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Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique  for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the...

Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes

Gamwell sees echoes of Mitchell’s dark stars, for instance, in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom,” particularly the evocative 1919 illustration...

Being Santa Claus is a year-round calling

Not just a seasonal gig Frankly, what’s most interesting about the paper isn’t those three fundamental categories, but the personalized glimpses it gives of the...

TV Technica: Our favorite shows of 2025

Editor’s note: Warning: Although we’ve done our best to avoid spoiling anything major, please note this list does include a few specific references to several...

Leaked Avengers: Doomsday teaser is now public

Downey Jr. might be playing a new role, but Marvel is really getting the band(s) back together on this one. The film takes place 14...

Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his...

Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree of ice

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Luwz1dzw-I&start=0&wmode=transparent Physicists at the University of Amsterdam came up with a really cool bit of Christmas decor: a miniature 3D-printed Christmas tree, a...

Stranger Things S5 trailer teases Vol. 2

https://youtube.com/watch?v=e0Eo0D038rQ&start=0&wmode=transparent We’re 10 days away from the next installment of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, and Netflix has released a...

Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985

The Company of Wolves Credit: ITC Entertainment Director Neil Jordan’s sumptuous Gothic fantasy...

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

Taylor thought there might be a way to put this new hypothesis to the test, particularly in light of numerous experimental studies showing the prevalence...

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