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The 10.000 year clock

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Danny Hillis, an inventor, computer engineer, and designer, Stewart Brand, a biologist, rock musician Brian Eno, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, are building a clock for the Long Now Foundation inside a mountain in western Texas.

It’s a special clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking. The father of the Clock is Danny Hillis. He’s been thinking about and working on the Clock since 1989. He wanted to build a Clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium.

The vision was, and still is, to build a clock that will keep time for the next 10,000 years. Humans are now technologically advanced enough that we can create not only extraordinary wonders but also civilization-scale problems. We’re likely to need more long-term thinking.

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Superpleisters

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Melbourne researchers have developed smart bandages that change colour to reveal the state of the wound beneath. Their invention could reduce the $500 million cost of chronic wound care in Australia. They’ve created a fabric that changes colour in response to temperature – showing changes of less than 0.5 of a degree.

When incorporated into a bandage it will allow nurses to quickly identify healing problems such as infection or interruptions to the blood supply, which are typically accompanied by a local increase or decrease in temperature. So far the team has created the fabric. Within six months they’ll have turned it into a bandage, and then they’ll work with industry to trial the new bandages.

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De mottenballenvloot

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For decades, dozens of forgotten Navy and merchant ships have been corroding in Suisun Bay, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. These historic vessels – the Mothball Fleet – served their country in four wars: WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm. After a decade of impasse, the ghost fleet is slowly dwindling as the ships are towed out one-by-one for scrapping.

Over a two-year period, Scott Haefner and some friends gained unprecedented access to the decaying ships, spending several days at a time photographing, documenting, and even sleeping aboard them – often in the luxury of the captain’s quarters.

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Zooming in and out of New York

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Madrid-based photographer Alfonso Zubiaga shows us what a living, breathing New York City looks like? Zubiaga takes us over its busy streets and through its most recognizable landmarks. By zooming in and out of everything from New York’s iconic skyscrapers to its trademark yellow taxi cabs, he takes us on a wild ride that makes us feel like we’re in the town where no one ever sleeps.

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Karakuri

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Karakuri ningyo are mechanized puppets or automata from Japan. Its roots can be traces back to the 17th century when skilled craftsmen created automata. Using nothing more than pulleys and weights they were able to make the Karakuri perform amazing tasks.

Today Hideki Higashino is one of the few remaining craftsmen who is determined to keep the history and tradition of Japanese Karakuri alive.

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Baaa

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Baaa is a bit of animated weirdness by Cyriak. Let’s call it experiments in ovine geometry.
Cyriak is Cyriak Harris, a British freelance animator.

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Zwemmen met Coelacanths

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Marjorie Courtinay-Latimer was the young curator of a natural history museum on South Africa’s east coast. Shortly before Christmas in 1938, local fishermen brought her a fish unlike any they’d ever seen. Caught at a depth of 240 feet, it was five feet long, covered in bony scales and had fins reminiscent of legs. It was a coelacanth. There was just one catch: Coelacanths were extinct, and had been for 70 million years.

In 1986, German explorer and then-freelance photographer Hans Fricke convinced a magazine editor to send him and a submarine to the Comoros Islands. Since then he’s led more than 400 dives, helping to produce much of what is now known about coelacanths.

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Pyramid-Exploring Robot Reveals Hidden Hieroglyphs

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The Great Pyramid of Giza has long been rumored to have hidden passageways leading to secret chambers. A robot explorer sent through the Great Pyramid has begun to unveil some of the secrets behind the 4,500-year-old pharaonic mausoleum as it transmitted the first images behind one of its mysterious doors.

The images revealed hieroglyphs written in red paint that have not been seen by human eyes since the construction of the pyramid. The pictures also unveiled new details about two puzzling copper pins embedded in one of the so called ‘secret doors.’

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