Mad Quickies 8.29

Hey you guys- I’m meeting up with my Mad Art posse at Dragon*Con soon for hijinks in the name of ART! and SCIENCE! Right now I’m busy packing my lab coat, combat boots, Surly jewelry, and Pimm’s, but I took the time to bring you these super-cool Quickies. Because I love ya’ rotten.

• When Mo Farah crossed the finish line, the crowd was so deafening that sound waves caused the photo-finish camera to shake. {via Smashley}
• Out of this world. Literally. Apollo 11 – The First Man on Moon panorama. Includes sound. {via Steve D.}
• Architects design zombie-safe houses. {via Maggie}
• A typeface for doctors by Orion Champadiyil. {via @JohnCmarMD}
• Betty summons a bolt of lightning through the power of prayer and other trippy-as-balls Sunday School comics from the 70s. {via Smashley}
• Samuel Silva draws with ballpoint pens! This must be sorcery! {via Elyse}
• There’s something about Mary…

THERE IS SO MUCH MORE YOU MUST JUMP…

• Silent footage of Armstrong’s close call.
• Schrödinger’s Call Me Maybe. {via Steve D.}
• Cell cake!
• One of Chris Hardwick’s best interviews: Joan Rivers talks with Nerdist.
• Sarah Dickins designed Alto, an intuitive sewing machine, and quite frankly, it’s a wondrous thing of beauty.
• I don’t know how I feel about this topic but it’s still interesting: the story of canned laughter.
• Zombie peanuts. And why not?
• Your mental sorbet: Accidental Mysteries 08.26.12.
• It must have hurt, no?

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Interpolated HD Video of Curiosity Mars Rover Descent Depicts Real-Time Landing

“This is, I believe, the closest approximation ever of what it might feel like to land
on another planet in real time using actual footage.”*

I cannot watch this without becoming verklempt.

*From Colossal.

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Remember that RadioLab show on Color?
And that spectacular aural representation of color perception?

Well, here’s footage of the choir and…

Hallelujah Mantis Shrimp

http://youtu.be/8ZMPRfrszgU

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Featured image is by Al Hartley. It’s an excerpt from his adaptation of
There’s A New World Coming, a downloadable PDF!

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