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By JB Sanders<\/p>\n

April showers bring <\/p>\n

Forgotten Bookmarks<\/a><\/Strong>
\nSo this guy works in his family’s used book store, and comes across the strangest things people have stuck in between the pages of the books. As the site puts it: “It’s happened to all of us: we’re reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover.” Fun and weird site.<\/p>\n

Underground Park<\/a><\/Strong>
\nWith sunlight! They pipe it in.<\/p>\n

Leonardo Da Vinci: Still the Man<\/a><\/Strong>
\nThere’s a new exhibition of Leonardo’s anatomy drawings going up this week, and it led to discussions of how accurate those drawings are, 500 years later. The answer? Pretty damned accurate. As one professor of clinical anatomy put it: “Leonardo’s image is as accurate as anything that can be produced by scientific artists working today.” See comparisons of Leonardo’s drawings vs computer renderings of 3D CAT scans.<\/p>\n

Cool Things to do With Sand<\/Strong>
\nAnd a Kinect 3D camera and a projector. The setup uses the Kinect camera to detect the height of the sand, and then calculates and projects a topographic map right on the landscape. Plus you can add in virtual water features, as well. Worth the watch.<\/p>\n