https://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/new# io9 Ancient Greek Music

"Since 2009, the contemporary amplified ensemble Icebreaker have been collaborating with London’s Science Museum on an investigation of the relationship between electronic music and live acoustic performance, starting with Brian Eno’s Apollo and now continuing with Kraftwerk Uncovered. Apollo toured internationally in 2010-12 and Kraftwerk Uncovered will do the same from 2014. Icebreaker’s Artistic Director James Poke writes about the project and the light it has thrown upon this iconic material."

An animated gif for every occasion

"On a visit to the zoology section a cupboard was opened before us, it was filled with skulls, dried fish and a couple of boxes. As the history of this cupboard was explained – it was Tradescant’s Museum – the oldest in the country – it suddenly dawned on me what was in those boxes. And that we were going to see it.

"We were going to see the only soft tissue of a dodo anywhere in the world."

"...prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley claims to have inspired "Fire and Ice".[2] Shapley describes an encounter he had with Robert Frost a year before the poem was published in which Frost, noting that Shapley was the astronomer of his day, asks him how the world will end. Shapley responded that either the sun will explode and incinerate the Earth, or the Earth will somehow escape this fate only to end up slowly freezing in deep space."

"Having roamed and witnessed the remote, the unexplored, the unmonitored and the unmarked for the past 20 years, artist Julie Brook is now taking her topographical travels and is decanting them into a new exhibition in the Wapping Project´s Boiler Room. Made, Unmade is the filmic documentation of Brook´s in situ sculptures, created in the deserts of Libya and Namibia, out of local rocks and stones Brooks dug out of the earth herself. The result is a film installation which records the transient duration of these sculptures; from the grueling construction process to the pieces themselves."

"Earlier this year, Thames Water came across a 15-tonne mass of fat and waste products in Kingston-upon-Thames. The size of a double-decker bus, this congealed clot of waste was the largest "fatberg" ever discovered in Britain."

A BBC crew headed underground to meet the people who tackle "fatbergs" and keep the city's sewerage network flowing.

This piece of public art is high above Burnley on the Pennine moors. It uses the prevailing westerly winds to generate discordant and haunting sounds to accompany the view from Crown Point

What a fudge!

An exclusive stream of the previously unheard version of Talking Heads performing 'Psycho Killer' featuring Arthur Russell on cello. http://ow.ly/lfwRH https://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/new# Dazed Digital Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (B-Side) ft Arthur Russell

Resampled architecture, fantasy buildings

"They discovered that while the networks associated with Beowulf and the Iliad had many of the properties of real social networks, the network associated with Tain was less realistic... That led them to conclude that the societies described in the Iliad and Beowulf are probably based on real ones, whereas the Tain appears more artificial." & The Odyssey looks real too

Aeroville, Queenshite, Peverel, Poultry, Neckinger, Castelnau, Corbicum, Dylways, Strand, Molescroft et al.

From "Impersonator", an album out on Matador May 21st. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/impersonator/id617254014 Someone died Gun shot right outside Your father, he is dead I see him in my head Childhood’s End Goodbye my holy friend Love me, it’s a sin Can you see me caving in? Weighing down, weighing down, weighing down It’s weighing down, weighing down, weighing down On me, me, me, yeah Brothers feel Killing time standing in the field Our fate, it is sealed At birth we made a deal I don’t cry God, tell me why Love, death, night flight Best friend crucified Weighing down, weighing down, weighing down It’s weighing down, weighing down, weighing down On me, me, me, yeah Won’t someone come? For mehttps://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/new# Majical Cloudz Childhood's End

33 or 45?

https://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/new# Four Tet Pyramid (Atoms For Peace rmx 1)

https://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/new# jochempaap Speedy J - De-orbit

An US cab driver may pay a dispatcher ~$100/shift for access to a taxi medallion that may currently cost nearly $1m - but whose value might drop to zero as car-sharing apps kick in

"The old cottage was stripped back to its original core of a section of railway carriage - which itself dates from the 1870s. But instead of extending that, Conder designed a house that absorbed it, like an amoeba. Now the old carriage - treated as a found object, complete with scabby paintwork and with some entirely unpainted sections - stands in the main living-dining area and acts as the house's kitchen. There is no glass in its windows and its ends are open, so it is a solid yet skeletal structure. When you are in it, you are only partially enclosed."

RT @grahamfarmelo: Opportunity to win your own Higgs boson, donated by CERN (may expire at noon):

"Did you ever see a Grampus" MT @friendsofdarwin: In 1832, Darwin's shipmates fooled him with an April 1st prank -

RT @iansample: "We provided compelling evidence that our Universe was created by conspiracy." #lovearxiv

Wingsuit flying *through a skyscraper*

@honorharger @simonings I assume it's this: the Mirror rorriM event at Sci-Fi London

Genius. Grime radio dial-ins reconfigured as Conet-style numbers stations. ♫

@d_rr_ll Exists...

.@JamesGleick Yeah: < I think the one I snapped was redrawing GPS traces previously recorded by people, though

A Lego-based autonomous GPS drawing machine #drawn >

A ton of tea >

A self-satisfied aardvark >

An unborn icthyosaur >

And #Eastercon attendees: a vote for @timmaughan for best short is a vote FOR TEH FUTURE. Read LIMITED EDITION here:

RT @Slate: RT @mattyglesias: High-frequency trading firm pays professor to say HFT increases liquidity, but who cares? ...

RT @celestebiever: "I saw, for the first time in the world, atoms working in chemical reactions" <<I interv ...

2009: RT @newscientist: Robo-surgeon da Vinci facing lawsuits over burns and punctures

2009: RT @newscientist: Robo-surgeon da Vinci facing lawsuits over burns and punctures

"Otherwise the brain will pop out like a mushroom," he says >

RT @DrMichaelBrooks: My reflections on the Milner Prize in @newscientist. It won't create physicist celebrities, but... ...

Today I will mostly be perfekting my Kraftwerk kosplay (and yes, I do have the red shirt & black tie) >

Jerk-spiced chicken with fresh coconut salsa

Shin of beef stew with star anise

The warm, spicy note of star anise is delicious with beef. This rich stew will only improve for being left in the fridge for up to a week. Serves eight.

About 3 tbsp olive or sunflower oil
2kg shin of beef, cut into 4-5cm cubes
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
About 30 shallots, peeled and halved
2 whole garlic bulbs, cloves separated and peeled
1 glass red wine (optional)
500ml beef stock
500ml tomato passata
3-4 bay leaves
2 star anise

Heat the oven to 140C/285F/gas mark 1. Heat a tablespoon of oil in a large, nonstick frying pan over a fairly high heat. Season the beef, then brown in batches, adding a couple of handfuls to the pan at a time. Fry for five minutes, until golden-brown all over, transfer to a large, ovenproof casserole with a lid and repeat with remaining beef, adding a bit more oil with each batch.

Lower the heat under the frying pan, add another tablespoon of oil and fry the whole shallots and garlic cloves (again, in batches if need be) for about five minutes, stirring often, until golden. Tip into the meat pot.

Deglaze the frying pan with a glass of wine, if using, or water, let it bubble for a few minutes, stirring to loosen any bits of caramelised meat and seasoning stuck to the pan, then pour into the casserole. Add stock, passata, bay leaves and star anise to the beef pot, put on a medium flame and bring to a simmer. Cover and transfer to the oven for three to three and a half hours, until the beef is tender. Leave to cool completely, then refrigerate.

Reheat gently, season to taste, and dish up with creamy mash – spiked, if you like, with horseradish – and some steamed greens or cabbage.

"This mix, following on from Instantium Hardphace last year, is the second of a series of what I call 'horizontal slices.' The idea is that there are several long running 'themes' in my work -in other words, groups of pieces across time that partake of some kind of stylistic commonality. So whilst any given group will draw from nearly twenty years of releases, it will have an aesthetic unity that individual albums have often shunned. Of course, it's up to the listener to make sense (or otherwise) of what that aesthetic may be!" - Tom Jenkinson, March 2013 "Rotate Electrolyte" / Hello Everything (2006) "Planetarium" / Hello Everything (2006) "Ultravisitor" / Ultravisitor (2004) "Welcome To Europe" / Hello Everything (2006) "I Wish You Could Talk" / Go Plastic (2001) "PSultan (Squarepusher remix)" / Chaos A.D. (1998) "Port Rhombus" / Port Rhombus e.p. (1996) "Tetra-Sync" / Ultravisitor (2004) "Tommib" / Go Plastic (2001) "Theme From Ernest Borgnine" / Feed Me Weird Things (1996) Squarepusher - Ufabulum & Enstrobia EP out now on Warp Records Ufabulum Live - March 30th, Roundhouse, London http://www.squarepusher.net http://www.warp.nethttps://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/new# squarepusher Squarepusher - Endless Flamethrower v1.0

Pae White @SLG_artupdates >

(The @newscientist review of Scharf's book, published last year: )

And in me news, the latest @Lit_Review includes my review of Caleb Scharf's GRAVITY'S ENGINES (spoiler! I liked it)

... and I'm really enjoying NOWHERE MEN >

Elsewhere, I'm pretty excited about The Private Eye, the new crowdfunded book from Vaughan & Marcos >

I didn't really care for Damian Wayne, but Batman and Robin 18 was pretty amazing (as was Batman Inc. 8) >

“Radiation Ruling The Nation (Protection)” by Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor (@MassiveAttackUK) is my new jam. ♫

Invited to Barbican's Wonder street fair as guest of a "pink furry amygdala". It's all right mate, I'm with the brain

And then fan boy squee of discovering @newscientist ran THAT picture of pulsar pulses before Unknown Pleasures

Then there's this spooky one >

Been a day of cracking images. First, the big one (in several senses):

Physics Frontiers prize to Charles Kane, Laurens Molenkamp & Shoucheng Zhang, for work on topological insulators >

Hawking: thanks to Yuri Milner for recognizing theoretical work that's hard to confirm. Our interview w/ Milner: