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Finally, fans of ‘80s sitcom “The Golden Girls” can live out their own adventures with Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia at home, thanks to a new, limited edition set of action figures.

(via "Golden Girls" action figures unveiled at New York Comic-Con - CBS News)

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Mural Featuring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as the Renaissance Painters They Were Named After

After 30 years of development, virus-beating insects are finally being deployed in megacities around the world.

“We were all a bit giddy,” O’Neill recalls. “We had been working on this thing for frigging decades. A whole bunch of us were there for that moment, people who had been on the journey for a long time.” the team marched through the streets, pausing at every fourth house to release a few dozen mosquitoes. Within two months, they had liberated some 300,000 of them, pausing only to duck an incoming cyclone.

“In 10 to 15 years, we should be able to make a significant dent in dengue.”

And in recent months, Eliminate Dengue researchers in Brazil and Colombia have shown that Wolbachia could help to curtail the spread of Zika—the now-infamous viral disease that has spread explosively throughout the Americas and causes microcephaly, a birth defect that stunts brain development. When carrying Wolbachia, mosquitoes do not seem to harbor the Zika virus in their saliva, and so are very unlikely to transmit it. For that reason, the World Health Organization recently recommended testing Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes as a way of curtailing the ongoing Zika crisis.

O’Neill’s team have answered the call. Over the next few years, they will release their insects in three to-be-confirmed locations in Brazil, Colombia, and the Asia-Pacific. Two of those will be home to around 2.5 million people. “We’re talking close to entire cities,” says O’Neill.

(via The Atlantic)

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The Multiverse You Can See

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, designed by Charles Jencks, is dedicated to visually representing complex theories through landscape design. The terrace dedicated to the multiverse theory is just one of many brilliant designs.