Here’s a description of what the machine featured in this video does: “The HD Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture creates
Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
The next month or two is a really great time to see Saturn in the night sky (esp. if you have a telescope). [syfy.com]
Lora Webb Nichols’ Photographic Chronicle of the 20th Century American West
This is fantastic: for more than 60 years beginning in 1899, Lora Webb Nichols captured and collected about 24,000 p
How Taiwan Held Off Covid-19 (Until It Didn’t)
This video from Vox takes a look at how Taiwan avoided a Covid-19 outbreak for more than a year (and kept total deaths
Five Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
What if the Unvaccinated Can't Be Persuaded? ~15% of Americans just won't do it unless forced and it'll take many month
Philosophical CAPTCHAs
The ship of Theseus image is from Brooks Sterritt and Magritte’s pipe is from Noah Veltman.
Tags: Brooks Sterritt&nbs
Minimalist Creative Funny Photography
Spanish photographers Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda cleverly use landscapes and architectural elements to create mi
How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures You Out
Using dozens of bot accounts, The Wall Street Journal did an investigation and determined that TikTok’s algorithm need
The Twisties
Yesterday, world champion gymnast Simone Biles removed herself from the women’s team final at the Olympics after not do
Two Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
"Two bartenders floated in and out of the conversation, dropping comments like 'what's Covid?' to laughter. Just recent
Visualization of Conservative America’s Vaccine Refusal
Charles Gaba has been graphing the Covid-19 vaccination rates of the 50 states (and DC) against the percentage of peopl
“If It Doesn’t Shine In Your Face, You Don’t See Anything”
As I’ve written before, in the history of astronomy and astrophysics, women have made major discoveries and played a s
Two Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
"Almost everybody still yells at their kids sometimes, even the parents who know it doesn't work. Yelling may be the mo
The Problem of Corporate Solutions to Public Needs
For Vox, Emily Stewart writes about the shortcomings of the, er, system we’ve developed here in America of outsourcing
Nissan Taps Video Game Company for New In-Car Warning Sounds
Car warning sounds urging drivers to buckle up or turn off the headlights can be quite unpleasant to listen to. So Niss
Five Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
A timeline of digital nomadism. The term "digital nomad" was first used in 1997, but the concept originated perhaps as
Winners of the 2021 IPPA Photographer of the Year Contest
The IPPA Photographer of the Year Award is open to photographers who use an iPhone or iPad to take photos, and the w
Stand Here for Dance Party
Since 2001, performance art group Improv Everywhere have been staging events in public, aiming to “surprise and deligh
Four Quick Links for Monday Afternoon
Grace Loh Prasad and her son Devin folded 465 origami cranes during the pandemic, one for each day. "As the number of c
What Comes at the End of a Life?
Jack Thomas has been a journalist for the Boston Globe since 1958 and recently learned he has months to live due to a c
Ignorance and the Curious Idiot
From an interview with the Ted Lasso creative team, here’s co-creator and star Jason Sudeikis on where the idea for the
Two Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Beach reclamation projects in Europe, where offshore sand is dumped on coastlines, are yielding artifacts of lost civil
What Does Space Sound Like?
In this collaboration between musician and filmmaker John Boswell (aka melodysheep) and the sound podcast Twenty Thous
“His Name Was Emmett Till”
This piece by Wright Thompson on how the murder of Emmett Till has been remembered and forgotten is a difficult, compel
Four Quick Links for Monday Morning
4 Reasons I'm Wearing a Mask Again. "The Delta variant is spreading fast, so I'm supplementing the protection offered b
Five Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
The Last Duel, a historical film set in medieval France starring Adam Driver and directed by Ridley Scott? Sure, yeah.
Save Your Mask for the Next Disaster
In what will be an increasingly common occurrence in the years to come, smoke from fires in the western United States a
How to Draw Yourself as a Peanuts Character
In this video, The Snoopy Show storyboard artist Krista Porter and Apple’s Anthony Jackson show us how to draw yoursel
Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
Low Pay, No Benefits, Rude Customers: Restaurant Workers Quit At Record Rate. "It was almost like there was this unplan
What Else Is There to Say About Climate Change?
Sarah Miller, author of this 2019 article on Miami real estate & rising oceans, recently wrote this resonant piece,
The Power of Overthinking
For The Guardian, Annalisa Barbieri wrote Why I’m glad that I’m an ‘overthinker’.
“Just going with it” is not somethin
Two Quick Links for Thursday Morning
The Internet Archive turns 25 years old this year. One of the cornerstones of the open, living web. [blog.archive.org]
Living with Delta
This piece by Susan Matthews is really helpful for those of us who are vaccinated and trying to figure out what their r
Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
High school basketball player Hansel Enmanuel lost his left arm in a childhood accident and it doesn't slow him down on
“It’s Too Late”
Dr. Brytney Cobia treats Covid-19 patients at the Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama, a state that ranks l
Two Quick Links for Tuesday Evening
This is a sobering thread about the realities of Covid & the Delta variant. Vaxxed or no, we're in for a long haul.
Nuclear Powered Game Boy
Using a small quantity of tritium (a radioactive isotope of hydrogen) and a pair of solar panels, Ian Charnas built a
Six Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
This flooding in China is unbelievable – it rained 7 inches in an hour in Zhengzhou (pop. 10 million). [mp.weixin.qq.co
Chess Sets Used by Jews During the Holocaust
From Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, a collection of chess sets used by Jews
Gil Scott-Heron: Whitey on the Moon
Inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing, musician & poet Gil Scott-Heron wrote a spoken word poem called Whitey on
Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Might Still Be Orbiting the Moon
After Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon 52 years ago today in the Lunar Module (aka Eagle), they rode
Two Quick Links for Monday Evening
Kids are using acidic drinks like cola and orange juice to fake positive Covid antigen tests – here's how it works. [th
Three Quick Links for Monday Afternoon
Oh, nostalgia! This site has Print Shop running in an Apple II emulator and it outputs a PDF of your creation when you
Swimming Tentacled Droplets
Well, this is really quite odd. A group of scientists discovered that if they cool ordinary oily droplets floating in
Anti-Social Media
Roxane Gay on Why People Are So Awful Online:
Something fundamental has changed since then. I don’t enjoy most social
Four Quick Links for Monday Noonish
“Cat Person” and Me. "Kristen Roupenian's viral story draws specific details from my own life. I've spent the years sin
The Handshake of Generations
This reading of an excerpt of Andri Snær Magnason’s On Time and Water is a beautiful illustration of the idea of the G
Hilma af Klint, the Life of an Artist
On his Art History School YouTube channel, Paul Priestley gives a short but thorough overview of the life and work of
Four Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
Play Hard Hat Mack, a Donkey Kong remake/ripoff for the Apple II that was Electronic Arts' first video game. [archive.o
Three Quick Links for Friday Noonish
The forthcoming new cookbook from Kenji Lopez-Alt is called The Wok, a book about "the most versatile pan in the kitche
An AI Bourdain Speaks From the Grave
I have been trying not to read too much about Morgan Neville’s documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain be
Carl Sagan in 1978: Star Wars Is Too White
During a Tonight Show appearance in 1978, Johnny Carson asked Carl Sagan about the scientific accuracy of Star Wars. S
Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
A collection of the worst volume control UIs. [uxdesign.cc]
20 simple sauces "that will transform any meal", including
The Perfect Head Stabilization of a Hunting Red-Tailed Hawk
I posted about the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards earlier today, but I wanted to highlight Bill Bryant’s award-winnin
Winners of the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards
The National Audubon Society has announced the winners of the their photography competition for 2021. They also sele
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