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What the World Would Look Like If Countries Were As Big As Their Online...
Helloooooo China! The Internet we each see every day is an infinitesimally tiny sliver of the whole—the parts we have curated for ourselves, the parts our network of friends and family sends to us, and...
View ArticleOptical illusion that causes natural “hallucination”
From memolition.com: This video has been carefully designed to create a strong natural “hallucination” — actually a visual effect rather than a brain effect. Use full screen and HD for better results.
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Roentgenium has no uses whatsoever
Element of the week: roentgenium What do unununium and the first ever Nobel Prize in Physics share in common? Image: Cheezburger. This week’s element is roentgenium, which has the atomic symbol, Rg,...
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Czech scientist Jan Evangelista Purkinje’s drawings of the shapes made from...
Czech scientist Jan Evangelista Purknye‘s (1787-1869) made drawings of the shapes “seen” from pushing on his closed eye. He was a proponent of self-experimentation who tested over fifty dangerous...
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Photos From an Arctic Outpost Where Landscapes Are Alien and Dying Is Forbidden
From wired.com: The imposing entrance to the Global Seed Vault. Aurora Borealis lights the sky above the Adventdalen valley. This eight-minute exposure reveals the nearly parallel motion of the stars,...
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Helvetica in Space
From kottke.org: Back in July, Ben Terrett wrote a post about how many instances of the word “helvetica” set in unkerned 100 pt Helvetica it would take to go from the Earth to the Moon: The distance to...
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Fold-up Font Friday
Want a folded paper 3D alphabet? Of course you do! Check out this extruded origami text pattern generator. This free web-based tool generates your text as a fold-up extruded 3D origami model. It’s...
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Phonological Font Friday
An interesting article by UK layman Peter Irons from his blog, “To Read or Not to Read: This Blog will chart the progress of the emergence of the use of computer screen technology to enable more people...
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How to shelter from fallout after a nuclear attack on your city
From io9.com: Expand Terrorists have detonated a low-yield nuclear warhead in your city. How long should you hide, and where, to avoid the worst effects of radioactive fallout? We talked to Lawrence...
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Filament Font Friday
Tesla Font, a Free Font “The inspiration for this typeface was found in the circuitry of lightbulb filament and wiring intricately crossing paths.” DOWNLOAD TESLA ALTERNATE HERE
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Fungus Font Friday
Great shimeji mushrooms font from handmadefont: Mystical mushrooms create interesting letter figures, bringing an original atmosphere to an illustration. Super food can create super designs, give it a...
View ArticleA Selfie on the Edge of Space
By Glen Tickle from Laughing Squid: A recent episode of the series Seeker Stories explains how photographer Christopher Michel was able to take a selfie at the age of space. While on assignment,...
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Le Choléra: Le Petit Journal, December 1, 1912
Click for full-size One hundred and three years ago today, Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper, featured an illustration of cholera, which was decimating the troops of World War I: Death cuts through...
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Flesh Font Friday 2
From A Beautiful Book: On Books, Streets & Migrant Footprints: A beautiful alphabet, from Anus to Tarsals. An anatomical alphabet, made for William Cowpers Myotomia reformata. London 1724...
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Free Tree Font Friday
From Atlas Obscura. Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist’s Invented Tree Font The plants are speaking. Time to read what they have to say. The phrase “about trees,” shown in the font Trees The book...
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‘Fringe’ Font Friday
The TV show ‘Fringe’ aired between 2008 and 2013 on the Fox Network. The series follows members of the fictional Fringe Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, based in Boston, Massachusetts,...
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Ferdinand I Font Friday
A fascinating article about calligraphy for the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, in the waning days of hand-lettered books, from Noor Al-Samarrai at Atlas Obscura. See a Dazzling, Exuberant Renaissance...
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Half-erased blackboards from quantum physics labs
From The Atlantic. The article is from 2012, so a London exhibition of full-size photos is no longer there. But still way cool. The Beautiful Blackboards at Quantum Physics Labs MEGAN GARBER An artist...
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Phonological Font Friday
An interesting article by UK layman Peter Irons from his blog, “To Read or Not to Read: This Blog will chart the progress of the emergence of the use of computer screen technology to enable more people...
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‘Fringe’ Font Friday
The TV show ‘Fringe’ aired between 2008 and 2013 on the Fox Network. The series follows members of the fictional Fringe Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, based in Boston, Massachusetts,...
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