Mad Quickies: It’s a veritable Monday menagerie!

It’s the Monday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Beloved illustrator, Mary Engelbreit is blasted by fans over Ferguson artwork. {via Kim R.}
• There are about 300,000 sports-related concussions in the U.S. alone each year. Medical science and industrial designers might do well to take some pointers from this post: The Woodpecker’s Guide to Avoiding Head Injuries.
• Whoa. Whale Shark Feeding From Canoe At Oslob, Philippines by Kiwi marine biologist and wildlife photographer Simon Pierce.
• What makes people look like their pets? Surprisingly, the evidence suggests that it’s not about hairstyles, obesity, gender, height, or even hair color. {via Geo}
• A Visual Alphabet-Dictionary of Unusual Words
  offers some wonderful graphic interpretations of some words you probably didn’t even know existed.
• Attention Design Nerdz: Here are 26 famous fonts that are free. Download links included. {via Kim R.}

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It’s Minute Physics!

How Long Can You Balance a Pencil?

Found at Laughing Squid.

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4 Magic Tricks You Can Do With Eggs

from the page

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Featured image is by The Project Twins. The word graphics were originally exhibited at MadArt Gallery Dublin in 2011. That has nothing to do with us here at The Lab but I sure wish it did!

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