

Final post (for today!) on reusing books:
The retailer Anthropologie (previously here), known for its wildly creative window displays, put dozens of altered books to use in this store display.
If you’d like to try your hand at making folded-page objects*, check out patterns — hearts! skulls! Christmas trees! — featured on the Rhymes With Magic blog here.
Also, this Sutherland Library video provides simple folding instructions.
(Photos: Top, via Apartment Therapy; center, Rhymes With Magic blog; bottom, Apartment Therapy. Book-folding links spotted previously on Candoodles blog.)
*Note: Unconsumption caveat on using books as raw material.

life:
In 1944, LIFE’s Alfred Eisenstaedt captured a private moment repeated in public millions of times over the course of the war: a guy, a girl, a goodbye — and no assurance that he’ll make it back. By war’s end, more than 400,000 American troops had been killed.
See more photos here.

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Science, You’ve Done It!
We are a mighty species. MIT researchers have developed a nanomaterial coating for ketchup bottles (and other hard to pour substances) that solves one of mankind’s most immense problems: How do you get the stuff out of the bottle??
Behold LiquiGlide, and glance into the future of condiments.
No 57’s were tapped in the making of this video.
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