So you like cold drinks, especially in the heat of the summer. You also like large drinks, however, they come at a cost: unless you can drink a superhuman quantity of liquid in a relatively short period of time, your beverage is gonna get warm. This is unacceptable. Enter the “Stein Of Science“. A full metal jacket around a cryostatic dewar with a hefty steel handle.
You know you want one.
Simple, small, wooden, exposed frame, what’s not to love?
Hütte Hut.
A large, semi-sovereign, largely ungoverned urban enclave inside of Hon Kong, Kowloon Walled City was one of the most densely populated plots of land on the planet. Largely build in an ad-hoc, accretive manner over the years before it was finally torn down in 1994. Luckily for those of us who weren’t able to visit before it was destroyed, a group of Japanese researchers scoured the place, creating beautiful dense maps and diagrams of the city published in a book several years later, as well as enough detail to produce a 3D model of the city.
The images speak for themselves:
3d print a lampshade that will project an arbitrary pattern!
Mirror neurons are just the beginning of a whole range of research going on in neuropsychology and brain research and in child development that suggests that we are actually soft-wired not for aggression and violence and self interest and utilitarianism that we are actually soft-wired for sociability ‘attachment’ as John Bowlby might have said affection, companionship, and that the first drive is the drive to actually ‘belong’. It’s an empathic drive.
Empathy is the invisible hand. Empathy is what allows us to stretch our sensibility with another so that we can cohere in larger social units. To empathize is to civilize, to civilize is to empathize.
My God, I want these so badly. Beautiful.
Table Topography: Wood Furniture Embedded with Glass Rivers and Lakes by Greg Klassen.
The pieces are completed with the addition of hand-cut glass pieces that appear to meander through the middle of each table. You can see much more of work here, and several tables are available through his shop.
100 Illustrations of words that aren’t found in the English Language.
Eye in Tuna Care is a work of shameless plagiarism; filmmaker John Walter Lustig stole the idea from a character in a dream.
I love the swarms around 8am and 5pm, though it’s fascinating that people prefer to take the bikes home from work, rather than to work. A fascinating intersection of urban life, technology and art.
If you are going to read one essay about the Sierpinski Triangle, it really ought to be this one.
From what I can tell, one of the settings used to deal with division by 0 is the so-called Riemann sphere, which is where we take a space shuttle and use it to fly over and drop a cow on top of a biodome, and then have the cow indiscriminately fire laser beams at the grass inside and around the biodome. That’s my intuitive understanding of it anyway.
Yeah, you know you wanna get all up in this gasket.
Via:Hacker News
Permanent installation in the atrium of the Connecticut Department of Public Health Laboratory, Rock Hill CT.
SyncroKinetic by Joe Pentland
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