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Is that even possible?

<I>The Smithsonian</I> has a nifty slideshow on Harry Houdini. It's mostly posters, but the action shots are worth checking out.

I discovered Erik Satie while in college. The music seemed perfectly fit for such strange and brightly-colored cartoon mornings, rainy afternoons, very sad and lonely drunken nights. Perfectly fit for a dude who felt out of time with himself, a mishmash of incomplete angles and ideas, a dance party, a moonlit walk along a muddy trail, a stranger, a desperate fuck.

Is there a unified field theory for biology?

<I>The Space Review</I> has published an interesting look at Heinlein's collaborations with filmmakers. You've got to love an article that contains lines like this: "To the extent that such an awful piece of filmmaking can actually have a message, <I>Rocketship X-M</I> has a shallow and not terribly original message that nuclear war is bad for children and other living things. The universe is hostile, God hates us, and we’re all doomed. Have a nice day."

Apparently, Newton, not those modifiers, was right all along. F=ma totally rules!

The Fraunhofer Institute is working on an active soundproof window that's "particularly effective at frequencies of 50&ndash;1000Hz." I want one now&mdash;but it'll be four years before they make it to market.