WARNING: You may want to eat that steak BEFORE reading this article!
Meat in a Petri Dish?
Why am I thinking of Solient Green? BON APPÉTIT.
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New math/art

Mathematics breathes new life into Escher's art

Munich's Incredible 3D Basketball Court

We have no idea how to describe that thing, so we’ll let Inges Idee do the honors:

A regulation-sized basketball court was erected on the grove-like forecourt of the school building of the occupational school. The court consists of a soft orange-red tartan covering and two normed baskets and seems to be forced over the grid of the lamps that have been set up. The playable court has been “morphed” as in a 3D program on a computer and looks like the grounds of a rollercoaster, with heights and depths and calm and dynamic zones. The resulting paradox, which moves between a normative set of rules and pleasurable, anarchic change, requires creative engagement for its use.

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Early Birds

Norway attacks: World reaction to bombing and shooting

World leaders and other key political figures give their reaction to twin attacks in Norway - a massive bomb blast in the capital Oslo, and a shooting attack on young people at a governing Labour Party youth camp..

In Pictures .Twin terror attacks shock Norway .

Oslo bomb: 'People were lying there bleeding'

Utoeya island eyewitness:

Oslo terror attacks: Suspected gunman in custody

Oslo terror attacks: Suspected gunman in custody
22 July 2011 Last updated at 20:54 GMT Help The suspect arrested on Utoeya island near Oslo after a gun attack on a youth camp, was wearing police clothes, spokesman for Oslo police Anders Frydenberg said.....