Nova Scotia’s Oak Island is for sale. Its price tag of $7 million may be worth the investment considering the island is home to the famous Money Pit.

The Pit was discovered in 1795 by a local boy named Daniel McGinnis who, spotting an unusual clearing in the earth under one of the island’s oak trees, was prompted to start digging. The discovery of layered planks, mysterious stone slabs, and mats made of coconut fibers descending deep into the ground turned his casual afternoon dig into an all-out excavation.

What appears to be a complex flooding trap has thwarted efforts to reach the bottom of the Money Pit ever since. Some think the pit was purposely flooded with seawater, via a series of artificial swamps and tunnels, to hide its contents.

Link | The UnMuseum: Oak Island Mystery | Wikipedia Entry

Artist Pauline Pratt’s neck injury inspired her to do a 10-month residency at the University of Southampton, UK to explore the art in science and medicine.

Over a ten-month period, Pauline was able to spend her days working in close proximity to the scientists she was studying.

They taught her how to use sophisticated microscopes, how to grow cell cultures and how to track the special dyes used to spot cancer cells.

In exchange, they watched her paint and video in their laboratory and got a glimpse into how their work is perceived.

BBC March 2006, Jun 2005 news articles | Art Vault | Pauline Pratt’s website.

This isn’t your father’s prefab. It’s Marmol Radziner’s award winning prefab, priced between $215,000 to $295,000. Link (via Friday Fishwrap)

Between 1967 and 1979, Gold Key published 61 Star Trek comics. Mark Lookabough and Curt Danhauser have the cover and synopsis of all of them. Link (via Eye of the Goof)

Twelve Olympian gods and goddesses of the Greek Pantheon, in Lego minifig goodness. Link (via Driko)

If you ever buy a cut of meat at your friendly neighborhood supermarket, you should but may not want to read this.

OK – so, which steak is older? It’s a trick question, they were bought at the same day but the one on top was packaged in an airtight container with a touch of carbon monoxide to keep it stay red for weeks!

This form of "modified atmosphere packaging," a technique in which other gases replace oxygen, has become more widely used as supermarkets eliminate their butchers and buy precut, "case-ready" meat from processing plants.

Link (via Dr. Beeper)