Incredibly clever photo of a light bulb (sort of)
This one would make an awesome slide when talking about energy generally.
By Brock Davis, via Colossal.
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May 7, 2012
This space video is beautiful to watch but also makes me feeling very very small. Stunning mix of Cassini and Voyager footage.
I suggest watching this in HD, on a large screen, and preferably in the dark.
The footage in this video is derived from image sequences from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. I downloaden a large amount of raw images to create the video.
Mixed by Sander van den Berg.
May 7, 2012
Botanicula! Amazing looking video game where the protagonist look like fungi.
Check out the website here.
May 7, 2012
Short lived American bank notes from 1896 depict “Electricity” as a child and then as a pretty awe inspiring adult.
Plus, “Science” makes an appearance! From the Futility Closet.
On the $2 note, Science presents Steam and Electricity (as children) to Commerce and Manufacture. The reverse bears portraits of Robert Fulton and Samuel Morse.
The almost impossibly glorious $5 note depicts Electricity Presenting Light to the World. She is flanked by Strength, Fame, and Peace. The New York Times wrote, “The arrangement of this composition, the grace of pose in each figure, and the idea connected with the designs of this artist entitle it to a place beside the finest allegorical designs in the world.”
Unfortunately, the Treasury got a new secretary the following year, one who favored simple, clear designs, and he canceled more than $54 million in certificates as they came into the Treasury. “It can be said authoritatively … that no more of the so-called ‘new certificates’ will be printed,” the Times reported sadly in May 1897. “Neither will fresco painters be called in to make designs for the substitutes.”
May 7, 2012
Piñata Anatomy: In which we learn that twizzlers make an excellent stand-in for muscle tissue.
Makes the concept of dissection a little disconcerting (as in, let’s open it up by beating the crap out of it).
By the Carmichael Collective, via Colossal.
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