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The Man Behind 'The Last Bookstore'  

Josh Spencer is the owner and operator of The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles. It's aptly named; after all, there have been widespread closures of bookstores across the country in favor of online purchases and e-readers. Chad Howitt's short film, Welcome to the Last Bookstore, is an emotional look at Spencer's journey towards opening the store and the heart behind its success. Years ago, he was in an accident that left him unable to walk and forced him to reexamine his life. “I've always been a writer and a reader, so I thought, ‘Well, I'll try books,'” he says. “It was busy from the first day we opened our doors.”

For more of Howitt's work, visit his website. He's currently working on a short film based on the poem "From 35,000 feet / Praise Aviophobia," by the American poet Geffrey Davis.

 
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r0B0t: We've only explored 0.0001 percent of the ocean, but that's about to change.  

Off the coast of Bermuda, tiny vessels are diving 1,000 feet to research something we know surprisingly little about: the ocean itself. Though the ocean makes up 95 percent of the planet's habitable area, we've explored 0.0001 percent of it.

Nekton, a U.K.-based NGO, launched its first mission in mid-July to finally give us an understanding of the deep sea, using tiny research pods that are reminiscent of goldfish bowls — bowls with robot arms that grab samples from corals and sponges. The Guardian reports that the mission has uncovered new species, large black coral forests, and fossilized beaches.

There's one thing we do know about the deep sea: We're already changing it. Higher temperatures and ocean acidification are starving the deep sea of oxygen and changing how food circulates. That's worrisome, because the deep ocean performs important functions: absorbing heat, regulating carbon, and terrifying us with alien-like creatures (Exhibit A: the blobfish).

Once the Nekton mission is complete, the pods will turn their grabby little arms to the Mediterranean Sea.

Until then, the goings-on of the deep sea remains one of life's greatest mysteries — like how life originated or where your socks disappeared to after that last load of laundry.

Filed under: Article, Business & Technology, Climate & Energy, News, Science

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline We've only explored 0.0001 percent of the ocean, but that's about to change. on August 18, 2016.

 
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r0B0t: A Museum Shaped Like A Giant's Heart  

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Standing in sharp contrast to the more traditional historic architecture of Graz, Austria, the Kunsthaus Graz art museum was designed to break out of the usual white box museum design and it ended up looking like a giant robot/demon heart from the future.

The modern museum was built in 2003 during the time when Graz served as the European Capital of Culture, a roving honor that is awarded to a different European city each year. Rather than install another bland box among the lovely, aging buildings of the city, the designers went in the completely opposite direction, giving the building a more rounded, organic look. It also manages to look completely otherworldly. The bulbous shape and the skylight shafts that protrude from the top of the structure make it look like a metallic monster heart.

The gleaming surface of the museum is also embedded with nearly 1,000 fluorescent rings that can be programmed to create patterns, making the building even more spectacular and strange at night. Much of the structure's power is absorbed by solar panels on the gleaming roof of the building, so it is almost as though it is gaining energy like an actual living being.

While the museum definitely stands out among the rest of Graz's uniformly historic buildings, it is now a beloved landmark of the city, and well worth a visit whether you are a fan of art or just looking to see what a giant's silver heart would look like.  

If you liked this, you'll probably enjoy Atlas Obscura's new book, which collects more than 700 of the world's strangest and most amazing places: Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders.

 
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Microsoft thinks its time Mac users ditch Evernote for OneNote  

It seems Microsoft doesn't like Evernote. That's okay, I don't either. It doesn't matter what your reasoning. Whether it's the constant state of flux in the upper levels of management, the bloated and not-at-all reliable interface or the fact that the price just went up to $69.99 per year for premium users (up from $50) — Microsoft wants you to switch to OneNote. It's not the first time Microsoft targeted disgruntled Evernote users, either. In March, the company unveiled its importer tool for Windows, aimed squarely at those looking for an Evernote alternative. Now, the importer is coming to Mac. That's…

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Facebook open-sources its AI-building research so you'll stop building shitty bots  

Facebook wants to show you how the sausage is made. Facebook is open-sourcing its AI bot-building research. Part of its Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab's mission, the plan is to provide better access to researchers and engineers to they, in turn, can build better bots. The code library, called ‘fastText' is now available on Github and according to Facebook, only requires a compiler with “good C++11 support.” The appeal of fastText is in the speed  and efficiency at which you can train your bot. FAIR claims you can train models “on more than 1 billion words in less than 10 minutes…

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World's largest aircraft just completed a 20 minute test flight  

The hybrid plane/blimp/helicopter known as Airlander 10 spent 20 minutes in the air today after months of preparation. The airship, originally intended for the US military, lost its funding in 2013 due to defense spending cuts. Since, Hybrid Air Vehicles raised over $4.4 million through two crowdfunding campaigns in addition to grants from the European Union and UK government. Unusual shape aside, the Airlander 10 has a significantly lower carbon footprint than commercial airliners. The 300-foot long aircraft is also about 50 feet longer than the world's biggest passenger planes and features four engines and no internal structure to speak…

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GOAT legs could keep robots upright over rough terrain  

Most of the robots in existence are clumsy buffoons. Case in point: As advanced as our robots have become, they're mostly still lacking the very human ability to avoid falls by making seemingly negligible changes to speed, center of balance and range of motion. In short, it's not the sort of thing you'd fear in a robot apocalypse. It's hard to fear a robot that can't walk over uneven terrain or slippery surfaces, after all. Carnegie Mellon University student Simon Kalouche has other ideas. Kalouche's leg is designed for maximum range of motion and easy force reduction. In other words, it can…

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Disney just filed a patent for real lightsabers (sorta)  

In the coming years, Disney is planning 14-acre tracts in both California and Florida to house its new Star Wars area. If that's enough to get you stoked to visit a Disney theme park, wait 'til you find out about the lightsabers. According to a patent application, Disney Enterprises filed for something called an “Audience Interaction Projection System” that enables fans to deflect laser beams in real time using a rather complex thingamajig that resembles a lightsaber. According to the application: An entertainment environment has a user with a faux light saber that interacts with a drone flying through the air…

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These 11 Photobooks Will Transport You  
 
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