Mad Quickies: #SciArt Storify, Hackaball, Surreal Ceramics, Book Tank, Peeback Time and More!

Dear Marian Call, Alaskan Extraordinaire- how DO you deal with this weather? Because, hello from the still-frozen Northeast. I’d wave, but my fingers have been wrapped around this mug of tea for three months now. I kid. I put the mug down long enough to tap out these Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Quickies.

• Science writer and cancer biology PhD, Beckie Port, assembled her choice of 75 of the best #SciArt in this excellent storify. Thanks, Beckie! {via Brian G.}
• Photographer Allaire Bartel has created a powerful series of images that capture the sexual aggression that women face every day. {via Kelly G.}
• Ceramics is a 27,000-year-old art form but we’ve been seeing a lot of it lately. We love the engagingly beautiful but definitely sinister artist in particular. Here are eight ceramists whose work is gorgeously bizarre. {via Surly Amy}
• I cannot wrap my mind around this but: Hair Freezing Contest! Yes, this is a thing at Takhini Hot Springs in the Yukon and people are urged to post their frosty dos to Takhini’s facebook page. Oh, Canada.
• Hackaball is a throwable computer and it gives kids the power to program their own games.
• So we have to ask, if art is a drug, can you overdoes on it? {ht comment Lauren; link via Courtney}
• Interesting history: How WWI made wristwatches happen.
• What do you get when you convert a 1979 Ford Falcon intoa tank armored with 900 free books? A WEAPON OF MASS INSTRUCTION! The artist is Argentinian Raul Lemesoff and the occasion was <World Book Day.
• Retail find: Kikkerland Robot Tea Infuser.

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How one city has dealt with public urination.
St. Pauli’s Solution
{via Todd D. aka @obsidianspider}
Read all about it here

http://youtu.be/uoN5EteWCH8

from the page
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/04/city-sick-of-drunk-guys-peeing-everywhere-uses-science-to-give-street-pssers-a-nasty-surprise-video/

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Featured image is by Sophie Woodrow.

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