I love that this is still able to be seen. Thank you Tim Berners-Lee! And, for bonus points, here’s the actual proposal for the World Wide Web!

A University of Florida scientist has created a living “brain” of cultured rat cells that now controls an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator. Scientists say the research could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic devices and unmanned airplanes flown by living computers.

via: Discovery

Never thought you’d see this, did you?

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If you’re a marketer in awe of Steve Jobs, take heart. This long-lost sequel to Apple‘s epic “1984″ ad shows that even Jobs stumbled sometimes.

The clip above is an excerpt from an almost 9-minute film that the brand created for an international sales force meeting in Hawaii in 1984. Network World obtained the footage from Craig Elliott, an Apple employee at the time who is now CEO of Pertino Networks, a cloud-computing startup. (For the full version, see below.)

Recalling Apple’s battle with IBM, the film presents Jobs as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944, the year the Allies turned the table on the Nazis in Europe. “General, you and your brave fighting force have a rendezvous with destiny,” says Jobs, mimicking FDR’s clipped, patrician delivery. “Your battle will be long. It will be hard, but it will be won. I’m sure your victory will be great. Insanely great.”

The longer version digs deeper into the metaphor, showing a general rallying the troops against IBM’s dominance.

via: mashable

Look at this star turned into a fire dragon by a single point of nothingness with the mass of three million suns—its body twisted and deformed as a black beast 2.7 billion light-years away devours it with infinite hunger.

The synthetic image has been published in Nature along with photos directly taken by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Mount Haleakala in Hawaii. It was created from data collected in real time since 2009. The astronomers have been closely observing this event since the very beginning, which is quite exceptional: this is a rarely observed phenomenon that has only been detected once before.

In fact, according to the paper coauthor Ryan Chornock—of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics—”black holes, like sharks, suffer from a popular misconception that they are perpetual killing machines. Actually, they’re quiet for most of their lives. Occasionally a star wanders too close, and that’s when a feeding frenzy begins.”

Which is exactly what the images and the data show. Apparently, says Chornock, “this star barely survived one encounter with the black hole, only to meet its unfortunate end in round two.” As it sucked the star in, the supermassive blackhole—comparable in mass to the one in the center of our galaxy—also ejected gas at high speeds into space.

I want to see this close. Interstellar travel is not coming soon enough. [Smithsonian Science]

via: Gizmodo

Kickstarter celebrated its third birthday on Saturday. Three years is an exciting milestone (hooray!) but Kickstarter actually began long before. Read more here.

If you’re a fan of animation, be sure to check out the Living Lines Library. Great resource for animation art, pencil tests etc.

Developed by international ad agency I&S BBDO for the umino seaweed shop, ‘design nori’ is a series of intricately laser-cut seaweed for rolling sushi. each sheet of five designs– ‘sakura’ (‘cherry blossoms’), ‘mizutama’ (‘water drops’), ‘asanoha’ (‘hemp’), ‘kikkou’ (‘turtle shell’), and ‘kumikkou’ (‘tortoise shell’)– is based on an element of japanese history or symbology, meant to bring beauty, good fortune, growth, happiness, and longevity.

via: designboom

Ever think about a bathroom with a glass floor? Me neither.  This room is built on a 15 story elevator shaft.

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Daniel Clowes‘ comic books bypass any spandexed cliches associated with the graphic novel, narrating the tales of cynical anti-heroes and the bizarre small towns they find themselves in. With his clean illustration style, Clowes takes a cinematic approach to his work, switching between colors and styles to convey the mood shifts and plot twists. Though originally from Chicago, Clowes is a longtime Oakland resident who has become something of a regional figure. The Oakland Museum of California recently opened the new show “Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes,” a retrospective honoring Clowes’ vast body of work, from his first comic books in the late ’80s to his recent covers for the New Yorker.

From the best friend duo, Enid and Rebecca, from Ghost World, to Andy from his latest graphic novel The Death-Ray, Clowes’ characters test the bounds of social decorum. They take the reader into the uncomfortable back hallways of the mind, showing them the inappropriate sexual fantasies or irrational outbursts that comprise the ugly side of humankind. “Anything that makes me uncomfortable, that’s the direction I want to go in rather than avoid,” said Clowes at the preview of the exhibit. In “Modern Cartoonist,” we are able to see the evolution of this influential artist, author and thinker. Take a look at photos from the show by Ken Harman. — Nastia Voynovskaya

via: hifructose