School teaches you that ignorance is shameful, rather than being a person’s default AND ENTIRELY FIXABLE state. Sucks the fun outta learning, if you let it.
I may have posted something to this effect before, but it bears repeating if so: This is a marvelous way of looking at the world, and may be one of the best lessons Randall Munroe has ever taught us. It certainly prompted a change in my own behavior. “You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000″ leads to a lot more fun in life than “What do you mean you don’t know about _____?”
Common sense is something you learned so long ago that you forgot learning it, and it’s extremely regional.
My reaction is usually “You’ve never heard of x thing? OH MY GOSH LET ME SHOW YOU HOW COOL x thing IS THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT”
Google Earth est un outil qui sert également aux artistes. Le photographe argentin Federico Winer sélectionne de magnifiques clichés capturés par les satellites. Des vues aériennes d’aéroports ou encore de villes et paysages sur les différents continents. Pou constituer sa série Ultradistancia il manipule numériquement les clichés pour accentuer les couleurs, la géométrie ou encore les formes.
Dom es un niño de 6 años al que le gusta mucho dibujar. Incluso tiene una cuenta en Instagram donde sube sus dibujos preferidos. Pero esa cuenta es compartida; su papá también la utiliza para subir sus creaciones: reproducciones hiperrealistas de las obras de su hijo.
Animales de todo tipo, coches, bicicletas, personas... inocentes dibujos infantiles que acaban convertidos en seres y artilugios sorprendentes y, en la mayoría de los casos, bastante perturbadores.
Kevin Deldycke has collected a "curated list" of "awesome falsehoods programmers believe in," sorted by subject into meta, business, dates and time, emails, geography, human identity, networks, phone numbers, postal addresses and software engineering.
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Lesser Beasts (Essig) A fun little book on the history of the relationship between humans and pigs. The use of pigs as a tool for conquest (really!) was especially interesting.
Weapons of Math Destruction (O’Neil) This is a great book. O'Neil is a mathematician who went to finance and was appalled by some of the things she saw. The topic of the book in particular is the way we create mathematical models and then become beholden to their weird results, in many areas ranging from finance to education.
We (Zamyatin) A really interesting novel, written in the 1920s, and which may be an early entry in the genre we now think of as Orwellian dystopia. It's one of those books that's both an enjoyable read and an interesting look into historical views of the organization of society.
Arms and the Man (Lowther) Probably the best book on Gerald Bull, whose life I've been really into lately.
The Mind Club (Wegner, Gray) Another great book! This is a book on the philosophy and neuroscience that goes into how humans decided what counts as a conscious mind, and what creatures thereby derive ethical rights. It's not just reporting on what scientists and philosophers think, either - this is a theoretical framework for how we make those judgments.
It's more probable that, if Trump is elected, *both* USA and Russia will start WW3 by trying to conquer Europe.
An ultra-right Russian politician aligned with Vladimir Putin says American voters should elect Donald Trump for president, or prepare for nuclear war. Vladimir Zhirinovsky likes to compare himself to Trump, and is a similarly unrestrained blowhard.
"Americans voting for a president on Nov. 8 must realize that they are voting for peace on Planet Earth if they vote for Trump,” he said. “But if they vote for Hillary it's war. It will be a short movie. There will be Hiroshimas and Nagasakis everywhere."
by Andrew Liszewski on Sploid, shared by Adam Clark Estes to Gizmodo
When you’re caught in a downpour, you never stop to think about the scale of the storm that’s soaking you, you’re just trying to stay dry. But through Mike Olbinski’s timelapse camera, we get a rare glimpse of raging storms from a safe distance, revealing their massive scale, but also their limited reach as they pour rain down on the earth.
by Rhett Jones on Gizmodo, shared by Beth Elderkin to io9
Researchers have successfully beefed up the delicate thread of the silkworm by feeding them graphene, or single-walled carbon nanotubes. You know what that means. Get ready for some silky-smooth wearable tech.
Someone with crafty tiny scissors and some stickers amended this BART priority seating sign for a new batch of under-served groups. Eagle-eye BART rider Deirdre O. spotted this gem and points out, “the guy with the cane has a top hat, and the pregnant person has an alien bursting from her belly. You can’t see it well in the photo, but the alien has dozens of tiny sharp teeth.”
by Andrew Liszewski on Sploid, shared by Adam Clark Estes to io9
The ocean’s already fraught with danger, the last thing you need while swimming is a massive humpback whale deciding it wants to leap out of the water a few feet from where you’re treading water. But that’s exactly what happened to Australian photographer Beau Pilgrim, who fortunately got the whole thing on video.
Few volcanoes are as spectacular as Mount Nyiragongo. Known for its active lava lake and (relatively) frequent eruptions, this incredible volcano has the potential for widespread disaster. Unfortunately, political unrest prevents the scientific community from studying the dangerous volcano in depth. But as seen in these breathtaking images, scientists and photographers have still been able to capture the bubbling, fiery lava that churns within the mountain’s lava lake.
Coffee was first banned in Mecca in 1511 because leaders believed it stimulated radical thinking. And, 16th century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600. But Ottoman leader Murad IV took it even further when he ascended the throne in 1623 by creating the first punishments for drinking coffee, which included beatings and being thrown into the sea.
In 1746, the Swedish government made it illegal to even have coffee paraphenalia, including cups and dishes. And finally, in 1777, Frederick the Great of Prussia issued a manifesto declaring beer’s superiority over coffee because he believed it interfered with the country’s beer consumption.
Tombili: Istanbul cat and worldwide meme honoured with statue
‘Tombili’, a rotund cat beloved by Istanbul’s Ziverbey neighbourhood, has been commemorated by the city authorities after local demand for a tribute to his memory. Tombili - a Turkish word often used for chubby pets - was known by residents of Ziverbey, part of the district of Kadıköy, for his nonchalant demeanour towards people who wanted to play with him. The cat became world famous earlier this year after a photo of him reclining in one of his favourite spots on the pavement was shared thousands of times on social media. Kadıköy’s deputy mayor said in the inauguration ceremony that 17,000 people had demanded a memorial sculpture.
It's been a while since I've fallen down the rabbit hole of a single person's portfolio, but this here is the guy. To say Art Director Tatsuya Tanaka's imagination is fertile is an understatement, and his attention to detail borders on fanatical.
Whereas the designers among us might touch an object and become fixated on a parting line, a unique joinery method or a particularly artful weld, Tanaka sees entire worlds in the tiniest of details, and sets up miniatures to help us see what he sees. Tennis ball seams are biking trails;
a protractor, a blackjack table;
an F1 pit stop where the "F" stands for "Footwear;"
a stack of magazines become nighttime snack stands in Hong Kong.
My favorites are the ones that specifically reference life in Tanaka's home country of Japan. A dishwashing sponge becomes the natural carpet of a hanami (cherry blossom bloomtime picnic);
a tameshigiri practioner produces penne;
a circuit board becomes a partially harvested rice paddy;
Muji notebooks become a cityscape;
Pocky become lighsabers;
a dumpling skin becomes a Sumo ring;
high heels become the entrance to a Tokyo train station.
Which is not to say the non-Japanese-specific ones are not also fascinating.
Most amazing of all is how prolific Tanaka is. Since April of 2011 he has released one new photo a day, every day, in a calendar format. Be careful if you're at work--you can spend hours clicking through his set-ups.
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