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A catchy ditty about the joys of freeganism proves that permaculture-inspired music doesn't have to suck.

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Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and working-class soldiers to liberate Portugal from the control of the government of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.

Andy Goldsworthy

Joshua Kirsch’s Concentricity 96 via colossal art.

Mass Production for the Masses: Shapeways CEO Peter Weijmarshausen on the Rise of Personal Manufacturing @ Forbes.

What’s happening with the democratization of production is game changing. With this at your fingertips, the world is a different place. Having access to this kind of technology will change the way products are consumed and developed. Think of the fact that you can mix materials on an almost molecular level. Next, you’ll be able to create new materials that we’ve never had before. You can mix strong and soft materials. You can engineer how a product will break if you put too much stress on it. Mix electronics into it, and we’ll see things you can’t even imagine now. Look at the Shapeways products in my office—you could make them all in traditional ways. But the next level will be things that are exclusively producible through new technology. With 3D printing you can get feedback and improve design after producing just one object. Your minimum run is one. So products can evolve much quicker. Mix this with the opening up of design—what open-source did for software, 3D printing can do for product design. I don’t know what we’re going to create, but it will be amazing.

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BEST VIEWED IN HD AND FULLSCREEN (with scaling off) Midnight Sun: A natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day. This...

My sister won the science fair with a "frictionless puck" using CO2, two jars, and two hockey pucks. This is not that:

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Vasco Ribeiro Casais e Tiago Pereira decidiram levar o seu projecto OMIRI para um novo nível, a partir das recolhas audiovisuais de Tiago Pereira, Vasco construiu toda uma nova base onde podem tocar e improvisar por cima.

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New research shows true picture of what and who is behind the political uprisings.

Shared by João someone else agrees with my cargo cult analogy, calling it liquid

El movimiento crece y crece pero “lo hace a través de la emoción, le falta pensamiento. Con emociones solo, sin pensamiento, no se llega a ninguna parte”. El alboroto de la emoción colectiva reproduce el espectáculo de un carnaval que acaba en sí mismo, sin consecuencia. “Durante el carnaval todo está permitido pero terminado el carnaval vuelve la normativa de antes”.

An introduction to Björk's new album Biophilia, by David Attenborough. In Biophilia, Björk brings together science, nature and music and blends them in her own style along with astonishing visuals which creates an interactive experience. Just check out this amazing Biophilia apps suite.

"As pessoas muito ricas em Portugal não são atingidas pelas medidas de austeridade na mesma proporção como são as outras famílias, designadamente as famílias de rendimento médio e médio baixo", disse Alfredo Bruto da Costa à Antena 1. Para o economista e investigador na área da pobreza, a austeridade "é uma expressão que nós ouvimos da boca dos políticos como se realmente todos fossem pagar equitativamente, e isso não é verdade".

05.00 minutes. / HD / 2011 HD single channel and HD 3D single channel. A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency. Special Thanks to Andy Kale. 20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception. semiconductorfilms.com/​root/​20Hz/​20Hz.htm

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Vasco Ribeiro Casais e Tiago Pereira decidiram levar o seu projecto OMIRI para um novo nível, a partir das recolhas audiovisuais de Tiago Pereira, Vasco construiu toda uma nova base onde podem tocar e improvisar por cima.

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Why Fixers Will Save Our Planet – Fixers @ The Atlantic via MAKE…

Kyle Wiens, founder of iFixit, is leading a team of journalists on a documentary trip in Africa to meet the community of electronics technicians who fix and remake the world’s discarded electronics. Here, he describes the inspiration for the trip.

The documentary page is here. This is smart, iFixit is becoming a cause, and it’s a business.