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You know that feeling you get when you get back from lunch?

The one that keeps your eyelids drooping for the next hour and a half? Food coma? Maybe. Natural rhythm? Perhaps.

It don’t matter. Give in.

http://www.thestar.com

It was recently found encased in ye olde traditional cocoon of amber in Southeast Asia.

Chronologically, it beats out it’s second-place competition by about fifty million years, which is all I hope to do when I kick the bucket.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061025-oldest-bee.html

This was posted up on Break today - somewhat related to the other day’s post - what you see ain’t what you get!

The cartoonist and author who came up with the hilarious Dilbert comic has recently suffered from an untreatable condition known as Spasmodic Dysphonia, which essentially causes you to lose your voice, permanently.

Except that he’s getting around it…

Check out his (inspiring) account of how he’s dealing with it -Shakespeare or Dr. Seuss would both approve of his solution.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html

Here’s an interesting site by Greg Apodaca, a professional digital retoucher.

It’s pretty amazing to see the before and after shots he puts together - re-reminds you of what you’re seeing (or not really seeing) when you’re waiting in the supermarket queue, wondering who buys those magazines.

As you cruise through his portfolio, you see the after-shot - mouse over it to see what it started off looking like.

Check it out

This apparatus, called a Rubens Tube, illustrates that sound in air is related to pressure variations in the air. It demonstrates the relationship between wavelength, frequency, and wave speed.

This experiment was first done by Heinrich Rubens, an understudy of Einstein, and is hella cool.

This is a hilarious knockoff of the guy who took a picture of himself every day for six years…

The best scene of the pilot of Korgoth of Barbaria…warning…hide the kids.