It’s the New Year’s Eve Eve edition of the Quickies!
- Lifecycles by Manvir Singh is an illustrated guide to the, well, lifecycles of a diverse group of organisms. This 8-page pamphlet is available for free download!
- An interactive pixelated fireplace for both PC and Mac by Ted Martens.
- At Paleofuture: The Fanciful, Chocolate-Filled World of 2012.
- From the Subversive Finds Department: Hidden Cross Stitched Messages from a Nazi POW. Astounding! {thanks to Geo H}
- Omigosh you guys: Maker xylophones, called lithophones, are made from stone, fossilized coral, wrenches, bolts, floor tiles and more. Videos included.
- HTML5 Cheat Sheets
- The best and worst identities of 2011 according to Under Consideration.
- SPARKLECORN! The meme, the myth, and the legend. {You can blame Cloe and Maggie.}
Film alphabets, fountain pen physics, food, freakonomics, and some film.
- Researchers deconstruct the physics of writing with a fountain pen.
- Stephen Wildish makes something witty or pretty every Friday. Recently he’s created the 1990s Film Alphabet and the 1980s Film Alphabet. How many movies can you guess in these groovy-cool posters?
- So we found this in the archives: Inside the mad science of 7 renegade researchers
- And that led us to this: Microsoft’s Former CTO Takes On Modernist Cuisine is a fascinating post about Nathan Myhrvold
- Which landed us here. At Freakonomics, you can listen to Waiter, There’s a Physicist In My Soup, Part I and Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup, Part 2 {from Maki}
A bouquet of videos for you—
Kooky …
Senseless Drawing Robot
Amazing…
Breaking glass with sound
Sublime…
Hydrogeny
We discovered Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand at Data Is Nature. They are two-thirds of the Amsterdam-based Art–Science Labratory, Optofonica.
In this installation, a white laser sheet scans and illuminates hydrogen bubble trajectories.
