Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies 5.29
- Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl. Excellent story, superb images. nsfw {via Anne S.}
- Tasting Words; DNA Art; Neuroscience on the Small Screen. Art and science topics of note at the NYT. {via Surly Amy}
- This 3-D printed Robohand helps children born without fingers.
- XKCD’s Birds and Dinosaurs.
- What do Bon Farr, Sulu, Tiberius and Red Shirt have in common? They’re Star Trek scents being re-released to coincide with the movie launch. Red Shirt… A cologne to die for?
- What an insider has to say about the myths and truths of the 3-D printing ‘phenomenon’.
- Sound artist Zimoun has mounted a giant new sound installation in an abandoned chemical tank. This is something quite extraordinary. Images and video
- A new iPhone app, NeverLate will nag you to work on time.
- Retail find: Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World.
- Retail find: The Tell-Tale Heart Pendant Choker.
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TIME, GOOGLE AND NASA: Timelapse of the Earth over the last 30 Years
from the page
The story behind the Google and NASA partnership that reveals
How Earth is radically changing over the decades.
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Human Activity Anticipation
Found at Wired: This Robot Learns to Pour Beer by Predicting Your Future
http://youtu.be/xaa_wEkCvG0
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Featured image is Lobster Telephone [also knowns as Aphrodisiac Telephone] by Salvador Dali, 1936. ©Tate. Plastic, painted plaster and mixed media; 178 x 330 x 178 mm. At Design Observer’s A Nod to Surrealism.
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