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Bagheera tires of Huckleberry's theatrics.

Revisiting Stanley Miller's 1953 experiment about the creation of life on Earth.

"While in residence at the Baltimore Museum of Industry during the last two years, Catherine Wagner was given access to their 50,000+ collection of historic light bulbs, one of the premier collections of vintage and antique light bulbs in the United States, with lights dating from the early 19th century. The resulting series of photographs titled A Narrative History of the Light Bulb embodies both sculptural installation and photography. Wagner creates arrangements of bulbs that she then photographs with an 8 by 10 view camera in order to record the glass enclosures and the delicate filaments in stunning detail. Wagner’s work has long been noted for its investigation of the dissemination of knowledge and the construction of culture and these new works follow in her trajectory of providing access to the close scrutiny of scientific objects."

More proof, as if needed, that the true definition of a gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipe, but won't.
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John Atkinson sends along this link to <I>The Vintage Knob</I>, which shows the naughty bits of some classic '70s gear.

Lest I begin every blog entry in a negative fashion let me begin by saying, I love the music of Led Zeppelin.

When John Atkinson and I were driving from Kansas to New Mexico after recording <A HREF="http://ssl.blueearth.net/primedia/product.php?productid=22&cat=1&page=3…;, we spotted a crop duster spraying a roadside field. I was stunned by his precision at high speed&mdash;and by the exuberant loops with which he terminated each run. It looked incredibly difficult, and also like he was having a ball.