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May 30 2014

Your New Source for Women in Tubes

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As a grad student, it’s inevitable I’ll fall behind on the latest news. But I don’t know how I missed this one…

Fellow Macbot and talented illustrator Mike Clelland has started a blog inspired by Mac that is a spectacular image collection of women in tubes. I just found it through this post from io9 which is already over a year old, so I’m painfully behind in mentioning it. Le sigh. But if you need a women-in-tubes fix, head on over to Tubular Women!

Thanks for keeping the tradition alive, Mike!

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Jan 17 2014

4000 Year Old Ancient Erotica

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Museums are often misconstrued as dusty and lifeless — the least likely place to find something hot and steamy. But the Ancient Near East section in The Israel Museum’s Archaeology Wing features rare erotic art from the land between the rivers (Tigris and Euphrates), which predates India’s Kama Sutra by over 1,500 years.

Jan 10 2014

World’s Largest Bat Colony

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The Bracken Bat Cave, located in southern Comal County, Texas, outside the city of San Antonio, is the summer home to the largest colony of bats in the world. Each year during summer, an estimated 20 million Mexican Free-tailed bats migrate from Mexico to Texas to give birth and raise their pups. While these bats take refuge all across the state, the largest congregation takes place at Bracken Cave.

Jan 10 2014

Scrap Metal Animal Sculptures

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French artist Edouard Martinet creates stunning sculptures of insects, reptiles, fishes and birds from pieces of scrap metal and rubbish collected from flea markets and car boot sales. Martinet doesn’t weld the metals together, choosing instead to use small screws, and spends about a month on each sculpture, often working on two or three pieces at the same time. Some pieces can take years; the most recent one took him seventeen years while he was searching for the one final perfect component.