"This is a list of fictional medicines and drugs from works of fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction). Some of the items listed as medicines or drugs, may be used as both or in other capacities, but fictional works are often vague on such distinctions." from Wikipedia.

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"Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything."

"Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation." from TED.com

What a difference an autocorrect makes.

"All puzzles that appeared in the Linguistics Challenge adhered to strict guidelines, as outlined by the charter of the International Olympics in Linguistics and Mathematics."

"The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people's grammar."

How to create 6 month exposures.

"Apparently even more people want to see IE6's cold dead body than we imagined."

The museum of science, art and human perception. Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. The Exploratorium is a leader in the movement to promote museums as informal education centers.

The Tinkering School offers an exploratory curriculum designed to help kids – ages 8 to 17 – learn how to build things. By providing a collaborative environment in which to explore basic and advanced building techniques and principles, we strive to create a school where we all learn by fooling around. All activities are hands-on, supervised, and at least partly improvisational.

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During play, the negative space between windows is transformed into a playing field—the abstracted tennis court of Pong.

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The Arena for Accountable Predictions. The purpose of Long Bets is to improve long–term thinking. Long Bets is a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake.

Celebrating insects in art and the art of being an insect

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