The above photo was the grand prize winner in 2005. Check out the archives and contest details.
“‘But,’ says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED’”
Renderings of animals in the womb, produced from ultrasound scans and some supplemental computer graphics, will appear on “In the Womb: Animals”, airing Sunday, December 10th at 8 PM eastern (9 PM pacific) on the National Geographic Channel.
(video)
“Back in 1974, an unusual report from Jane Goodall at the Gombe Stream Wildlife Research Centre in Tanzania caught the public eye. Chimpanzees had committed infanticide and were engaging in war. Not only were they acting in unanticipated ways, chimpanzees were acting like humans. Goodall’s discovery bridged the divide between Homo sapiens and other species. (…)”
The tastiest breadcrumbs from an hour-long session watching Louis Armstrong (& Billie Holiday) on YouTube.
A project by Dutch performance artist IEPE (formally B. T. Rubingh), recently on display at the Singapore Biennale.
How much spring is left in your step? On average of course.
The first OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) machine arrived yesterday to the development team in Cambridge, hand built by Quanta over the weekend.
(video: first ~6 minutes of inaugural broadcast)
Here’s a good idea?: a mutual fund based on companies with exceptional user experience — including Apple, EA, Google, Jet Blue, Netflx, Nike, Progressive, RIM, Target and Yahoo.
Ogi Ogas, a 35-year-old doctoral student from Boston University studying cognitive neuroscience, recently appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, putting his graduate studies in learning, memory, and decision-making to the test.
Futuresonic 2006 was back in July so this is a little dated, but I just came across what looks like complete video coverage of Toshio Iwai’s talk and performance. Iwai is a prolific designer of interactive media and most recently, electronic musical instruments.
“I have never in my 30 years as a biologist seen anything like this, in terms of quantity of spiders and quantity of web. Nothing even remotely approaching this.”
Kris Moyes, director.
A shining example of a well-served tag cloud: the complete text of major US presidential speeches since the founding of our country, analyzed for word frequency and presented chronologically showing popular terms and concerns throughout history.
Joanna Newsom’s latest studio release, Ys, comes out the 14th of November and I can say without reservation that it’s the best recording I’ve heard in recent memory. Usually I get bored with albums after several listens which is why I gravitate toward more stream-of-conciousness genres like dnb, classical, jazz, etc; but I’ve played Ys now probably 15 times and its still fresh — her compositions are deceptively intricate, her words enchanting and her voice unique and sincere.
From the people at nobrain, the sequel in spirit to Citroën’s famous “Alive with Technology” spot.
For ladies and dudes alike.
Someone indirectly asked about an image of the universe posted here recently so I looked a little further. Turns out it was the product of the Millenium Simulation: the largest n-body simulation to date, containing more than 10 billion particles and using a computer cluster of 512 processors over a period of 28 days.