... not to reproduce what we can already see, but to make visible what we cannot

• Hedgehenge: Evidence of encircling hedges at Stonehenge. Hence the toy hedgehog found buried with a child there recently?!
• Last speaker of Bo, one of the world's most ancient languages, dies.
• Leon Botha, one of the world's oldest Progeria survivors, talks about spirituality, identity and leaving a lasting legacy. Here's more of his work. Great counterpoint to last week's Boing-Boing-facilitated viral explosion of the mock-trash Die Antwoord project.
• Fractal universe.
• African fractals and the origins of computing.
• If the universe is a fractal, is it a program?
• The Secret of Kells - a new animated movie based on the Book of Kells, from the creators of Skunk Fu.
• 'Zen' Bats hit their target by not aiming at it.
• Adam's family jewels and the uncensored bible.
• Pretty Suicide Machine, an in-progress essay from James Curcio's Immanence of Myth anthology.
• Eternal slavery: DARPA to breed immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms’ with molecular kill-switches.
• Japanese scientists create elastic water.
• Déjà Vu, Consciousness, Time & English Pubs, from the Dark Philosopher.
• Bruce Sterling on atemporality (if you have time).
• Wanted: mystery worshippers.
• Share International tracks down an unwilling Messiah via the web. 'Now listen 'ere!...'.
• Neanderthals in Poland ate cave bears.
• Glorious Gargoyles.

Thanks Rick

Quote of the Day:

The invisible & the non-existent often look very much alike.

Julia Sweeney