Mad Quickies 1.9

• Colleague Kalliopi Monoyios announces Neil Shubin’s new book: The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People.
• amphibianArc, inspired by launch pads, created ZoomLion HQ skyscrapers.
• Thanks to Michael Bierut of Pentagram for ensuring that Manhattan parking signs no longer need to be deciphered.
• Cosmic Art Nerdz: Astronomy illustrations circa 1840.
• Scanography here and here and also here.
• Two important questions: Which Monopoly piece will get voted off the board? And which Monopoly piece are you?
• Slick, smart science posters. {via Elizabeth F.}

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• One of the best uses of Pinterest that I’ve seen so far: Fontshop’s best typefaces of 2012.
• Kikkerland’s lovely little Rocket Tea Infuser.
• Here’s something you don’t see in your neighborhood. A flying saucer house, perched on a volcano.
• Science book recommendations from Dean Burnett.
• Brian Butterworth hopes that his number games will help dyscalculic children.

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The Science of Productivity

Found at Brain Pickings.

from the page

Made in collaboration with Sparring Mind, the behavioral psychology blog.

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The ABC of Architects

from the page

This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building.
A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities.
If you love architecture, for more staff you can follow us in ombuarchitecture.tumblr.com

Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez
Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez
Music: The Butterfly from Eugene C.Rose and George Ruble, (Creative Commons)
you can download it here: vimeo.com/musicstore/track/10358

fedelpeye.tv

Here is the alphabetical list We hope you enjoy it.

Alvar AAlto _ Säynätsalo Town hall – Finland
Luis Barragán _ satellite towers – Mexico city
Santiago Calatrava _ Lyon – Satolas airport railway station – lyon France
Luís Domènech i Montaner _ Antoni Tàpies foundation – Barcelona
Eduardo Souto de Moura _ Paula Rego’s House of Stories _ Cascais _ portugal
Norman Foster_ London City Hall _ England
frank Gehry _ Guggenheim bilbao _ Spain
herzog & de meuron _ Beijing National Stadium _ CHina
Arata Isozaki _ Palau Sant Jordi _ barcelona
Philip Johnson _ The Glass House _ New Canaan _ United state
Louis Kahn _ National Parliament of Bangladesh _ Dhaka city
le corbusier _ Villa Savoye _ Poissy, Francia
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe _ barcelona pavilion _ Spain
oscar niemeyer _ National Congress of Brazil, Brasília
Joseph Maria Olbrich _ Secession building, vienna – Austria
César Pelli _ Petronas Twin Tower _ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giacomo Quarenghi _ the Smolny Institute _ St. Petersburg, Russia.
Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers _ Pompidou Centre _ Paris, Francia
Álvaro Siza _ Ibere camargo foundation _ porto alegre _ Brazil
kenzo Tange _ Tokyo Olympic Stadium – Japan
Jørn Utzon _ Sydney Opera House _ Australia
William Van Alen _ Chrysler Building _ New York City
frank lloyd wright _ guggenheim new york _ United state
Iannis Xenakis _ Philips pavilion _ Expo ’58 in Brussels
Minoru Yamasaki _ World Trade Center
Zaha Hadid_The Pierres Vives building _ Montpellier, France

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We’re looking for anything to tide us over until the new season.

Stark Kids beatbox the Game of Thrones opening credits

from the page
Season 2, episode 3 audio commentary opening credits as Maisie Williams (Arya), Sophie Turner (Sansa), and Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran) beat box to the theme song.
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Featured image is Spirals, a Slinky® on a flatbed scanner, by radioheaded.

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