Month: May 2013

  • zoeritts: for Jesse

  • cinoh: © Louise Bourgeois / House. 1984

  • cinoh: © Louise Bourgeois / House. 1984

  • prostheticknowledge: Slogans For The Early 21st Century Novelist, designer and visual artist Douglas Coupland has summed up the uniqueness of the early 21st century—as opposed to the 20th century—succinctly with funny yet thought-provoking slogans.  Reblogged from escapekit (Love Douglas Coupland 🙂 )

  • matthen: A random sequence of points is chosen, then each point moves towards the next one in a loop. Quickly a rotating string of points forms, often in a figure of eight pattern. The string winds tighter, spins faster, and converges on the centre of gravity of the original formation.  [video] [more] [code] 

  • johnrossbowie: Valuable Spanish Phrases from our friends at Duolingo.

  • Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965  

  • kadrey: Game Designer Creates Board Game Meant to Be Played Thousands of Years from Now “American Jason Roher has recently won a game design competition after creating a board game that no one is likely to play anytime in the near future, if ever. Called A Game for Someone, Roher’s game was made from titanium, to stand…

  • […] the problem of nutrient loading into the Mississippi isn’t the methods of commodity-crop farming but commodity-crop farming itself: a system that destroys how water should naturally move from the plains to the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. Chief among those critics is Wes Jackson, director of the Land Institute in Salinas, Kansas,…

  • 6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism

    6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism These six scientists were snubbed for awards or robbed of credit for discoveries … because they were women.