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| Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 | |||
| 11:42 am | Fifteen Years After A School Shooting Buzzfeed's David Peisner writes about the aftermath of a 1998 school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, that left five dead and ten more wounded. To this day, the small town feels the pain—a pain shared by Newtown and many others. 
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| 10:10 am | Photos from on top of the Great Pyramid
The Pyramids of Giza close to tourists at 4:00 pm. Recently, a group of Russians managed to hide out at the site after closing time and scramble up the Great Pyramid of Cheops in the fading light. Naturally, they took photos. (Because if there is one thing the Internet has taught me about Russians, it's that they like to climb to dangerous heights and then take photos.) These shots are kind of fabulous, not just for the thrill of "yeah, somebody broke the rules!", but because of the perspective you get from on high that isn't visible in the many ground-level shots I've seen. From on top of the Pyramid, you can see how the stone is pockmarked and carved — it really looks like something humans cut out of the Earth. You can also see the graffiti left by generations of tourists in multiple languages; English, Arabic, French, and more. And you can see the edge of the modern city, shimmering just at the horizon. I don't think I'd previously had such a profound sense of how closely modern Egyptians lived and worked to the Great Pyramid, before. What a fascinating view! Thanks to Steve Silberman for the link! 
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| 10:08 am | A friendly reminder: if you like Boing Boing the blog, join us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or Ins  Boing Boing is on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and Instagram. Join us at the social network of your choice, or heck, all of 'em.
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| 10:45 am | Assemblage raygun
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| 10:15 am | Honoring death by donating your body to science i09's Annalee Newitz is donating her body to science when she dies. In a moving and fascinating article, she tells the story of her mother's death, how it led her to make this choice for herself, and what happens to bodies once they find their way into the hands of medical schools and scientists. 
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| 9:24 am | University in Kansas offers Bachelor of Science degree in Drones "K-State is one of the first two Universities in the U.S. to offer a Bachelor of Science in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Our program uses a hands-on approach for learning and attaining the skills needed to safely operate and manage UAS -- it’s what sets K-State apart from the rest." [HT: @WilliamJDobson] 
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| 9:25 am | Watch the latest video posts in our Boing Boing video archive  We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include:
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| 9:02 am | Two-headed bull shark A Gulf of Mexico fisherman opened the uterus of an adult bull shark and found a two-headed shark pup inside. According to Michigan State University researchers, this is the first two-headed bull shark confirmed by scientists. ""Given the timing of the shark's discovery with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, I could see how some people may want to jump to conclusions," Michael Wagner, MSU assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife, wrote in a report in the Journal of Fish Biology. "Making that leap is unwarranted. We simply have no evidence to support that cause or any other." (EurekAlert!)
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| 8:48 am | Winny Puhh: through YouTube, bizarro Estonian punk band finds new global fame
Death and Taxes magazine has a good backgrounder here, with more of their videos, all of which are weird, some of which are NSFW. Listen to their songs here. * I know this is gonna shock you, but their name translates to "Winnie the Pooh." HT: Syd Garon!
Photos courtesy of Winny Puu, via the band's Facebook. 
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| 9:33 am | Thursday: White House/Tom Kalil Google Hangout about the maker movement  On Thursday (3/28) at 3pm ET, Boing Boing pal and White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil is hosting a Google Hangout to talk about the maker movement! Tom has been instrumental in helping President Obama and the administration understand the value of maker culture in sci/tech education. Joining Tom in the Hangout will be folks like MAKE founder Dale Dougherty, Super Awesome Maker Show's Super Awesome Sylvia, and Ford future tech lead Venkatesh Prasad. "White House Hangout: The Maker Movement" (Above, President Obama checks out a soccer-playing robot built by Blue Bell, PA high school students. Photo by Pete Souza.)
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| 9:53 am | TIme-lapse of a particularly intense aurora borealis display Photographer Göran Strand created this stunning time-lapse video made from photographs of the aurora borealis as seen from Östersund, Sweden on March 17, 2013. The video consists of 2,464 images taken over four hours. The extreme intensity of the aurora borealis display resulted from a huge solar storm spurred by two solar flares that erupted on March 6.
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| 9:24 am | Naming the anonymous victims of US drone attacks Less than 20% of drone victims have been named. UK-based NGO The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has a new project: Name the Dead. There's a fundraiser here. (HT: @ggreenwald) 
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| 9:52 am | English school (briefly) bans triangular desserts, citing food-fight shuriken risks The ban did not stand very long. Public mockery seems to have killed it.
Triangular Treats Banned Due to Risk of Sharp Corners (Image: Flapjacks..., a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from ajy's photostream)
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| 8:44 am | Ocean scientists say 19-year-old's "realistic" plan to clean up the ocean isn't actually realistic Earlier this week, Jason told you about a TEDx talk in which 19-year-old Boyan Slat presents a plan to remove plastic from the world's oceans. Lots of people are excited about this, which is reasonable. Particulate plastic in the ocean is a big problem that has, thus far, evaded any reasonable clean-up plans. There's just so much of it, it's so tiny, and the ocean is, you know, kind of huge. If a kid can come up with a plan that works, it would be fantastic. Unfortunately, the ocean scientists at Deep Sea News say Slat's system isn't as simple and practical as he thinks it is. Among the many problems: Slat's plan would catch (and kill) as many vitally important plankton as pieces of plastic, and it calls for mooring plastic-collecting ships in the open ocean where the water is 2000 meters deeper than the deepest mooring ever recorded. Here's a mantra to remember: TED Talks — interesting if true. 
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| 8:29 am | Calling out Jane Goodall for a plagiarism and error-filled book Jane Goodall's new book isn't just filled with plagiarism, writes Michael Moynihan at The Daily Beast, it also drastically misconstrues agricultural science and presents poor sources — for instance, books published by the Maharishi University of Management and written by people with no scientific training at all are probably not the best sources to use if you're trying to build a legitimate case against the technology of genetic engineering. 
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| 8:00 am | Telekinesis' latest video has a romantic ghost in the machine Ghosts & Creatures is cut from Telekinesis' latest album, Dormarion. Have you loved a computer so much as much as your first? Actually, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, so yes. But anyway. 
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| 8:21 am | Are "theory" and "hypothesis" dead? Do you understand the difference between a "hypothesis" and a "theory"? Physics professor Rhett Alain thinks you probably don't. But he says that's not your fault. The words just aren't terribly precise, at least in the public parlance, and they only serve to make discussions about science confusing. He has a modest proposal: Let's replace them both with something that makes sense to the general public. 
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| 8:43 am | Lightest-ever aerogel is only twice as heavy as hydrogen
Graphene aerogel is the new world's lightest substance [Crave/Michelle Starr] (via Beyond the Beyond) (Image: Graphene aerogel resting on a delicate plant, Zhejiang University))
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| 8:11 am | TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, featuring "How to Draw Doug," and more, More, MORE! BE THE FIRST AMONG YOUR COHORT to see Tom the Dancing Bug, by @RubenBolling, every week! Members of the elite and prestigious INNER HIVE get the comic emailed to their inboxes at least a day before publication -- and much, much MORE! Please click HERE for information. Thank you.
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| 7:49 am | Rap Quotes: site-specific street art with official-looking signs bearing hip hop lyrics  He installs the signs at those same street corners and locations throughout New York City. Video below. [Animal New York]
(via Ethan Zuckerman)
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