Matthew Koch

turquoise ice | Lake Baikal, Russia

In a different take on the income inequality issue, the Economic Policy Institute, in collaboration with Periscopic, created Inequality Is.

The Inequality.is website brings clarity to the national dialogue on wage and income inequality, using interactive tools and videos to tell the story of how we arrived at the state of inequality we find today and what can be done to reverse course and ensure workers get their fair share.

Inequality is: real, personal, expensive, created, and fixable. These are the categories the interactive takes you through to explain the subject. The first part reminds you of the video we saw on wealth distribution, which showed what people thought was an ideal distribution of wealth, what they thought it was in real life, and then what it actually was. However, in this interactive, you're the one answering, which sort of sets the stage for the rest of the interactive. The goal is to make the data more relatable.

Be sure to go through the whole piece. It rounds off nicely with a video explanation with public policy professor Robert Reich and ways to shift the inequality in the other direction.

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What happens when you corrupt A Link to the Past? 

NIGHTMARE FUEL

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GOOD BYE FRIENDS

I AM GONE

I possibly like these a little too much. :D

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Photos of Patrick Stewart doing things.

(All photos: @SirPatStew)

Ha ha, the Picard one.

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These were part of a series of Klein bottles created for the Science Museum in London by Alan Bennett.

About the Klein bottles:

A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions. In the series Alan Bennett made Klein bottles analogous to Mobius strips with odd numbers of twists greater than one.

I want them as internal organs.

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wHAT HAVE I FOUND

I HAVENT LAUGHED THIS HARD IN FOREVER

And then peach was a potion

worldspread before

This shit was so fascinating when I was a kid. I never did convince my mom to get me a Game Genie, but I’d borrow them and sometimes the Nintendo would fuck up in interesting ways.

Owls with cat heads

copper-cloud:

i’m shocked tumblr hasn’t discovered this yet

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genderterrorist:

OH MY GOD

THIS IS SO HORRIBLY PERFECT

I LOVE IT

Always reblog this.

Also, fucking SOURCE, people. http://images.google.com/ has a handy drag-and-drop reverse image search. Don’t be an asshole.

unclewaldo:

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thescurfofworse:

The Potoo - Either the most unphotogenic or the most ridiculous looking bird in the world.

it’s got the kinda beauty that moves.

BABY I WANT HIM

me

Star Trek: TNG Season 3 & The Best of Both Worlds Bloopers

markcareaga:

Freeway Park Seattle

by Lawrence Halprin & Associates, 1976

an incredibly immersive integration of landscape, urbanism, infrastructure, and architecture

photos by markcareaga, December 2008

View this on the map

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THIS MADE ME CRY WITH JOY

This is perfection…

Brilliant.

Was created by the amazing http://sigma7.tumblr.com/

Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.

Each prime number is represented by a bright, white square, whereas a non-prime ("composite") is grey. Visitors can select difference spatial arrangements of these numbers, ranging from several variants of the well-known Ulam Spiral, over the Archimedian spiral, to the more sophisticated 3D Hilbert curves.

Some spirals contain strikingly bright diagonals or arms. One can attempt to select 3 prime numbers within these apparent constellations to highlight a curve ("quadratic polynomial") that fits this numerical combination, and explore how the the according visual pattern changes over the different spatial layouts.

See also:
. On the Pattern of Primes
. Nature by Numbers Movie
- The Visualization of Randomness
- Data Signals on a Spiral
- Ulam Prime Spiral
- Visualizing and Predicting Prime Numbers
- Symmetrical Mathematical Structures
- Number Spiral

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois,

‘Vision of Hell: Orpheus’ ground sculpture at Broughton House, Northants, Kim Wilkie

distant-near:

City, 1970-2013 by Michael Heizer

teratocybernetics:

porpentine:

HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE

im so sorry

This is unexpectedly great. There are no blinkies, very little movement, and a metric fuckload of weird cyberpunk surrealism.

David Bowie and Tilda Swinton

arkthree:

Scarborough College, Toronto by Iqbal Aalam on Flickr.

malformalady:

Abandoned job site, Barbados

A number is said to be perfect if it equals the sum of its divisors: 6 is divisible by 1, 2, and 3, and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6.

St. Augustine wrote, “Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created all things in six days; rather the converse is true; God created all things in six days because this number is perfect, and it would have been perfect even if the work of the six days did not exist.”

Perfect numbers are rare. No one knows whether an infinite quantity exist, and no one knows whether any of them are odd. The early Greeks knew the first four, and in the ensuing two millennia we’ve uncovered only 44 more. But they have one thing in common — they reveal a curious harmony when expressed in base 2:

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i mean what

what the fuck

gustav no

stop it

gustav please

He has an amazing taste in hats

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- Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei