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The other day I surfed over to look at the graphic design portfolio of one of my closest college friends and former roommate, David Yun.  He’s now in the graphic design program at Yale and putting together a growing collection of work (employers take note!)
The project that really caught my eye was his visualization of [...]

The New York Times had a fascinating article last week on out-of-body experiences and the brain activity that may account for them.  A Swiss neurologist was apparently zapping people’s brains (that’s the technical description) in a way that caused them to experience bizarre sensations.  Here’s an example:
Six years ago, another of Dr. Blanke’s patients underwent [...]

I just read an unusual article about an English woman who developed various foreign accents after having a stroke.  She apparently has a case of Foreign Accent Syndrome and is unable to recognize that she nows speaks with some kind of Canadian-Slovakian-Jamaican accent.  It sounds kind of funny, but I guess it’s really tough on [...]

So now I’ve come across the English version of the sticker I wrote about earlier.  This one has a nice mug of beer being thrown on a guy.  As for my translation, I think I did pretty good.  It’s interesting to note that the authors wrote “punched in the face” in English and used the [...]

This Turkish sticker caught my eye a couple nights ago as I was leaving the subway.  Here’s my attempt to translate it:
Attention!
Women are standing up for themselves
If you leer at, make catcalls at, or physically harass a woman, she might get angry, shout at you, and pour the beer in her hand over your head [...]

I don’t know who this might interest, but I found a section of the WZB website that gives the history of the architecture and shows quite a few pictures.  On WZB’s architecture.