Happy Birthday! Nikola Tesla turns 156.
Lovely art by Alvaro Tapia, via Hey Oscar Wilde! More from Tesla’s wikipedia page here. Awesome, and of note, on this site: Tesla letterhead. Tesla: Kick…
Read articlePower transmission towers that look like giant human figures
“If we have to live with them, why not turn them into something both functional and artistic? This was the sentiment of American design firm Choi+Shine Architects,…
Read articleThe Higgs Boson Explained. Great video by the creators of PhD Comics.
Definitely worth geeking out to for 7 minutes. Via PhD Comics. —
Read articleWhat is a good teacher worth?
Great piece (and video) by Janet English, a high school teacher and recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching and the…
Read articleUnscientific Anatomy of Sea Life #funny
By Pleated-Jeans (also lots more at the link), via Greg Bole. —
Read articleIf Leonardo Da Vinci were to sketch CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…
… You’d get this: By Sergio Cittolin (CERN research physicist), via Kottke. —
Read articleThe Higgs Boson Walks into a Church…
First: this. “Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.” (Also note…
Read article“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”
Love this quote, and so I had to quickly make a little graphic for it. Image from NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona (source link). Font: Helvetica bold. —
Read articleOn Radiohead, genetics, and bringing up children.
(This is the type of Father’s Day certificate you get when you’ve been playing too much Radiohead.) – – – Lately, I’ve been listening to a…
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