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Tech NewsInternetWhat Myspace Lost
As Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Myspace was never finished, only abandoned.” Not those words exactly, but if brainyquotes.com disappeared, and the Louvre burned down, and all libraries were defunded, and a solar flare wiped out all of Earth’s power, and a historian found this sole surviving blogpost 200 years from now, they might equally … Continued
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Tech NewsSomeone Spent Almost Half a Billion Dollars on a Possibly Inauthentic da Vinci Painting
On Wednesday, auction records were shattered when an anonymous buyer spent $450.3 million to be the proud owner of a “long lost” painting “by” Leonardo da Vinci. The thing is, it may not have even been painted by Leonardo, it’s in terrible shape, it’s not especially good, and in the financial world of art, none … Continued
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Engineer Discovers Something Amazing in Da Vinci’s ‘Irrelevant Scribbles’
Never assume that Leonardo Da Vinci’s doodles are meaningless. That, at least, is the takeaway of a new study out of the University of Cambridge, which shows that a page of Leonardo’s scribbled notes from 1493—previously dismissed as “irrelevant” by art historians—is actually the first written demonstration of the laws of friction. It is widely … Continued
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Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man Proves Action Figures Can Be Art
Figma’s Table Museum series is adding another iconic artistic masterpiece to its collection. Following up on action figure versions of the Venus de Milo and Michelangelo’s David, there’s now a bizarre multi-limbed version of Leondardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man to add to your toy box. The original Vitruvian Man sketch appeared in the third book … Continued
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The Brilliantly Insane Plan to Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci’s Genome
An international team of scholars has just unveiled plans to science the shit out of Leonardo da Vinci, the man who gave us the Mona Lisa and envisioned futuristic technologies like helicopters and tanks 500 years ago. Goals of the fledgling “Leonardo Project” include recovering the famous Renaissance figure’s remains and reconstructing his genetic code. … Continued
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French Scientist Claims the “Real” Mona Lisa Is Hidden Underneath the Famous Painting
After a decade of work, French scientist Pascal Cotte claims there are hidden portraits underneath the Mona Lisa—including one of a distinctly different woman. Art experts are skeptical. As the BBC reports, Cotte used a technique called Layer Amplification Method (LAM) to analyze the da Vinci masterpiece, which was painted between 1503 and 1517. After … Continued
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No, Da Vinci Wasn’t The First Inventor to Dream About Human Flight
Leonardo DaVinci’s wing and glider designs have inspired literature, art, and cinema over the centuries. But plenty of other people have schemed to take to the air, long before the Wright Brothers. Here are just some of the inventors who devised methods of unpowered human flight…with mixed success. The most famous mythic fliers in the … Continued
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