It recently became known to me that two of my favorite webcomics are in league together — like some kind of hideously wonderful coalition of the willing.
The animal — which measures roughly 25 feet (8 meters) long — was photographed 2,950 feet (900 meters) beneath the North Pacific Ocean. Japanese scientists attracted the squid toward cameras attached to a baited fishing line.
The scientists say they snapped more than 500 images of the massive cephalopod before it broke free after snagging itself on a hook.
Airing Tuesday, 11 October, 8-10 PM, is Einstein’s Big Idea: featuring ten prominent physicists — two Nobel Prize winners among them — discussing Einstein’s life, and in particular, his theory of special relativity in terms accessible to non-phycisists.
“Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet’s smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.”
Boards of Canada’s new album, The Campfire Headphase, comes out on the 17th of October. Here’s a pre-release single, etc.
Martin Waugh’s high-speed photography collection of pouring and splashing liquids in motion.
While many fish and amphibians have the ability to regenerate severed limbs and damaged organs, us warm-blooded mammals have never quite managed to swing such a feat … until now. Scientists at the Wistar Institute, an American biomedical research center, have created a mouse with unnatural abilities.
Five volumes of Nu: The Sounds of New Scandinavia are available on iTunes, with four tracks each downloadable for free! Thats 20 songs idiots! Have at!
Specifically, Leslie Feist of Canada. She’s done some live radio performances recently, both of which are excellent — and free to listen/watch.
This is not CG — a beautiful video compiled from images taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft during its 2nd of August Earth flyby.
“Mr. Grey’s painting, with its tantric symbolism, and medical-illustration finesse, might be described as psychedelic realism, a kind of clinical approach to cosmic consciousness.” (Holland Cotter, New York Times)
Maura Davis’s voice is killer — here’s one of my favorites, and a bit more for the curious.
I got to play with one of these alongside one of its developers at SIGGRAPH, and of all the emerging technologies on exhibit, it was definitely the most commercial-ready. He asked me how much I thought it should cost, and I said $150 — he nodded and remarked in what seemed liked agreement, but it could have simply been tactful PR. It’s similar to the map feature in a lot of MIDI software like Logic, though obviously geared around live performance instead of straight composition.
During my visit to LA this summer, I made a trip out to M&A to see Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues’s sculptural/architectural rendition of a celestial black hole, entitled Maximilan’s Schell. (…) Bails of hay underneath the structure served as a welcome place to seek refuge from the blazing LA sun/atomsphere, as the golden mylar filters out a nice chunk of the ultraviolet spectrum, creating an oasis of cool. After my rest I took some pictures (which just got props on Cool Hunting) and shot some low quality video with my digital camera.
Some way, some die. In the name of the Samurai.
“NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Tom Hanks are making an IMAX 3D movie about the Apollo moon landings to give viewers something like the actual experience of being on the moon. Complete with actors playing astronauts, mockups of the Lunar Excursion Module, and fake moon surface…” (via Slashdot)
These guys have sweet jobs …