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Posts made in August, 2011

Jerry Gretzinger’s handmade fantasy maps – from 1963 to now

In 1963, Jerry Gretzinger began doodling, a rectangle with a crosshatch that looked like a top down view of a housing plan.   Then he began expanding it until he created an entire fantasy world, composed of nothing but hand-painted maps he has created for no reason at all, other than loving it.It's alive to him, it changes.See this amazing story and you'll be wondering just like we all...

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Jerry Gretzinger’s handmade fantasy maps – from 1963 to now

In 1963, Jerry Gretzinger began doodling, a rectangle with a crosshatch that looked like a top down view of a housing plan.   Then he began expanding it until he created an entire fantasy world, composed of nothing but hand-painted maps he has created for no reason at all, other than loving it.It's alive to him, it changes.See this amazing story and you'll be wondering just like we all...

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Jerry Gretzinger’s handmade fantasy maps – from 1963 to now

In 1963, Jerry Gretzinger began doodling, a rectangle with a crosshatch that looked like a top down view of a housing plan.   Then he began expanding it until he created an entire fantasy world, composed of nothing but hand-painted maps he has created for no reason at all, other than loving it.It's alive to him, it changes.See this amazing story and you'll be wondering just like we all...

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Bad News For Anti-Science Hippies – Food Prices Lead To Riots

Complexity theorists have some bad news for people who insist that unless it carries an organic label, food is evil; a group from the New England Complex Systems Institute says they've discovered what will trigger riots around the world in under two years.   It's the price of food and when it rises above the threshold they list for instability, social unrest will sweep the planet.read...

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Cavemen Cooked 2 Million Years Ago – And It Was Due To Efficiency

Cooking is not a modern invention, concludes new research.   It likely originated 1.9 million years ago, according to results they determined using statistical analysis and evolutionary trees.How so? They estimated,  in their analysis, how long we should spend feeding every day, based on our body sizes throughout evolutionary history.   Sure, it might seem at first glance like...

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