Mad Quickies 9.14

Hey, you guys: it’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Important: Check out the awesome limited edition Stronger tee by Maggie, and other Skepchick sale stuff.
• The exhibition Courage Unmasked consists of sculptures incorporating radiation masks.
• The secret canon and page harmony or how art and math make beautiful book layouts. {via Seth H.}
• Analog Interactivity.
• William Gibson on why sci-fi writers are almost always wrong.
• Photo of the day: The New Colossus.
• These are quite possibly the 20 most beautifully illustrated children’s books of all time.

Jump for more!

• Previously unpublished photos of Steve Jobs and early Silicon Valley finally surface.
• Amazing infographic: The Rockwell International Integrated Space Plan.
• One of my favorite take-offs on the Periodic Table: Heavy Metals. Rawk! {via Ed I.}
• Billy is the monsignor’s favorite and other disturbing children’s book titles. Heh. {nsfw, natch.}
• Little known failure: Pavlov’s Cat. {via Anne S.}
• Pascal’s wager with the FSM. {via SurlyAmy}
• Fibonachos. {via Anne S.}
• “I am not a lobster.”
• So this came up on the back channel here at the Lab: Tom Shillue and The Artist Song. {via Brian G.}

Which led us to this first video…

…in part, because we’re big King Missile fans…

I am a sensitive artist.

{via Katie H.}

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Soul of Science by Daniel Martin Diaz
A new series of forty graphite drawings by
Daniel Martin Diaz

Diaz: “My intention with this series is to try and explain deep scientific and
philosophical concepts through art diagrams or Language Art.

Music by Pergolesi

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The Pisa Griffin

Part of the 3D-COFORM Reshaping History exhibition.

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Featured image is from The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers and won the Roald Dahl Award 2008.

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