Reuse is always better than recycling
Do you ever check out what’s in the piles of trash set out in your neighborhood on garbage collection day? Around my home, I see an awful lot of good stuff that still has plenty of use in it–people...
View ArticleBreakthroughs in Science
If you keep up with the science notes in your favorite newspaper or magazine, you may already have heard about how some of our space probes aren’t moving through space exactly as predicted. The...
View ArticleHands-on virtual physics lab–it's Phun!
This could be the Coolest science toy ever; check out that video! I know the kids are going to like this kind of thing. You can download the software (it’s beta, so it might not work perfectly; it’s...
View ArticleScintillating grains of sand
If you think sand is just gritty, brownish, and tiny, you’re in for a surprise: Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art is a surprising gallery of extreme closeup photographs of sand from around the...
View ArticleHighway interchange
A set of Japanese interchange photos. This is an awesome set of photographs taken in and around a highway interchange, in Japan. It’s mesmerizing, at least to me–and breathtaking in a strange way. For...
View ArticleStrange Maps
Strange Maps is one of the reasons for the utter awesomeness of the Internets. It’s also one of the reasons I have such a hard time getting work done. If you have any interest in history or politics or...
View ArticleMaps and more places to imagine than you can imagine
OK, here are three links that you might find interesting: Fantasy Cartography is all about maps to places that have only been imagined. In other words, "…a collection of maps from various fantasy and...
View ArticleMan as Industrial Palace
Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace], a poster by Fritz Kahn. Amazing the degree to which this single image has resonated (and continues to resonate) in our culture. The image is...
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