"Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States."

17 Minutes is a performance and video blog project. Each day I spend 17 minutes standing next to a tree, collapsing at end of the duration. Using time as a signifer this ritual offers a place of reflection, the time between, and deals with the specific circumstance of my own brother's suicide. As a reenactment it aims to be reminder of the life I am engaged in.

Check out Chris Barr's project here: 17 Minutes.

My condolences regarding your brother's passing, Chris.

Life Technology Research has developed the Hyperdimensional Oscillator using a futuristic Tesla technology, psychotronics and quantum physics (!!!) to allow the user to access other dimensions of space time for a one-time low purchase price of $89.95 - a 50% discount from their regular price of $179.95.

http://www.lifetechnology.org/hyperdimensional.htm (Thanks for the laugh, Rory!)

After you buy this, let's talk about me sellin' you the Brooklyn bridge for a one-time low purchase price of $49.99. Make your checks payable to Neatorama.

Harry Eng, a former minister and elementary school teacher (and magician), created these impossible bottles.

From the website:

"Harry would tell you straight away that everything went through the neck of the bottle and that all of his bottles were standard, off the grocery shelf variety. No monkey business with the bottle. The stuff inside? That's up to you to figure out. "

Link (Thanks Tony! Very cool find!)

Tony Cabral said it best:

The Blaschkas were a father and son pair of glassblowers who made a number of gorgeous models of sea life that now reside at Cornell and Harvard. These things are tiny and flawless. What pushes the limits of sanity is that these were made in the mid 19th century. Not only was there no advanced machinery involved, they couldn't even phone a friend to say, "Look what I did"

See their amazing works at the Blaschka Marine Invertebrates at Cornell University. (Thanks Tony!)

I don't know what sport this is, but count me out!

Cruel lesson of Newton's First Law: "Object in motion stays in motion".

Elizabeth Hickok depicts various landscapes of San Francisco using jello. This one above is the Bay Bridge.

"I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which I use to make molds. I then cast the buildings in Jell-O. Similar to making a movie set, I add backdrops, which I often paint, and elements such as mountains or trees, and then I dramatically light the scenes from the back or underneath. The Jell-O sculptures quickly decay, leaving the photographs and video as the remains."

Link (via grow-a-brain)

Sixteen-year old Michael Viscardi won first place in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition, the world's most prestigious high school science competition, and a $100,000 college scholarship.

The homeschooled senior solved a century old math problem called Dirichlet problem (which is way too complicated to explain here).

Way to go, Michael! Link

Stephen Wulffraat discovered a new species of mammal in the island of Borneo, Indonesia.

According to the photographers, the animal is

"an enigmatic, red-furred creature with tiny ears and distinctive markings. The leaf that obscures its face makes it impossible to say if it has a pointed snout like a dog or fox, or a flat face like a cat. A second photo, from behind, shows it to have a long, bushy tail rather like a fox, and large hind legs. It is slightly larger than a domestic cat."

Link