Real-Life Emoji And Other Amazing Images From This Week
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The year: 2094. Nuclear war has devastated the planet. Felines have inherited the Earth. One rides on into danger.

Cat Armor

The year: 2094. Nuclear war has devastated the planet. Felines have inherited the Earth. One rides on into danger.
We saw many weird things at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. But we did not see <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/what-the-150-000-attendees-of-ces-are-doing-right-now/282940/">Tablet Man</a>.

Tablet Man

We saw many weird things at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. But we did not see Tablet Man.
Here's a vintage ad from a national anti-smoking campaign. What a butthead! (You see, the ends of cigarettes are called "butts." Ha.) More anti-smoking stuff <a href="https://www.popsci.com/article/science/100-years-smoking-studies-popular-science/?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=3&con=100-years-of-smoking-studies-in-popular-science">here</a>.

Don’t Be A Butthead!

Here’s a vintage ad from a national anti-smoking campaign. What a butthead! (You see, the ends of cigarettes are called “butts.” Ha.) More anti-smoking stuff here.
A little girl wrote <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-10/csiro-makes-brisbane-girl-a-titanium-dragon/5194636">an adorable note</a> to scientists at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation asking for a dragon. So they 3-D printed her a dragon.

3-D Printed Dragon

A little girl wrote an adorable note to scientists at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation asking for a dragon. So they 3-D printed her a dragon.
Using scientific detritus--old pins, magnifying classes, scraps of photos--Michael Mapes recreates beautiful paintings by Dutch masters.

Rebuilt Paintings

Using scientific detritus–old pins, magnifying classes, scraps of photos–Michael Mapes recreates beautiful paintings by Dutch masters.
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Thomas Zakowski takes gorgeous photos of some very cold lighthouses on Lake Michigan. Thomas Zakowski via My Modern Metropolis
Kid version of me would probably watch the hell out of a Snow Shark cartoon.

Snow Shark

Kid version of me would probably watch the hell out of a Snow Shark cartoon.
Andy Lomas, a mathematician and effects designer, created a computer-generated blob that gets more and more complex over time. See a video <a href="http://www.creativeapplications.net/c/morphogenetic-creations-by-andy-lomas/">here</a>.

Morphing Blobs

Andy Lomas, a mathematician and effects designer, created a computer-generated blob that gets more and more complex over time. See a video here.
This is Mount Everest, as seen from space. Look how small it is! Dumb mountain.

Everest From Space

This is Mount Everest, as seen from space. Look how small it is! Dumb mountain.