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It’s Right in Front of You
[Image: unretouched photograph of an anamorphically-painted building interior, by French artist George Rousse; I found it here. As suggested at that site, be sure to see the video about Rousse's "Durham (NC) project." And while you're at it, check out the similar but sometimes entire city-sized work of Swiss artist Felice Varini. I couldn't decide which artist's work to [...]
“The Logic of Irrationality”
[Original image found at the MathWorks site (slogan: "Accelerating the pace of engineering and science"). It seemed too good not to use.] I haven’t read the book in question (Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman), but this book review got it a spot in the queueueueue. Especially this bit: Kahneman’s approach to psychology spurns [...]
PBS: Dogs Decoded
Every dog owner thinks he knows how his or her canine companion thinks. I doubt that many dog owners already know everything covered in this single one-hour program on PBS’s Nova series, (re-)broadcast last night. Here’s a brief intro: Watch Dogs Decoded on PBS. See more from NOVA. Sample tidbit: genetically, via mitochondrial DNA (passed down, [...]
Something in the Air
[Image: at left, all the Earth's water collected into a single ball, about 865 miles in diameter; at right, all the Earth's atmosphere in a single ball, about 1240 miles in diameter, assuming sea-level pressure. (source)] From whiskey river: One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am — a [...]
Make Your World
[Above: an image designed to induce binocular rivalry: an attempt by one's senses to forge a single thing from two conflicting images. See here for instructions on how to use.] From whiskey river: When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that you must take [...]
Knowing What You’re Looking At
[Image: graffiti artist Bansky visited a subway archway in central London, adding a caption to a wall which just happens to fall within the view of a surveillance camera.] From whiskey river: All men, at one time or another, have fallen in love with the veiled Isis whom they call Truth. With most, this has [...]
Spacestruck
[Video: "Golden Record," a "collage/montage" of the contents of the so-called "golden record" sent into space with the two Voyager interstellar spacecraft. For more information, see the note below.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or The Strange Case of the Self, your Self, the Ghost which Haunts [...]
What You Miss When You Don’t Look Up… and Don’t Stand Still
At the page at the Popular Science site where I first saw this video, the author says: The video below was captured by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert. And it might make you cry. What makes this time lapse particularly amazing [...]
