Eric Molinsky

Eric Molinsky appears in the following:

Imagine Your Next Vacation Destination: Kepler-186f

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory imagines exoplanetary travel for leisure with these vintage-style posters.
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Photos Transform Office Workers Into Athletic Gods

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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Regular people are transformed into awesome-looking athletes in Benjamin Von Wong's highly stylized photographs.
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It’s a Giant Dirt Igloo – Want to Buy It?

Thursday, January 08, 2015

An architect designing a lunar colony for NASA discovered that the dome-shaped buildings could work as inexpensive housing here on Earth.

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Existential Progress Bars

Tuesday, January 06, 2015

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A graphic designer turns tedious progress bars into existential questions.
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For A TV Spy Show, The CIA Approves The Scripts

Thursday, January 01, 2015

On the FX's “The Americans,” Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play a typical suburban family in the 1980s. They’re also Soviet spies, moles sent to live among us.

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Gertie, The Dinosaur Who Gave Birth to a Mouse

Thursday, December 25, 2014

The first animated character wasn’t a mouse — it was a dinosaur, Gertie. Her creator thought cartoons would become a great art form, and was bitter when they went commercial.

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The Greatest Animated Film Never Made

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

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"The Thief and the Cobbler," an Aladdin-like film worked on by former Disney animators, took 30 years to make and was never released.
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Student Doodles from the Middle Ages

Monday, December 15, 2014

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A scholar's discovery of 600-year-old doodles gives us a glimpse into the wandering minds of 15th-century students.
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Have Yourself a Scary Little Krampus

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

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St. Nicholas has long rewarded kids who are nice, but did you know he has a counterpart? Krampus the demon punishes naughty tykes.
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Alan Turing, Digital Pioneer

Friday, November 21, 2014

Alan Turing’s pioneering vision for computers continues to shape our daily lives, decades after his death.

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Alan Turing, Man and Myth

Friday, November 21, 2014

The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the British code breaker and mathematician. But Turing, the original computer genius, remains enigmatic.

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Batgirl Crosses the River into Gotham's Brooklyn

Thursday, November 20, 2014

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Batgirl's latest reboot takes her across the river into Gotham's Brooklyn, giving her a style and sensibility that spells "Williamsburg."
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Famous Paintings Sell For Millions At Auction, But The Artist Gets Zero

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Unlike novelists and musicians, visual artists don't get royalties for their work. New legislation aims to fix this by taxing public sales, but auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's oppose the idea.

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Spawn of Gerrymander

Monday, November 03, 2014

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When Congressional districts are redrawn, the shapes they form on a map are odd indeed. These artists make a virtue of that.
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Rooftop Giants: New York Water Towers

Monday, October 20, 2014

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Photographer Ronnie Farley says every New York water tower has a personality: "Some have faces, some are clustered together like families."
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Have We Finally Conquered the Uncanny Valley?

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

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Animating a realistic human being has been the holy grail of CGI. Australian animator Chris Jones may have cracked the code with "Ed."
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The Real Have-Beens of Hollywood

Friday, October 03, 2014

Half a dozen of this fall’s most promising films star actors playing washed-up versions of themselves. Why? 

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NanoArt: Teeny Tiny Landscapes

Monday, September 29, 2014

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With the help of an electron microscope, some scientists have gone past observing the atomic landscape to shaping it, creating tiny sculptures and other works known as NanoArt.
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Artists Want a Cut From Auction Mega-Sales

Thursday, September 25, 2014

If an artist sells a work of art for thousands of dollars and then years later it's sold again for millions at auction, the artist gets nothing. A bill on Congress might change that.

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Why You Should Be Watching "The Knick"

Thursday, September 11, 2014

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Steven Soderbergh's The Knick is a delightfully bloody show about turn-of-the-century medicine. His New York is punctuated by bright whites, making 1900 feel futuristic.
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