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Once, walking back from school, I found a dead sparrow and took it home with me. My mom screamed when she found it lying on the floor of my pink-and-white bedroom. The bird was buried in the backyard.
Joanna Ebenstein did the same thing when she was growing up, but her dad gave her a bottle of formaldehyde and her bedroom filled with animals in jars. Her collection has only grown since then, becoming what's now the Morbid Anatomy Library: a cramped studio in Brooklyn, New York, filled with emu feet, mummified frogs, a human skeleton, and books upon books about death, medicine and science.
"At a certain age, especially as a girl, one realizes that [death] is seen as sort of creepy or weird, but I never thought it was creepy or weird. I always thought it was interesting," says Ebenstein. "I think children don't make a distinction. Death is just another thing. It's not something to be reviled."
This is the point that Ebenstein and her one-room library are trying to make. Happy developments in the world of medicine have allowed people to live for decades before dealing with death. The unfortunate result, however, is that when the inevitable happens many of us seem flat-out clueless about how to handle it. (This is not true of all cultures, obviously. The Malagasy people of Madagascar deal in an almost ebullient way, dressing up the bones of their ancestors and dancing with them to live music, as part of the Famidihana ritual.)
"I find it really perverse that we live in a society where to discuss death, to have an interest in it, you're called morbid," says Ebenstein. "I've been called morbid my whole life."Ebenstein is anything but. When I visited her last month, I met a woman in her late 30s, bookish and bespectacled with a blonde bob of hair and light freckles, seated quietly in her library while sketching the skull of a deer. Morbid Anatomy is fittingly situated in what appears to the casket-building district of Brooklyn. To get there, one must first pass by warehouses with open doors looking onto walls of stacked coffins, while navigating around grim-looking guys loading them onto trucks. Once inside the library, though, the friendly and articulate Ebenstein will cheerfully direct you to books on pickled heads or charnel houses, should you ask. Death has never had a better spokesperson.
"If you can figure out a way to think about death on a conscious level, for me it has helped me choose a life path that I'm happy with," she explains. "That's why people did memento mori in the Middle Ages. Back then, it had more a religious feeling, but I think the modern interpretation of that is that if you keep thinking that you could die at any time, you make more considered decisions about your own life. I think about this all the time – maybe that makes me morbid, I don't know – but if I could die at any time and if I really want to go to Italy and photograph medical models then I have to do it.
That's exactly what Ebenstein did, and, indirectly, how Morbid Anatomy began. A freelance photographer and designer by trade, in 2007 she went on a month-long pilgrimage across Europe and the United States, photographing medical museums. She returned home, thoughts of death swirling in her head, and began organizing her reams of research on a blog. Then Damien Hirst displayed For the Love of God, his diamond-encrusted skull sculpture and something clicked.
"I just thought this is so interesting, so Zeitgeist-y. He's doing this at the same time that I'm thinking about this stuff. This is something in the contemporary world that I'd like to talk about. And that's how it started and how I did my first post," she recalls. Within days, the blog, signed only with her initials, had circulated the Internet and a friend in the museum world cracked her cover. (The blog now receives close to 3,000 page views per day.) A year later, she moved her books, taxidermied animals and other oddities into a newly available studio and opened her collection to the public. Much of what she documented during her medical museum journey is on display here, like photographs of medical moulages (wax casts of antiquated skin diseases) and beautifully worked models of our inner workings.
The library now has an adjoining event space where curators give talks and classes are held; titles include "Dissection as Studio Practice" and "Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy." The latter sells out weeks in advance to a mainly female crowd, who learn how to preserve small animals with Borax and stage them in miniature tableaus of mice drinking cocktails or wearing dresses.
"Obviously we're interested in the spectacle of death," says Ebenstein, referring to the millions made by exhibits like Body World that display real corpses preserved in plastic. "Obviously people are curious about death and their own bodies and they should be. I think the pendulum is switching back.
"From Meghan O'Rourke's Slate essays on grief (now a book called The Long Goodbye) to Seth Rogen's recent cancer comedy 50/50, death is creeping back into the conversation. Ebenstein has seen that shift take place just in the time since Morbid Anatomy began.
"When I started my blog, I wanted to keep my involvement with it anonymous. I wasn't sure I wanted people I work with to know I was into this creepy stuff," she remembers. "But now, they think it's cool. Really, something major has changed.
"Whether that has meant a significant change in people's ideas about death, Ebenstein can't say for sure. Death might never be fit for the dinner table, but we do ourselves an injustice when we look away entirely.
"I had a grandmother who died a few years ago and she would talk to me about how she wanted to die," says Ebenstein. "She said I was the only one she could talk to about that. It made me sad, but at the same time this is a reality and I was very honoured that she could talk to me about something you're not supposed to talk about."
Laura Trethewey is the assistant editor at Broken Pencil magazine. You can find out more information about Morbid Anatomy's blog.
Photography by Shannon Taggart.


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Defending the Indefensible: Equilibrium and Ghostbusters II happens on Thursday, July 28th at Toronto Underground Cinema. Equilibrium at 7:00pm. Ghostbusters II at 9:30pm. Single film: $10, Double Bill $15. Proceeds to benefit Sick Kids Hospital.
This month our Defending the Indefensible series, where local film critic square off in a cinematic death match, focuses on a special kind of "indefensible" film. Equilibrium and Ghostbusters II are two films that have many vocal supporters who think that both films can be seen as modern classics rather than the box office bombs or disappointments that they were seen as on first glance. These films are actually so well liked that the defenders of these films seemingly have no desire to acknowledge that anyone could ever possibly dislike these films. In truth, both films are by definition critically indefensible and have numerous vocal detractors.
Equilibrium, from writer director Kurt Wimmer (also responsible for Ultraviolet and the screenplay for Law Abiding Citizen), was a film that was largely overlooked at the box office and never actually made a profit upon release. The film, starring a pre-Batman Christain Bale, Taye Diggs, and Emily Watson, was a cross between a heady science fiction film set in a dystopian fascist state (with heavy nods to 1984 and Brave New World) and a Matrix-style action film that introduced a new form of martial arts fighting known as "Gunkata". The film was barely distributed in the United States after sitting on the shelves at Miramax/Dimension for several years without release. It was only screened on just over 200 screens worldwide and never theatrically in Canada. Critics upon the film's release were largely negative upon the release of the film (currently standing at an abysmal 33% on Rotten Tomatoes). The film became more of a success overseas in Europe and on home video where it has amassed quite a cult following.
Ghostbusters II is a lot more well known and a bit of a special case. Released in the summer of 1989, Ghostbusters II became the first ever film to earn over $100 million at the box office and still be considered a disappointment. Upon the film's release, many film critics took the film to task for being a lazy retread of the original and not having as much originality and wit as its predecessor. But for all the people who speak ill of this sequel, just as many praise it for being just as funny as the original film and they don't seem to care that they are watching essentially the same film played out in only a slightly different variation. A lengthy history of the production and comments from both sides of this argument can be found here.
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Thread: the greatest sci fi war
October 24th, 2012, 06:14 PM #1
the greatest sci fi war
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i made a thread a little while ago asking for great space exploration novels.
now im asking, because i will also wamt to read them later, which novels, or series have the greatest sci fi wars, in scale, scope, sheer brutal war.
everyone loves a good galactic war right?
October 24th, 2012, 09:24 PM #2
Well there is the Honor Harrington series which must be about 15 books by now, it spans more than 20 years in the series timeline. It starts off as between the Republic of Haven and and the Kingdom of Manticore but is now involving the Solarian League which includes Earth and hundreds of other planets. It can get very political and not just battles. Sometimes I find that aspect interesting and sometimes it's a bore.
Over all I like the Antares Trilogy by David McCallum better but it is only 3 books. The Harrington character gets annoyingly melodramatic.
The Man-Kzin War series. The Bolo series. Hammers Slammers, but that does not involve many planets as I recall. Haven't checked that out in years.
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2 of my favorites were "In Death Ground" and the sequel, "The Shiva Option" by David Weber and Steve White. Huge, brutal battles. Well written.
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Helium Vs Matai Sheng and everyone else. A Princess of Mars & sequels Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Empire Vs the Rebels. Star Wars etc
The Lensmen Vs Baddies In General. Triplanetary etc. EE Smith
Culture Vs Idirans Consider Phlebas and other Culture novels Iain M Banks
Pretty much anything by Peter F Hamilton
The Forever War Joe Haldeman
Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein
Martians vs. the World War of the Worlds HG Wells (and a million cheap derivatives ever since)
Dune Frank Herbert
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Ming the Merciless Vs Flash Gordon
Federation Vs Romulans/Klingons/Borg
Humanity Vs Cylons
October 25th, 2012, 07:35 PM #5
If I could be so shamelessly bold to suggest Planet Janitor Custodian of the Stars--an epic SF adventure to a hostile planet. Starship Troopers mashes up with Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
October 26th, 2012, 12:52 AM #6
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
October 26th, 2012, 02:55 PM #7
"Prador Moon" Neal Asher. Plus many of his other books have large fights with enormous body counts!
October 27th, 2012, 04:27 AM #8
The Vatta's War and Serrano Legacy series by Elizabeth Moon are pretty epic.
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Knight downplayed the incident in the locker room. "It happens, especially when a team is struggling, even when a team is doing well," Knight said. "It may get heated sometimes, but what happened in here is nothing. "It's guys talking about how we can improve. If we don't address it, we'll never improve. It may involve calling a teammate out. "That's holding each other accountable. And that's what all good teams do. I didn't see today as bickering." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Harrison's stock isn't plummeting; if the draft were held today, he would likely still be a top-10 pick. But NBA executives' love affair with the 6-foot-6, 215-pound playmaker has cooled down. Fortunately, Harrison plays for a coach that has been highly successful developing point guards (Derrick Rose, John Wall, Brandon Knight, among others) and Calipari-coached teams have a history of improving as the season goes on. If Harrison's jump shot improves, he could be back challenging Smart for the nation's top playmaker by the end of the season. SI.com
Andrew Gruman: Brandon Knight will make the trip to Philly. He went through an intense workout just now & says he's feeling better. #Bucks will be cautious Twitter
Drew said point guard Brandon Knight will have his minutes increased after playing 15 minutes against Dallas on Saturday night. Knight had been sidelined with a right hamstring strain. "He's just coming back to us and we want to gradually get him back into a rhythm," Drew said. "Get his conditioning back. We won't log too many minutes on him." Knight will come off the bench Tuesday and rookie Nate Wolters will start, Drew said. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Charles F. Gardner: #Bucks injury report for Tuesday: Luke Ridnour still out; Brandon Knight did not practice; Nate Wolters set to start vs. Cavs on Wednesday. Twitter @cf_gardner
Bucks point guard Brandon Knight will sit out Wednesday night's preseason game against the New York Knicks due to a sore left hamstring. Knight has battled the injury during training camp but played in the first five exhibition games, including a 23-minute stint against the Chicago Bulls on Monday night. "He was talking about it during training camp and at this stage we don't want to aggravate it anymore," Bucks coach Larry Drew said. "With just two exhibition games left, we want to make sure we don't limp into the regular season." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The Bucks have exercised contract options on point guard Brandon Knight and forward John Henson. General manager John Hammond announced the moves this weekend. Knight, acquired from the Pistons in the offseason in the deal that sent Brandon Jennings to Detroit, had his fourth-year option picked up. Boston Herald
Knight averaged a mere four assists a game while playing for the Detroit Pistons last season. That tied him for 38th place in the NBA. Not good. But Knight insists that stat is rather deceiving. "I'm not trying to blame anybody," Knight said while carefully choosing his words. "But the team we had ... It was a tough situation. "When you have shooters, it's easy to get assists because they're going to knock down open shots. We had, maybe, one (Kyle Singler) knock-down shooter. "And I didn't have any bigs who could stop and pop. The only one we had was Charlie Villanueva and he didn't play much. And, when he did play, he was with the second unit so I wasn't playing much with him." Racine Journal-Times
"In the first half of the season, I was playing the point guard position; in the second half, I played off the ball," said the 21-year-old Knight, whom the Bucks acquired July 30 from the Pistons in a trade for disgruntled Brandon Jennings. "So, of course, my assists are going to go down. A lot of people outside looking in ... they look at the stats. But a lot of them didn't know that. "When I started off the season, I was averaging about 5.5 assists and then, when I was moved, it dropped down to 4. I was handling the ball just here and there." Racine Journal-Times
Wall, who recently celebrated his 23rd birthday in New York, looked like he will be ready to go full bore during training camp as he lead his Blue team to a 111-95 victory in a game that also featured NBA players Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Brandon Knight, Patrick Patterson and Terrence Jones. DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe, Wall's good friends and former teammates for one year at Kentucky, were assistant coaches and helped get the most out of him — with a little reverse psychology. "E. Bled told me I wasn't going to get 40, so I went to go get 40," Wall proclaimed to reporters after the game. Washington Post
But while Rose and Wall quickly made their marks in the NBA after leaving college — Rose with Chicago and Wall with Washington — Knight is still searching to make his mark. Some NBA officials wonder if he ever will. Knight begs to differ. Acquired by the Milwaukee Bucks in a multi-player deal with the Detroit Pistons last Wednesday, Knight is extremely confident in his abilities and his potential. "I know I can play with them because I have already," Knight said Tuesday following a press conference at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. "I played against John; I played against Derrick and I know I have the talent and the skill set and the physical stature to play with those guys. "It's not a question; it's just a matter of me going out and doing it. And it's having the opportunity to do so." Racine Journal-Times
Larry Sanders was asked his reaction to Tuesday's trade sending Brandon Jennings to Detroit and bringing 21-year-old point guard Brandon Knight to Milwaukee. "Well, Brandon Knight is a tough player, man," Sanders said. "He plays extremely hard. Every time I've had a chance to play against him, he's been a tough competitor. Sometimes he was out of position, jumping for blocks and stuff, but he don't have to do that no more. He can focus all of his energy up top. I just see me and him having a heck of a pick-and-roll game. Just hounding guys, he's a good defender, so he's going to add an element to our team as far as guard defense up top. And he can shoot the ball well, too, push the ball. A lot of speed. I think he's a great addition to the team." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
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Written by janice headley | Filed under Lilli Carré, events | 24 Oct 2012 3:00 PM |
Now in its third year, our own Lilli Carré proudly co-presents the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, at the Chicago Cultural Center and DePaul University School of CIM. (Plus, the fabulous programs were designed by the great Ivan Brunetti!)
This weekend, Saturday, October 27th and Sunday, October 28th, the festival focuses on abstract animation and unconventional character animation. The festival showcases outstanding experimental animation of all sorts: classic films, new works and rare masterpieces.
Check out a trailer for the event below!
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2012 Preview Trailer from Eyeworks Festival on Vimeo.


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Snooki Offers Pregnancy Advice to Kim Kardashian
Snooki and JWoww dropped by the "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" studio on Wednesday to chat about the season 2 of their reality show, JWoww talks about "Stars in Danger: The High Dive," they comment on the Haylor breakup and Snooki offers some pregnancy advice to Kim Kardashian.
What Pregnancy Advice Does Snooki Have For Kim Kardashian?
"I honestly think she is going to be a great mom, because she's always wanted to have kids. I think her and Kanye are perfect for each other. I just hope that she relaxes and she enjoys it, because once you're not pregnant no one cares anymore. No one caters to you. So when you're pregnant you're a princess, enjoy it."
Snooki Reveals Hot Body After Baby Lorenzo
On The Haylor Breakup:
"They were together for like 2 weeks, right?" Jwoww inquires. "I'm just excited for her song to come out, it's going to be good stuff," Snooki adds.
On Being a Mom:
"It's amazing," Snooki says. "I want another one right now." Why so quickly? "When you have babies, you just want more. You love so much…it's not the right time right now, but I do want 4 kids total," she tells us.
On The New Season of Snooki & JWoww:
"It's an hour long, so you get to see more crazy…but my engagement," JWoww says. "You get to see me 9 months pregnant, giving birth…you don't literally see me give birth," Snooki tells us. JWoww was actually outside the door when Snooki was gave birth. "It was a 27 hour labor. i was there for like 19 hours," she says. "27 hours waiting for him to pop out…but I only pushed 8 times and he was out," Snooki says.
Former 'Baywatch' Star David Chokachi Dishes on Jersey Shore's JWoww
On Stars in Danger: The High Dive:
Did Jwoww have any experience diving? "No. The only experience I have by the pool is drinking Pina Coladas," she tells us. "It's a high dive with Olympic dive medalists. I don't even know how to explain it. You're doing flips off the 10 meters." What was the hardest part for Jwoww? "I'm petrified of live audiences. We had to dive in bathing suits in front of 5000 people with cameras in December of all times to be bathing suit ready."
"Snooki & JWoww" airs Tuesday nights at 10/9 on MTV and you can see "Stars in Danger: The High Dive" tonight at 8/7c on FOX.


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My husband returned from deployment at the very end of March and almost immediately traveled up to Northern Virginia for training. Once the training was completed in May we traveled to Tampa, where he is from, to visit family and friends. We had a really great trip, for the most part. We went fishing out on a boat, checked out the Sunken Gardens in St. Pete and went to a Tampa Bay Rays game with his dad. His mom took the kids on a little shopping spree at Toys R Us and babysat so we could have some adult time with our friends. We went out on our friend's boat and hung out on a little island one day, took all the kids to the park another day, went out for drinks one night, and spent a lot of time swimming and just having an all around good time. Here are a few pics from our trip that already seems like it was so long ago:
The kids with their cousins. |
Turns out the Muckdogs are a minor league team in Batavia, New York. You learn something new every day! He had a really great season. He's definitely come a long way since last year. He hit just about every pitch (the coaches pitch a few times and if the kids don't hit the pitch, then they hit off the tee) and actually caught the ball while playing first base. Any kid catching the ball during a game at this level seems to be a pretty huge accomplishment. He earned the game ball after that game and was quite proud of himself.
Lulu wanted to play, too! |
It's a hit! |
E-Ray and his best buddy being goofballs. |
Getting his trophy and certificate from Coach. |
Also, E-Ray recently began riding his bike without training wheels, so Rick and I bought ourselves a couple bikes at a yard sale so that we could go on family rides. We've only gone once so far, but it was fun, even though I ended up with three ticks on me. YUCK! More often than biking, lately, we've been hiking. My husband had to head back up to Northern Virginia for training, so we have visited him a couple times. I have wanted to go check out Luray Caverns for a long time, so this was a good opportunity to head that way. While researching the area online I read about Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park and decided that would be a really great place to visit as well. We made the drive over there on June 30th and had such an incredible time. Luray Caverns were really neat, but Shenandoah National Park was a real adventure. It is our new favorite place. On that day we were looking at the map they gave us when we entered the park and thought it would be fun to hike down to Dark Hollow Falls. This was a great decision. It was a relatively short hike (it seemed a lot longer than it actually was), and our kids, even the 2 year old, were able to tag along. It was a fairly busy trail. When we got down to the waterfall there were quite a few people swimming in the water and hanging out. The kids loved it and I got some really great pictures while we were there. We loved it so much that we decided to go back on July 4th. This time we hiked down to Lewis Falls. This is a much less popular trail, so we ran into fewer people. This time there was no swimming at the bottom of the falls, but a ledge from which to view them. It was a rockier hike that was slightly more difficult than the previous one, but it was fun. E-Ray is like a little Indiana Jones. He loved leading our little expedition and it was hard trying to get him to slow down so that his little sister could keep up. I can't wait to get back up there again for more family adventures!
Inside Luray Caverns |
My boys climbed up the side of the falls. |
For our second trip I had accidentally left my camera's memory card in my laptop so I had to use my phone for pictures. I was SO mad!!!
Lastly, as we're gearing up for the Hubs to leave on deployment number eight, we took advantage of the great non-profit Operation Love Reunited to have some family pictures taken before D-Day. We were fortunate enough to be able to book the same photographer we used in 2010 for his homecoming on the USS Nicholas. She is so incredibly talented! Here is the first preview of the images she captured:
What did I tell you? A-MAZE-ING! I can't wait to see the rest of the photos. If you're ever in need of a photographer in Hampton Roads, Kimberlin Gray Photography is a must. Be sure to like her page on Facebook.
OK, just one more thing. My husband told me that we could vacation in Wisconsin next Summer. I just wanted to make sure I made a record of that statement since he tends to forget all of our arrangements/agreements. :)


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Posted: Feb 4, 2010 7:06 AM by Andrea Fontenot
Source: Associated Press
A state judge has set a $500,000 bond for the 28-year-old Baton Rouge man accused in the AK-47 shooting deaths of a woman and her son.
An attorney for Jay Winters Jr. says he will push to have the bond lowered.
Winters, charged with two counts of second-degree murder, is accused of supplying alleged shooter 17-year-old Derrick George Gordy with an assault rifle, then driving Gordy and another teenager, 16-year-old Demario Alexander, away from the shooting scene.
Gordy and Alexander also are charged with two counts of second-degree murder.
Forty-year-old Patricia Aldridge and her son, 21-year-old Ronald Thacker Jr., were gunned down Sept. 30 in front of Aldridge's home.


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Second-year Giants CB Prince Amukamara missed Week 1 with an ankle injury.
New York Giants defensive back Prince Amukamara was a first-round draft pick in 2011
Giants receiver Jerrel Jernigan (12) makes a catch with Prince Amukamara (20) covering during training camp.
New York Giants defensive back and 2011 first round draft pick Prince Amukamara.
Katy Perry gets her picture taken with Giants CB Prince Amukamara at Super Bowl XLVI.


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Following on from the new cheaper iMac unveiled on 18 June, Apple has gone to the other end of the spectrum to release a 27in Retina 5K iMac. The impressive new iMac was shown off during Apple's 16 October event alongside the iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 and a new Mac mini. Here, we bring you everything you need to know, including the new iMac's specs, features, UK price and release date.
To discover our first impressions of the Retina 5K iMac, take a look at our hands-on Retina iMac review
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27in Retina 5K iMac release date: When can I buy the Retina iMac?
Surprise! The 27in Retina 5K iMac is available to buy now. Apple opened up orders for the new all-in-one desktop computer immediately after its 16 October event.
You can buy the Retina iMac, as well as the rest of the iMac line-up which remains unchanged, from Apple's online store.
At present, the Apple Store is suggesting that the new iMac will begin shipping within 3-5 days, but we expect that wait time to increase dramatically if demand for the new iMac is high.
27in Retina 5K iMac price: How much does the Retina iMac cost?
The 27in Retina 5K iMac starts at £1,999 for the base model, which has a 3.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, a 1TB Fusion Drive, and AMD Radeon R9 M290X with 2GB video memory.
If you're after the top spec built-to-order Retina 5K iMac, you'll be looking at a price tag of up to £3,515, which gets you a 4GHz quad-core i7 processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB Flash storage (a 3TB Fusion Drive is available too and is a bit cheaper) and even better graphics.
The price of the rest of the Macs in the iMac line-up remain unchanged.
27in Retina 5K iMac: Design
The design of the new Retina iMac is the same as the other iMacs in the line-up, with a super-thin 5mm edge and seamless design despite the brand new display.
27in Retina 5K iMac: Display
The lack of design changes means we can move straight on to the display, which is the real talking point of this incredible new iMac. The 27in Retina display contains a total of 14.7 million pixels (5120 x 2880 resolution). It's made from 23 layers, despite being just 1.4mm thick.
In addition to the impressive new resolution, the Retina display also means blacker blacks and more vibrant colours, according to Apple.
Plus, it uses "highly efficient LEDs" to mean that, even though there are so many more pixels to power, (four times as many, to be presise) it actually uses 30 per cent less power according to Apple.
27in Retina 5K iMac: Specs
Taking a closer look at the new iMac's specs, you'll find a 3.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor inside with the option to upgrade to 4.0Ghz. It's not Intel's next generation Broadwell processor, which we'd originally thought Apple might wait for before launching the new iMac.
However, new Skylack processors are expected to land next year so perhaps Apple will skip Broadwell and go straight for the following generation when it updates the full range of iMacs next year.
Apple offers a 1TB Fusion Drive as standard in the Retina iMac, which means you get fast Flash storage combined with the high capacities of a traditional hard disk. Build-to-order options are available, too.
When it comes to RAM, as mentioned above, you'll get 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM as standard.
The graphics card is AMD R9 290x, with the option of upgrading to AMD R9 295x at checkout, rather than the Nvidia graphics cards found in Apple's other iMacs.
Ports include an SDXC card slot, four USB 3.0 slots, two Thunderbolt ports, a Gigabit Ethernet Jack and the faster Thunderbolt 2, which sets it apart from the other iMacs in the range.
Want more information on the new Macs? Here's the Macworld team discussing the hits and misses of Apple's 16 October launch event, including the Retina iMac:
And see page 2 for everything we wrote about the Retina iMac rumours ahead of its official launch.