Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies 3.2
It’s the Friday Quickies!
- Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss! Here are 9 facts to know about Theodor Seuss Geisel. {ht by our calendar-keeper Steve D.}
- Those Decorah bald eagles have been gettin’ busy again. And you can now watch the babies hatch again on EAGLE CAM! {thanks to Sarafina M.}
- Funding, exhibition & residency opportunities for artist-scientist collaborations at The ArtScience Call.
- Lichtenberg figures — beautiful sculptural electricity. We have been recommended to check out the galleries at the bottom of the page {thanks to Julianne H.}
- The Smithsonian museum has begun scanning every object from their museum to create 3-D virtual museums. They started with the Hall of Human Origins for a 3D collection of fossils, artifacts, and primates. Venus of Willendorf FTW! {thanks to Maki}
- ROBOT FISH! {thanks to Anne S.}
Lots more stuff!
- Lenses on Biology: An Artist’s Angle – essay from an Undergraduate – Synthetic Biology. {via Steve D}
- Fractal science kit and a gorgeous array of images.
- More bookstore pr0n.
- Julia Oldham weighs the Earth. {thanks to Jen M.}
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What is up with Noises?
(The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch)
Vi Hart rocks. That is all.
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Featured image typography found at Sam’s Etsy store.
The Captured Lightning people keep bringing this sample to one of the local conventions (Capricon), but they never have a sample for sale:
http://capturedlightning.com/photos/Advertising_Aids/Fermi-Lab/T.Johnson_07.jpg
It’s probably better that I can’t be tempted to buy it…