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Collect them all!…

From Spanish illustrator Rafa Toro, a set of 80 “monstrous” trading cards, including, for example:

Bride

Find the whole collection (and your inspiration for that Lucha Libre outfit) here.

As we struggle to control our shivering, we might console ourselves by wishing a joyeux anniversaire to Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, physicist, theologian, and inventor (e.g.,the first digital calculator, the barometer, the hydraulic press, and the syringe), born this date in 1623. His commitment to empiricism (“Experiments are the true teachers which one must follow in physics”) pitted him against his contemporary René “Cogito, ergo sum” Descartes…

Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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June 19, 2008 at 1:01 am

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