issued statements that reverse everything they said a half hour ago. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/830193317535170561https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/830197118488936448Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump lost his #MuslimBan appeal in court and subsequently tweeted 'SEE YOU IN COURT!' to the courts, he flip-flopped. Like he does. (more…)

Jason Chaffetz is a Republican lawmaker who led the Benghazi and Clinton email witch-hunts in his capacity on the Congressional Oversight Committee; when he returned to Utah for a town hall meeting, he was met by thousands of angry constituents who chanted "do your job" and called on him to investigate Trump's many irregularities, from foreign interference with the election results to his refusal to release his tax returns to his many conflicts of interest. (more…)

Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for a 1,000-mile-long wall on the US-Mexican border. The order allows for six months to survey all 1,000 miles before the groundbreaking. (more…)

Central Michigan University's College Republicans threw a Valentines event where attendees got gift bags prepared by the university's young, upstanding Republicans, including this one, bearing a likeness of Adolf Hitler and the message, "my love 4 u burns like 6,000 jews." (more…)

After trying several brands of anti-slip rug tape, I can assertively report that the Roberts brand Rug Gripper Slip Tape is the only one that was any good. (more…)

Trumpism is nothing new, as University of Michigan's digitized sets of historical political posters show. Many are in the public domain, including my fave announcing the 1918 "Grand Picnic and Re-Union of All the Radicals of the City of Chicago." (more…)

Love the guy in his bed reading a tablet while everything in his cabin is sliding all over. On a side note, I hope he has control over the video camera in his cabin, otherwise, he has zero privacy.

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Here's a live feed of Kone elevators around the world having an English language conversation with a computer system that analyzes the elevators' reports about their temperature, ride time, landing accuracy, vibration, etc. I can't wait for the graphic novel adaptation.

Jim from the UK Open Rights Group writes, "Why has the UK's Digital Economy Bill been drafted to criminalise file sharing and minor online copyright infringements? The government said they just wanted to bring online infringement into line with 'real world' fake DVD offences. However, that isn't how they offence is drawn up: and the government has now been told in Parliament twice that they are both criminalising minor infringements and helping copyright trolls." (more…)

FutureDeluxe created this gorgeous series of procedural animations, physical light, and projection based experiments, all of which is shot in camera. It feels like a dose of mushrooms that only lasts one minute. (more…)

On at least three occasions this week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer referenced a nonexistent Islamic terrorist attack on Atlanta. (more…)

There are lies, damn lies (AKA Trump statements) and tabloid news."Michael Jackson exhumed!" screams this week's 'Globe.' Inside, a two-page spread sits under the headline: "Jackson crypt opened for new autopsy!"Lies, plain and simple, as the 'Globe' article itself attests, if one bothers to read it. The gloved one's daughter Paris recently told 'Rolling Stone' magazine that she thought her father may have been murdered, which supposedly prompted the 'Globe' to initiate an "exhaustive investigation." This amounts to asking a bunch of rent-a-quote "experts" if Jackson could have been murdered. Their conclusion: "Michael Jackson's body must be exhumed for a new autopsy."In other words, there's nothing new to the story, and Jackson's body is still six feet under.Prince Charles' wife is the target of the 'Globe' cover headline: "Alcoholic Camilla Thrown Into Rehab!" Seasoned tabloid readers will fondly remember the 'Globe' cover of November 25, 2013, with the headline: "Queen Orders Drunken Camilla Into Detox!" Both stories rely on the Royal Family's reluctance to sue for libel, and seem to be based on nothing coming close to resembling a fact. Of course, the latest 'Globe' report doesn't suggest that Camilla is in an actual rehab clinic, but "has been confined to her quarters in Highgrove House."Which was easily disproved when Camilla was seen with Prince Charles on February 8 happily mingling with crowds as they visited an art show in the British town of Hull, and appeared earlier this week at a charity dinner in London. Or maybe it was one of those 24-hour rehabs?Kim and Khloe Kardashian have had "Matching Butt Reduction Surgeries" according to the 'National Enquirer.' Or maybe they both just lost weight and wore a different style of Spanx? Which seems more likely?Maintaining its role as Donald Trump's leading political mouthpiece, the 'Enquirer' devotes a two-page spread to "Obama's Back Room Plot To Impeach Trump!" Branding Obama a "treasonous puppet master," the story describes how the former president "is pulling the strings on a coordinated conspiracy across multiple federal agencies to sabotage the Trump administration." That's the claim of an unnamed "left-leaning whistle-blower." Can't argue with a source as impeccable as that.It's the same dedication to journalistic integrity that allows the 'Enquirer' to report that George Clooney has confessed: "I Knocked Up Amal!" Following an earlier report that the actor's wife is expecting, Clooney was allegedly asked: "When's the baby due?" In response, Clooney reportedly "grinned from ear to ear and all but confirmed our report with a proverbial, and sly, wink and a nod." Well, that settles it then. Clooney couldn't have been clearer if he'd written the 'Enquirer' headline himself.'Us' magazine also goes political this week, with a cover story on Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner, "under pressure" and "feeling the strain." What's stressing their marriage so severely? According to 'Us,' Ivanka was mocked by the interwebs for posting an Instagram photo of herself in a metallic Caroline Herrera gown the day after her father signed his Muslim travel ban, and Nordstrom announced that it would no longer carry her fashion brand. If that's what counts as "under pressure" these days, Ivanka and her family are in for a bumpy ride.Fortunately we have 'Us' magazine's renown team of crack investigative reporters to tell us that Hailey Baldwin wore it best, actress Anika Noni Rose carries Neosporin, hand cream and spectacles in her Roots tote, and that the stars are just like us: they buy flowers, grocery shop, sunbathe, and love a good game of curling. Wait, what? How is competing at curling "just like us," unless we live in frozen northern climes?'People' magazine, which devotes numerous issues a year to diets and weight loss, and features annual lists of the tanned-and-toned "most beautiful" and "sexiest" stars, devotes this week's cover to the ample-bodied star of TV's 'This Is Us,' Chrissy Metz, declaring: "I'm Proud of Who I Am." As a woman of size "embracing her body" it's a refreshing change from the magazine's normally relentless fat-shaming celebration of hard-bodied celebrities. Then again, Metz tells the mag: "I want to have a fit, healthy body and not have to be put in a box." Which of course is exactly where 'People' magazine puts her every other week of the year.Onwards and downwards . . .

Clair writes, "In light of all the coverage of Trump Valentines, I wanted to share a kickass content piece I helped create that is a feminist alternative. With the Women's Marches and Trump's complete disregard for the American people--especially women--it's important to share positive, pro-female content too!" (more…)

Blue Emu's Maximum Arthritis cream contains Trolamine Salicylate in addition to Emu oil, adding science to woo and offering some real relief from minor aches and pains. Carpal tunnel syndrome. My hands started hurting in the first Dotcom boom. By Web 2.0 I was running on trackballs and ibuprofen. Now that we live in the Bro-pocalyptic era of internet development, my hands are a complete waste. This Blue Emu Maximum Arthritis helps me keep typing all day long. Trolamine Salicylate is well understood to reduce inflammation when applied topically. Rub it in and 15-30 minutes later you'll notice the aches have become more dull. I put it on pre-emtively, as studies have shown athletes benefit from this, and it allows them to have more productive workouts, reducing recovery times. There is a lot of difficult to believe, but you want to, lore about Emu Oil and how it works with human skin. It certainly doesn't seem to get in the way of anything. There is supposedly aloe vera in this as well...Works well on my hands. Has helped with some sprains as well, and on a sore neck.Blue Emu Maximum Arthritis Pain Relief Cream, 3 Ounce via Amazon

In 2013, the TSA blew $1B on "behavioral detection," which would allegedly train agents to spot potential terrorists by looking for a hilariously stupid list of "tells" including "a bobbing adam's apple," "arriving late," "trembling," "yawning," "excessive throat clearing," "improper attire," "gazing down," and "wide open staring eyes," Also: "being in disguise." (more…)

A group of security researchers from academe and industry (including perennial Boing Boing favorite J Alex Halderman) have published an important paper documenting the prevalence and problems of firewalls that break secure web sessions in order to scan their contents for undesirable and malicious content. (more…)

US Customs and Border Protection officers in Pharr, Texas found two tons of marijuana packed inside key limes on a truck near the Texas-Mexico border. According to CNN, "over 34,000 of the fake fruit packages were discovered by an imaging inspection system and narcotics K-9 team."Last year, carrots were the mule of choice in the area.

Duqu 2.0 is a strain of clever, nearly undetectable malware, derived from Stuxnet, that stays resident in its hosts' memory without ever writing persistent files to the system's drives. (more…)

@hateshaliek: "i started singing 'chemtrails' in the tune to the ducktales theme a half hour ago so i just had to make this real quick:"https://twitter.com/hateshaliek/status/829097929080123392

While I enjoyed the first few seasons of the new Battlestar Galactica, nothing in it compares with the first run's 2-part story arc "The Living Legend" about Commander Cain, played by Lloyd Bridges. Cain and the super cool Battlestar Pegasus have miraculously survived the destruction of the "Fifth Fleet," during the surprise Cylon attack. These badasses have been harrying the robots ever since. Unburdened by the responsibilities of keeping a rag-tag fleet of survivors safe, Cain and his crew are far more bloodthirsty, and out for revenge! Upon running into their old comrades-in-arms the Galactica, Cain and Pegasus have a hard time fitting into the new human society. These 2 episodes were just wonderful. The side story of other survivors really expanded the Galactica universe for me, and Lloyd Bridges was such a contrast to Adama!Today the Youtubes decided I needed to see these 12 minutes of deleted scenes. I am glad they did.RIP Richard Hatch.

Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale, published in 1985, is a dystopian novel that imagines the United States ruled by a conservative Christian theocracy. It's currently the best-selling book on Amazon, knocking George Orwell's 1984 to the third spot.From Washington Post:

Paul Di Filippo has written a masterful, lively history of the many ways in which science fiction has explored the collapse of the American project, from JA Mitchell's 1889 The Last American to contemporary novels like Too Like the Lightning, Liberation, DMZ and Counting Heads. (more…)

Who doesn’t like a Chinese steamed bun? I love it. It’s also called a “bao” and its soft doughy exterior often contains roast pork. All you want to know here.Who doesn’t like Flan? I love it. You know the stuff—an eggy, silky smooth type of custard with a drizzling layer of caramel on top. Learn to make it.Smash them together and what do you get? Only in Japan will you get a steamed bun with flan inside for a buck.I say double yum.Via Rocket News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCON4zfMzjUHyperloop One engineers demonstrate the power of maglev using spinning arrays atop a copper plate. Despite weighing over 100 pounds, the gadget floats and could hold considerably more weight. (more…)

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