Best Moon Related YouTube Comment Ever…
Hilarious.
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November 27, 2012
Extinction typography #beautiful
Check out this album cover for the Finnish band Burning Hearts. Note how the creatures (all extinct) spell out the name of the album, “Extinctions”.
By Emil Bertell and Kea Bertell, via NotCot.org.
November 27, 2012
Conceptual space colony art from the 1970s: Kinda want to live there.
Address: Toroidal Colonies (in the vicinity of Earth’s orbit)
“NASA commissioned much conceptual work focused on moving people to space, both for habitation and travel. The artwork featured here come from three summer studies by NASA Ames, conducted in California during the 70s. They feature beautifully fantastic landscapes inside massive structures… a vision of a utopian life inside an artificial atmosphere.”
From NASA Ames Research Center, via Visual News (text by Benjamin Starr)
November 25, 2012
Teaching scientific editing – Shrimp Running On A Treadmill With The Benny Hill Theme
Useful when teaching abstract writing (could this wording be any more concise and perfectly descriptive).
Also, it’s a shrimp running on a treadmill with the Benny Hill theme.
November 25, 2012
This here: a solar system necklace
Solar System Necklace, Solar System Bracelet, Earth Necklace and Moon Phase Choker by nappyhappy in Swindon, UK (via Stacy Thinx)
November 22, 2012
Documentation of blackboard activity: a merging of mathematics and art
CERN
Berkeley
Cambridge
Oxford
Stanford
Cambridge
“Since 2010, Spanish artist Alejandro Guijarro has been traveling to several Quantum Mechanics institutions across the globe. He photographs their blackboards that are filled with the mathematical scribblings of some of the greatest minds in the world. The photographer walks into each facility’s lecture halls and proceeds to snap shots of the blackboards without modifying the board or interfering with the original arrangement of the space. The ongoing series titled Momentum presents an honest look at the intellectual scrawls, some of which have been wiped away.”
By Alejandro Guijarro. Text by My Modern Met, via Stacy Thinx.
November 22, 2012
Strapping a camera on a pigeon? Sounds about right.
“Photographing with birds is anything but a new idea. It was actually invented a little over a century ago, in 1907, by a German photography pioneer named Julius Neubronner.
Neubronner worked as an apothecary (i.e. an old-school independent pharmacist) and used carrier pigeons to rush deliver medications to clients. After one of his pigeons returned four weeks late, Neubronner came up with the wacky idea of sticking a camera onto his pigeons in order to glimpse into their activities.”
Text by Michael Zhang at Petapixel. There’s also a wikipedia entry on this topic.
November 22, 2012
I’ve got to get myself a pocket mosquito bar.
Published in The Atlantic Monthly, 1884. Via Futility Closet.
November 21, 2012
Talk about interdisciplinary: Discrete Mathematics with Ducks.
By Sarah-Marie Belcastro. You can actually buy this textbook. Would make for an interesting gift, although I might hold out for “Advanced Discrete Mathematics with Geese.”
November 21, 2012
Beautiful print of Hyde Park birds by Diana Sudyka
By Diana Sudyka, and available for purchase here.
November 20, 2012
Another example of why you sometimes can’t trust your first impressions. The Leaning Tower Illusion. #whoa
“These images are identical, yet the tower on the right appears to lean more. Why?
Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi, and Elena Gheorghiu of McGill University discovered this effect in 2007. Normally parallel towers viewed from below appear to converge with distance; because that doesn’t happen here, the brain infers that the towers are diverging.”
Text via Futility Closet, image from Wikipedia.
November 20, 2012
This animated gif of city lights turning on is pretty to look at.
By Hajin Bae, aka soulist-aurora, on Tumblr
November 19, 2012
Here’s another song I wrote: This one is about climate change, the first law of thermodynamics, and the awesomeness of science.
I don’t know what it is about marking papers, but my brand of procrastination seems to lead to silly creative science pursuits.
And so, here is a song I quickly wrote and laid down some tracks last night. It’s kind of amazing what you can do with the average computer and a decent microphone these days. Hope you enjoy!
Lyrics:
10/3/5/Em
Listen, things are getting warmer
You can call it climate, climate that is changing
Simple in that science, science is the reason
We should take a stand, come up with a plan, listen to
It’s like this, living in a greenhouse
throwing in the air now, burning in the air now
warmer radiation, holding at the station
models add it up, heat is going up.
G A Dm G
CHORUS
Don’t you know It’s science, showing us the numbers
showing us a truth, something we can trust,
Something that we must take hold and move on forward
10/5/7/3
BRIDGE
It’s like this, following the first law
Which is all to say that, that everything is bookkept
Counted and accounted. Following the heat
Following the work, following the state of things
Heat up, means it getting warmer
And with work a storming, moving air and water
Also changing states, melting ice to liquid
Averaging it out, causing thing to shout
CHORUS
Don’t you know…
BRIDGE
Science: it’s not opinion, it’s not like fiction, and not religion. It’s rational, and looks at facts, mistakes are tracked, it looks at evidence.
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