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The red-nosed pros at the 2014 World Clown Association annual convention know you think they're creepy. How does a maligned and misunderstood centuries-old art form survive bad PR and cultural ...

#clowns #long form article

Amazing face transplant -- so involved it might as well have been a partial *head* transplant.

(No photos of gore, but the illustration of the procedure may be a little intense for some.)

#medicine #surgery #face transplant #article

Dani Tinker, with the National Wildlife Federation, on the wonderful weird things growing in that felled log out back.

#nature #mushrooms #salamander #skink

Afghanistan's Teen Girls Turn The Camera On Kabul

#video #afganistan #feminism

'The Gang Gets Racist' doesn't translate well. Plus, a brief history of weird Russian sitcom...

#russian sitcoms #article #iasip

Normally, we expect a negative statement to mean the opposite of a positive one. For example, “Carlos is a scientist” means the opposite of “Carlos isn’t a scientist”. It’s impossible for both of them...

All Things Linguistic considers how Welcome to Night Vale achieves humor through violating certain deeply-held beliefs.

#article #linguistics #wtnv

The food writers on building a food movement that transcends class lines.

#interview #food #food movement

Leigh Bardugo writes haunting, Eastern-European inspired fairy tales:

The Too-Clever Fox Little Knife

#fiction #fairy tales #leigh bardugo

"algorithms are also a reminder that visualization is more than a tool for finding patterns in data. Visualization leverages the human visual system to augment human intellect: we can use it to better understand these important abstract processes, and perhaps other things, too."

#long form article #visualization #data visualization #algorithm

"If the phone rang and you were in another room, you had to come running: in that immediate sense, and in a way that now seems comical, your phone controlled you. And before the ‘90s, there was no caller ID, an inconvenience which ensured, for that benighted first century-plus of the instrument’s analog existence, the first premise of phone horror—that you could never know for certain whose voice, or what sound, would issue from the other end of that raised receiver."

Representations of the telephone as instrument of fear, conduit of spirits, and messenger of madness.

#phone horror #phone phobia #telephone #article series #long form article

Creating a typeface from handwriting.

#fonts #typeface #font

How a cosmic superhero became a talk-show host and helped launch a cartoon comedy empire.

#space ghost #animation #long form article

Opened this week at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century explores the dangers of style not just for the wearers, but for the peopl...

#fashion #victorian

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world:  How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Here's how he conducted his experiment.

This is the same Tim of the documentary, Tim's Vermeer, which I highly recommend.

#art #vermeer

The Sad, Century-Long History of Terrible Wizard of Oz Movies. Would you like an exhaustive list? Sure you would...

#superpost #metafilter #wizard of oz

She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn’t entirely certain. It wouldn’t have mattered, if I had been in Radch space. Radchaai don’t care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn’t mark gender in any way. The language...

#long form article #gender

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