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The Alice 100
The Alice 100 collection at UBC contains hundreds of editions of the Alice in Wonderland, as parodies, film productions, stills and other works by Caroll. This article discusses the collection, and the variety of artwork that it has inspired over the years.
In other Alice related news, the British Library has made the first edition of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground available in its entirety, and there’s a version of Alice for the iPad.
Our matryoshka universe
Every black hole contains another universe? It’s possible that our universe is actually sitting inside the black hole of another universe and the black holes in our universe may lead to alternate realities.
According to a mind-bending new theory, a black hole is actually a tunnel between universes—a type of wormhole. The matter the black hole attracts doesn’t collapse into a single point, as has been predicted, but rather gushes out a “white hole” at the other end of the black one, the theory goes.
Vonnegut on story-telling
Kurt Vonnegut at the blackboard describing the G-I axis (good fortune-ill fortune) and how it applies to different stories.
Baseball card bubble
The great baseball card bubble, the collapse of an artificial economy. I started collecting baseball and hockey cards with my father in 1988, my interest peaked in the early nineties, but I remember pouring over Beckett’s and spending hours in the car to go to distant card shows.
On chess
Playing chess with Kubrick, a fond recollection of meeting with the director for an interview. Related but unrelated, an interview with Magnus Carlsen, the current world chess champion. It’s hard to explain, but it’s a fun interview to read, he comes across as relatively normal and down-to-earth. My introduction to chess was having my Dad destroy me in short order, kind of like a checkmate in four moves, but it might have been worse than that, thanks Dad.
Pursuing the elusive shot
Blood, Sweat and Photographic Tears, the story of a wildlife photographer in pursuit of that rare and fleeting frame. Greg du Toit spent eight months camping out daily at a Kenyan watering hole, enduring parasites and insects, to capture a photo of a wild lion drinking.
Nike’s recycled kit
For the 2010 World Cup, Nike has created a recycled kit with recycled packaging. The shirts are made from nylon, produced from more than thirteen million melted-down plastic bottles, creating a kit 15% lighter than previous versions.
Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner
Philip K. Dick never got to see Blade Runner, but thought highly of the preview that he saw before his death. The film by Ridley Scott was an adaptation of his short story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
PopSci archives
Popular Science has made their entire archive available for browsing. That’s more than a hundred years of the magazine, visible in its original format, advertising and all.