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Fractal assembly of micrometre-scale DNA origami arrays with arbitrary patterns (click for image info)

for us "tiny" doesn't mean 10 inches by 10 inches, but rather closer to 1 micron by 1 micron -- one hundred times smaller than the width of a human hair. To make tapestries that small, we don't weave with our hands, but rather we design molecules that weave themselves, using single strands of DNA as thread – brambleboy on creating "DNA origami" tapestries smaller than a photon in the Tiny Tapestries thread.

Fantastic by Matt From London (cc by)

• Capitalism and extreme poverty
• Tiny Tapestries
• Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral
• The newest in encabulation technology

For those licking their lips over a new season of The Great British Bake Off, episode one of season 13, "Cake Week," is being discussed in Fanfare.

This thread on the unicode "many-eyed seraphim" multiocular letter O (ꙮ) is heavenly. 👀

I was with Current TV from the launch in 2005 through 2008: Molasses808 remembers the early years of Current TV in poorchanticleer's thread asking about how to find user created shorts from the channel.

Merritt Square Mall, Merritt Island FL by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos (cc by)

Ask Metafilter reveals that there are more devices for Performative Snackery than one might imagine.

floppy disks for breakfast by Blude (cc by)

Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you’d think: great interview link from Etrigan.

Not this kind

This being Ask Metafilter, surely one of you knows how many crickets per square foot there are in my part of the world. Please show your work. – bondcliff

Jessamyn, via jessamyn.info

i have no idea how these people got a librarian wedged into their social media site, or why. * publicinfrastructure.org podcast interview with Jessamyn! (Also discussing on Metatalk)

Queen Elizabeth coronation ceremony, 1953

Queen Elizabeth illness and death discussion is here

A slightly belated congratulations to MeFi's own Languagehat on the twentieth anniversary of his blog.

The Songsmiths Quartet

Great detective work to chase down a vintage musical mystery in Ask Metafilter!