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70sscifiart

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

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thevaultoftheatomicspaceage

Fujitsu Bubcom 80 with an acoustic coupler for communication (1983)

ultrafacts

You’re chewing mint gum or sucking on a peppermint candy and draw in a breath of air and no matter how warm it is, the air feels icy cold. Why does this happen? It’s a trick mint and the chemical called menthol play on your brain that convinces your taste receptors they are exposed to cold.

Sensory neurons in your skin and mouth contain a protein called transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 8 (TRPM8)

Mint contains an organic compound called menthol that binds to TRPM8, making the ion channel open as if the receptor was exposed to cold and signaling this information to your brain. In fact, menthol sensitizes the neurons to the effect doesn’t wear off as soon as your spit out mint toothpaste or stop chewing a breath mint. If you take a sip of cold water right afterward, the cool temperature will feel especially cold.

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vio---let

A fun bookshop stop. The coolest lady was playing sax right at the corner, and you can smell all the glorious street foods from the market nearby.

ultrafacts

This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. He hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book.

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ultrafacts

This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. He hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book.

More pictures HERE

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