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Tue, 14 May 2013 10:48:36 -0400

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Wed, 08 May 2013 13:46:32 -0400

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awkwardsituationist: high tide and low tide in great britain....

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:37:58 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael marten

Well isn’t this cool?

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:22:23 -0500

joshsundquist: From my new video: The Oscars for Math...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:16:01 -0500

joshsundquist:

From my new video: The Oscars for Math Nerds

Featuring a graph about each of the nine Best Picture nominees and plenty of snarky movie trivia you can use to impress your friends.

instagram: Panoramic Rainbow Walkway Illuminates ARoS...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:18:44 -0500

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Panoramic Rainbow Walkway Illuminates ARoS Museum

Want to see more? View Olafur Eliasson’s “Your rainbow panorama” through the ARoS location page, the “Your rainbow panorama” location page, and the #ARoS hashtag.

Imagine what it would be like to live inside of a rainbow. That is exactly what Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has created in his rooftop installation, “Your rainbow panorama.” Positioned atop ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, a 10-story art museum located in Århus, Denmark, the elevated walkway yields a spectacular 360-degree view of the city.

Made entirely out of glass with panels in every color of the spectrum, the rainbow installation’s walkway measures 150 meters (492 feet) around. It’s also visible from a great distance throughout the surrounding area, acting as a multicolored compass for those navigating Århus both during the day and at night when spotlights installed in the floor light it up from inside. The project, as Olafur Eliasson explains, inspires a rich dialogue between visual arts and architecture.

Meow

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:11:25 -0500

Meow

youbroketheinternet: lastdonut: One day. Yes

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:03:06 -0500

youbroketheinternet:

lastdonut:

One day.

Yes

youbroketheinternet: GET ON MY FEET

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:20:00 -0500

youbroketheinternet:

GET ON MY FEET

nybg: I just love them. They’re kind of terrifying, but yeah, I...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:06:02 -0500

nybg:

I just love them. They’re kind of terrifying, but yeah, I love them. —MN

thescienceofreality:

A Look at Orchid Mantes by Scott Cromwell

In the first three images [found here] Scott Cromwell skillfully captures an “ignorant fruit fly” perched upon a pink Orchid Mantis’ leg before being grabbed up and eaten. In the last image [found here] a white Orchid Mantis is seen trying to intimidate and threaten it’s own recently molted exoskeleton.

I recently got my motorcycle license. I took a Motorcycle...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:33:48 -0400

I recently got my motorcycle license. I took a Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) class. It basically consisted of five hours of classroom education and then standing in a parking lot for several hours doing figure eights on my motorcycle (well, it’s theirs, but it has my name on it). Fun the first day and a bore the second, but important stuff learned nonetheless. I wish these types of things were mandatory for car-driving licenses.

Rossi and Lorenzo Speaking About Stoner

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:29:59 -0400

Bummed to be losing Casey Stoner at the end of the season. Raw speed…

Lorenzo on Stoner - http://www.motomatters.com/analysis/2012/10/25/2012_phillip_island_motogp_thursday_roun.html

Rossi on Stoner - http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/racing/motogp-summary-friday-australian-gp-2012/#more-36478

nybg: Orchid lovers, time to celebrate; orchid support goes...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:58:18 -0400

nybg:

Orchid lovers, time to celebrate; orchid support goes high design! No more chopsticks and banana clips. Orchid pots finally go the powder-coated steel/minimal design route! ~AR

fastcodesign:

For flowers that are so naturally elegant, domestic orchids are seriously design-challenged. Not the blooms themselves, of course—it’s that unsightly but ubiquitous stick-and-teensy-hair-clip combo that keeps the stems standing tall.

Yeonju Yang, half of London-based studio Yang:Ripol, had been regularly tending to these particular blossoms for almost five years before reaching a kind of creative epiphany.

“It’s funny how sometimes things stare at you in the face for so long until the designer mind clicks in and you realize—here is actually a problem which needs resolving,” he tells Co.Design.

itracing: Sergio Perez, Jenson Button, and Nico Rosberg at the...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:09:51 -0400

itracing:

Sergio Perez, Jenson Button, and Nico Rosberg at the start of the 2012 Korean GP.

I have my favorite. Do you have...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:13:30 -0400

I have my favorite. Do you have yours?

youbroketheinternet:

perfection in evolution

nybg: Colored Honey Made by Candy-Eating French Bees Orange...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:44:46 -0400

nybg:

Colored Honey Made by Candy-Eating French Bees

Orange blossom honey, or clover? Maybe “wildflower.” Or how about the “colorful candy shell” blend? If not for stringent rules dictating that honey, by definition, must be made from plant nectar, you might be facing down this wacko decision right now.

As it turns out, humans aren’t the only ones wrestling with the habit of choosing artificial sweetness over the real deal. Bees, too, are susceptible. And farmers in the north of France found this out the hard way when they discovered their hives plugged up with a kaleidoscope of blue, green, and muddy red “honey.”

Sadly, they weren’t having waking hallucinations. Their bees had decided that open containers of candy coloring from a nearby processing plant put up easier fare than nearby flower fields. But this isn’t exactly a fluke of the natural world, as a batch of blood-red bee juice out of Red Hook, Brooklyn proved in 2010. Maraschino-cherry flavored honey on your ice cream, anyone?

For now, the farmers are saying they can’t sell the colorful stuff; the French laws on the definition of honey preclude them from it. But something tells me the market is there, if only they start advertising to the new gastronomy set of NYC.

I think our own honey bees at the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden do just fine with the real deal at their disposal. Click through for more on the royal blue confection. —MN

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Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:15:33 -0400

thetieguy: i want a shoe rack like this.

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:57:47 -0400

thetieguy:

i want a shoe rack like this.

Brainwashing And The Not-So Impossible

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:01:55 -0500

Brainwashing And The Not-So Impossible:

Nearly finished reading Isaacson’s Einstein biography. Lots of interesting talk in the beginning of the book about how Einstein’s healthy disregard for authority and group-think allowed him to question some of the ‘unquestionable’ findings of folks like Newton. That was his mindset as a young man, and yet as he got older, Einstein became entrenched in his way of thinking and had trouble opening up his mind to quantum physics. While his issue with quantum physics was more philosophical than anything, it does serve as a reminder that continuing to question the status quo is hard work (and were this ability to continually question a muscle, it would need to be exercised on a regular basis).

The attached link is a highly regarded physics discovery that occurred this year, in which scientists used the classic ‘double slit’ experiment to question traditional mindsets (in truth, the results of their work are a bit lost on me ;-)

The book finishes with a description of

Let the grilling begin… (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 08 May 2011 20:25:11 -0400

Let the grilling begin… (Taken with instagram)