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Cut, copy and paste ist die Kulturtechnik des 21. Jahrhunderts. Doch die Gema lebt in einer analogen Welt. Um sein Werk aus 70.200 Samples anzumelden braucht Johannes Kreidler einen Transporter voll Papier.
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These are strange times we live in. What with the newfangled iPhones and the running shoes kids like wearing these days, it feels like we are living in the future. But there are still so many things no one's bothered inventing. Futurama isn't just a great show. It's also a call to arms for you to invent me cool things I want. Here's a partial list of the things from Futurama I want you to invent for me for Christmas.
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Hyman Cordon, chemical student, of Boston, with a “man” he built out of rubber, glass, and other scraps. It eats food and digests it in human fashion, having heart, intestines, lungs, bladder, etc. It was exhibited at a recent “science fair.”
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This month, September 2018, marks the 20th anniversary of Google as a business – ever since in 1998, a Mr. Bechtolsheim signed a check for $100,000. We’ve come a long way since the happy days of the 10th anniversary, around a time when Google employees got together to mass-dance the sirtaki in Greece for a world record. People often ask, what was it that brought the Google as we knew it down? I think it wasn’t a single factor but many:
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Here is a day-by-day behind the scenes look at an episode of South Park called "Super Fun Time".
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Far below the Earth’s surface, where the sun rarely penetrates, is a world of twinkling glow worms, precious gems and limestone caves and mountains, a land inhabited by nature alone. Within this world are visions to rival many landscapes decorating our horizon; lakes lie still and calm, great networks of caves know no borders and rivers and rivulets carve an ever-evolving terrain.
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~1 billion kilometres per hour (99.9999991% the speed of light) = maximum proton speed around the ring.
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The New York edition of Pictoplasma was as successful as possible: great programme, fantastic speakers and performances and audience getting jaw-ache from constant grinning.
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In 1972, Robert Frank followed The Rolling Stones on their tour of North America and made a film called Cocksucker Blues. The title referenced a song written by the band as a fuck-you to their outgoing record label. The film was never released but bootleg copies exist…and a copy has inevitably found it's way onto YouTube in nine parts (93 minutes total).
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If you can’t get enough of Darth Vader and you have $18,000 burning in your pocket, this limited edition 4 feet tall and 150 lbs. heavy Darth Vader bronze statue by Lawrence Noble might be just what you’re looking for.
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We know the LHC won't end the world, but in an amusing note before its big switch-on tomorrow Stephen Hawking (he of the physics brain the size of a planet) has admitted he's got a $100 bet that the machine won't succeed in one of its big goals: finding the very mysterious Higgs boson.