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As a kid I was fascinated by the fact that back in the day there used to be woolly mammoths, sabertooth tigers, milodons, etc. roaming across the plains.  I mean, what sort of six year old boy couldn’t love something like this: For the uninitiated, that’s a sabertooth tiger a.k.a. a Smilodon taking down a sloth while… Continue reading So That’s Where All The Woolly Mammoth’s Went…

For some reason, I keep coming across maps that seem to misplace Quebec. This Aer Lingus map showed upstate New York in up-province Quebec.  Now today I came across this map in Wired: It’s a game of Risk from 2027 and the world has a new group of nations that didn’t exist a mere 20… Continue reading Quebec: No Love from Map-Makers

Last night’s fireworks were a bit of a disappointment for those in Manhattan.  A combination of rain and wind conspired to blow all the smoke from the detonations towards us – and obscured the fireworks.  However, there was one amazing sight: the image of hundreds of people on their rooftops holding umbrellas as they strained… Continue reading Fireworks & Rooftops

Over the past few days I’ve been reading through a stack of Wired magazines that have accumulated in my apartment over the past few months.  As I was reading through an article Eureka! (a photo essay on where inspiration comes from), I came across the following image: It’s the Cornell cafeteria where in 1946 Richard… Continue reading The Challenge of an Original Thought