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This Classical Venetian Palazzo Is Like A Chill Portal To The Afterlife
If Hollywood has taught us anything about death on Earth — and goodness knows it has — it’s that we’ll be welcomed to the afterlife by an eye-squintingly bright white void. For his latest site-specific exhibition, artist Doug Wheeler has transformed the classical architecture of Palazzo Grassi building in Venice into what looks like a…
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This Amazing Starry Sky Is A Cave Full Of Glowworms In New Zealand
Photo: NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features an amazing photo by Phill Round. It looks like a frame from a Spielberg movie — an humanoid figure appearing at the base of a mountain, with the unknown starry sky of an alien world behind it. In reality, it’s a man getting into New Zealand’s Hollow…
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Top Engineer And Futurist: Tomorrow’s Robots Might Mercy-Kill Mankind
Nell Watson is an engineer, a futurist, and the founder and CEO of Poikos. As such, she knows a lot about the machines we use today, and the ones we’re planning for tomorrow. And she’s worried that the artificial intelligence of the near-future might decide the most benevolent thing to for mankind is to destroy…
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How Pabst Brought A 136-Year-Old Beer Back From The Dead
Once upon a time there was a beer. A beer with bold flavour and character. A beer that was supposedly America’s first IPA. But then the 1970s happened. The tastes of the masses changed, and not for the better. A tidal wave of flavourless lager rushed in. And this unique, legendary beer was washed away…