Steampunk Screensavers

In my ongoing fascination with the Neo-Victorian “steampunk” art movement, I have started to become aware of the shear volume of interest there is surrounding the idea. The internet is full of interested individuals, there are a number of newer movies being made that borrow from the same inspirational pool, as well as a few [...]

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Make thy cheese

­When you buy milk at the grocery store, you probably look pretty carefully at the expiration date. It’s not that it might be bad; it’s that you need to make sure you can finish it all before then. But what if you could just buy a whole gallon and not worry about drinking it all [...]

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The Accidental Agrarian

The Accidental Agrarian is a blog which seems that it took off recently. Its Commentary category is a pure gem. Below please find the link to this site and several excerpts written by Podchef.

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CORPUS CLOCK

The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college’s new library building.
It was unveiled on 19 September by Prof Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the global bestseller, A Brief History of Time.
The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, [...]

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MECHANISMS

Tatja is someone who in the period of the renaissance would have been called homo universalis…a person with interests and skills in many areas: artistic, cultural, mechanical and scientific. As an independent researcher, her studies have taken her into many regions of scientific study. She started early, building an oscilloscope from scratch at age 14.
 
For [...]

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