Unearthed from the time capsule, the CBC, Canada’s national public broadcasting channel uploaded to YouTube this televised segment from a 1967 talk show of an angry Hell’s Angel gang member confronting a smoking Hunter S. Thompson following the publication of his book “Hell’s Angels.” It sure was a different time back then: the studio audience’s laughter and applause during their conversation about a domestic violence incident is pretty horrible.

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I’m guessing Waffle House

Josef Schulz has exhibited only once in the US, but that doesn’t mean the Dusseldorf-based photographer hasn’t made his mark in the international art scene. In fact he’s made his mark by removing the marks of big, brand-name companies and showing the form that remains once the logos are gone. “Sachliches,” one of his earliest series, shows what hulking box-like structures big name retail stores really are once their signs are digitally removed. Earlier this year, Schulz debuted his latest series, “Sign Out,” a clever look at fast-food and gas station signage. See if you can guess them all.

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DesignBoom visited Austrian Erwin Wurm’s “Narrow House” on display through September 15 at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. This interactive installation is a fully furnished residence similar to the house the artist was raised in, with one notable difference: as the exhibit’s name suggests the house and all the furnishings and objects within it are literally physically narrow and skinny, which gives everything that funny mirror effect. The installation invites viewers to engage their curiosity by entering the house. I highly recommend you check out more photos of Wurm’s house over at DesignBoom.

Check out this astounding YouTube video of a lightning storm in Rapid City, South Dakota on June 16, 2010 which was recorded at 9,000 frames per second. This was shot by Tom Warner who records and uploads similar videos.

Semi-relatedly: Earlier this month, a 13-year-old boy was struck by lightning at 1:13 pm (or 13:13) on Friday the 13th! And in case you missed it, here’s a video of a tornado MADE OF FLAMES.

Lots of energy news and ideas this week, as well as another big green crowdsourcing project, and reviving wetlands with sewage… your green tech finds.

• Another cell phone sustainability study: Market research firm IDC came up with quite different results on cell phone sustainability from O2… but focused on companies vs. phones themselves. Apple comes out on top in this one, followed by LG and Nokia. (via The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Harnessing gravity power: Gravitational Energy Corporation claims its Feltenberger Pendulum works through hand-power and gravity. The company’s first product, a water pump, could prove indispensable for areas of the developing world, as well as post-disaster relief. See how it’s working in Haiti in the video above…

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Photos by Torben Eskerod and Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen

Direct from Danish design group Dorte Mandrup Architecture, comes the Read-Nest (or, on their untranslatable website, the praefabrikeret studiebox). For the serious bookworm only, the Read-Nest is a prefabricated, private reading room that can be delivered and set up anywhere, from the backyard to the backwoods. Weighing in at just over 30-square-feet, the ready-made reading room comes equipped with a fold-down bed, desk and a wall of shelving space. Constructed of rich brown slats on the outside, the inside comes in birch that can be modified to include outlets to light up those late night reading sessions when you just can’t seem tear yourself away from your book.

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This kinda hilarious photo of a-leaping and a-prancing Michael Cera has emerged above the heap to become the latest Internet meme among bored Photoshoppers around the world. View their collective efforts at this single serve Tumblr site, fuckyeahprancingcera. And a best of here.

When we read that a researcher at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff had released a study claiming that the cougar dating trend is a myth and a media construct, we were ready to buy his argument. After all, we’ve witnessed first-hand — and have occasionally, shame on us, been responsible for — how a so-called trend can get blown out of all proportion for the sake of a sexy headline. So we tend to be more than ready to believe that a much-hyped, now-sitcom-ed trend is actually just hype.

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With the tennis 2010 US Open underway, the New York Times has a gorgeously shot video series, “The Beauty of the Power Game,” directed by Dewey Nicks and featuring top female players smacking the bejesus out of the ball in extreme slow-motion.

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT really stayed with me. As in, I kept thinking about the situations, hearing those characters’ voices, and seeing globs of hair in my own shower drain. (That’s not a spoiler, and hopefully inspiring the curiosity of the disgusting and weird in those who’ve not yet seen the film – only movie I know in which drain hair plays a key role.) And seeing those women, Annette Bening and Julianne Moore. What do I see? Hair on the legs on Julianne, no make up on Annette, wrinkles on both. And you know what? It’s awesome.

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Teens now spend a whopping seven hours per day on various forms of media. So the American Academy of Pediatrics just issued a revised policy statement, “Sexuality, Contraception, and the Media,” in the September 2010 print issue of Pediatrics (published online Aug. 30). In addition to calling for the creation of a national task force on children, adolescents and the media to be convened by child advocacy groups in conjunction with the CDC or National Institutes of Health, it includes updated recommendations for pediatricians and parents on how to deal with this sex-soaked culture. Among the new recommendations since 2001:

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