I ask myself everyday. Seriously.
This hypnotic animation shows the rise and fall of Middle Eastern empires over the past 5,000 years, starting with the Egyptians, in 90 seconds.
News of the SS Atlantis’s successful mission to the ISS, setting the international community back on track to complete the station over the next four years and fourteen missions may be old news by now, but have you seen this picture?
Dr. Kim Bostwick captures video of the Red-capped Manakin (Pipra mentalis) “moonwalking”, among other things, to attract attention.
One of my favorite websites, Quantum Biocommunication, has returned in essence under a different name and slightly different format. Dr. Thomas Herold curates the new Dream Manifesto along with his wife Aviva Engel.
Flower-like nanostructures made from zinc oxide at China’s Harbin Engineering University by Yujin Chen et al. can detect ethanol by responding to changes in electrical resistance.
Chris Thile is no stranger to my music library or this website. In the wake of Nickel Creek’s announced “indefinite hiatus” he is actively pursuing new solo work and collaboration (…)
(…) time-lapse video shot in LA entirely with a Canon 20D digital still camera.
“Raised in Tacoma, Washington, Keyes grew up surrounded by forests, and witnessed their decimation by the logging industry. Josh earned a bachelor’s degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. His work has been published in New American Painters and exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.”
NASA’s STEREO mission, launching sometime around the 18th of October, will use two satellites placed ahead and behind Earth’s orbit to obtain stereoscopic images such as these (…)
Flares released by this C-17 Globemaster III form a pattern sometimes referred to as a “smoke angel”, caused by wingtip vorticies spiraling in the aircraft’s wake.
“A typical nest consists of two or three thousand workers and one queen. With these large nests, we may have as many as 100,000 workers.”
Some animations visualizing John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”. One by Michal Levy that takes an artistic approach, and another by Iain Houston that breaks down the song’s signature ditone and quadratone chord progressions.
As summer fades to autumn, hot jams congeal into warm grooves, and Centripetal Notion serves up an hour-long mix of semi-retrospective summer tunes before the weather turns south.