From Slashdot: Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA Evidence. This article covers two techniques that can now be used to falsify a crime scene with planted DNA.
On the one hand, this was probably inevitable. There’s very little man can understand but not control. On the other hand, this is truly a shame, as DNA evidence has been used frequently in the past few years to free wrongly-accued long-term inmates who were convicted before DNA tests were common.
Ode to Jack Kerouac is a beautifully done picture on Flickr. The rest of Olivander’s photos can be found here.
Thomas Allen’s Book Art Photography on Paintalicious.
American photographer Thomas Allen constructs witty and clever dioramas using figures cut from the covers of old pulp paperbacks. Using salacious pulp art drawing’s of the ’40s and ’50s that covered books such as ” I Married a Dead Man” and ” Marihuana Girl’, Allen constructs one set of pictures up close while obscuring another, and in the process creates a different context. Each piece is given a brand new storyline, though never quite strays from their cheeky origins.
This is some pretty creative stuff. It’s like magazines turned into 3D images. But Paintalicious also has lighter fare, like The Secret History Of Kiss.
This is a subject very important to me right now. I recently spend some time in a rainy part of Maine, and came back with at least two dozen mosquito bites. They’re finally starting to ease up a little, but I’ve lost a lot of sleep from waking up scratching myself.
I found this article on Slashdot: Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching. It turns out that itching isn’t really just another form of mild pain. There are separate circuits of nerve cells to convey itchiness and pain, and their studies suggest that itch and pain signals are transmitted along different pathways in the spinal cord.
