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One Of The Greatest Beatboxing Videos You’ll Ever See – Eklips
I’ll just say from the outset that I’m a passing hip-hop fan, and understand only a little about how beatboxing incorporates into hip-hop. So maybe it’s just me, but until this video started I was unaware that the human voice was even able to make some of these sounds. French beatboxer Eklips doesn’t just stop with mimicking drum and bass though, as he’s got a truly impressive ability to imitate both human and instrumental sounds (Seriously, horns? The guy just throws out trumpets like it’s nothing…) and even simulates postproduction studio effects at some points.
Male deep-sea squid seeks mate of either sex for fun in the dark
Photograph: MBARI
Remote-controlled subs lift the lid on the indiscriminate sex life of deep-sea squid
Self-inflating bicycle tires! Hurray! Another design-based business in search of funding! Boo! As Inhabitat reports, PumpTire is a cool idea in search of a way to find its audience. (They’re currently looking for $250,000 in funding via Kickstarter.)
(via Stowe Boyd.)
Data Cake – a brilliant visual metaphor for data visualization and the relationship between information and insight. Related, 7 fantastic books on the art of translating data into information and insight.
Data cake is here to make you feel hungry
Never-before-seen photos of The Beatles in 1964 – a fine addition to The Lost Beatles Photographs from the Bob Bonis archive and Linda McCartney’s tender portraits in A Life in Photographs.
What is the Internet doing to our brains? Dr. Paul Howard Jones distills 178 scientific studies to examine whether there’s any merit to the popular fears about what technology is doing to us. More in these 7 essential books on the future of the Internet, as well as the most recent EDGE question, asking 172 contemporary thought-leaders how the Internet is changing the way they think.
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