Month: March 2016

  • What you think about Millennials says a lot about you, nothing about them

    mostlysignssomeportents: Adam “Ruins Everything” Conover was asked to give a keynote to a conference on marketing to millennials, and he brought the house down with an amazing speech about the absurdity of generalizations about generations, and about how all of the generalizations hurled at millennials have been slimed over every other generation, too. Moreover, all…

  • cinoh: Harvard researchers develop a new origami-inspired material that changes shape. Borrowing bits from the Hoberman Sphere and the origami-based concept of snapology, where interlocking strips of paper snap together to create rigid structures, Overvelde and his team at Harvard have created what they call a metamaterial: an expandable structure that can be used on…

  • cinoh: Harvard researchers develop a new origami-inspired material that changes shape. Borrowing bits from the Hoberman Sphere and the origami-based concept of snapology, where interlocking strips of paper snap together to create rigid structures, Overvelde and his team at Harvard have created what they call a metamaterial: an expandable structure that can be used on…

  • The interesting thing about non-tungsten artificial light sources is that they often produce a non-continuous or incomplete spectral output. This can affect the appearance of certain colors under that output. More simply, you can’t really put colors back in that weren’t there to begin with, even by gelling such a light source or color correcting…

  • The interesting thing about non-tungsten artificial light sources is that they often produce a non-continuous or incomplete spectral output. This can affect the appearance of certain colors under that output. More simply, you can’t really put colors back in that weren’t there to begin with, even by gelling such a light source or color correcting…

  • She made up two sets of rules, “monopolist” and “anti-monopolist,” but her stated goal was to demonstrate the evils of accruing vast sums of wealth at the expense of others. A firebrand against the railroad, steel and oil monopolists of her time, she told a reporter in 1906, “In a short time, I hope a…

  • dinosaurparty: miguelmarquezoutside: Sign and spinner – Sydney. Too good.

  • thedigitalmuseum: Art DoppelgängersCharles WalbridgePhotographer, Minneapolis Institute of ArtThe Case Study presentation will include:- scanning the frames in-gallery with free photogrammetry software (123D Catch)- cleaning up the scans for CNC routing- making the reproduction art and frame blanks- carving the frames at Nordeast Makers- finishing the frames- the art out in the world One Small Step:…

  • At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch…

  • At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch…