Radioactivity Art

Greenpeace photographer Greg McNevin has created a beautiful series of photographs based on walking around areas formerly contaminated by the ongoing Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters with an LED stick connected to a geiger counter. It’s unfortunate that most people won’t be able to see the art past the politics, but I think it has value in both spheres.

SpaceX lands at sea

A little late with the news, but anyway the SpaceX’s Falcon-9 has successfully landed on the drone barge “Of Course I Still Love You”. The landing deck is 170 by 300 feet long, and the Falcon’s legs stand 60 feet apart. As you can see by the whitecaps, the sea was very rough with high altitude crosswinds of 50 mph and low altitude winds of 25 mph.

For true space geeks, the beautifully produced full 18 minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXu_rYF51M

Medieval painted ceilings

There’s actually an international organization, based in France, that studies them.

The site’s all in French, but there are lots of enjoyable and interesting photos if you click around their archives.

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

Humans as explicit elements of a machine; note the electrical connections to the participants forearms.
https://youtu.be/Fn9pvYGQAzs

Bonsai kickstarter

Stephen Voss wants to make a coffee table book of bonsai.

NASA Ames

Mercifully, the whole thing is starting to fade, to become an episode. When I do still catch the odd glimpse, it’s peripheral; mere fragments of mad-doctor chrome, confining themselves to the corner of the eye. There was that flying-wing liner over San Francisco last week, but it was almost translucent. And the shark-fin roadsters have gotten scarcer, and freeways discreetly avoid unfolding themselves into the gleaming eighty-lane monsters I was forced to drive last month in my rented Toyota. — William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum

The photoessay This Used to Be the Future reminded me of a childhood spent reading yellowed 1940s science fiction.

1958 General Motors Firebird III

Mapping 2.4Ghz wifi

As featured on hackaday and more than a few other sites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqqEYz38ens

Dillon Marsh: For what it’s worth

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Medieval Combat World Championship

Reuters has a slideshow of the 2014 Medieval Combat World Championship here.

new discovery in science of blowing up stuff

Alkali metals can react explosively with ​water and it is textbook knowledge that this vigorous behaviour results from heat release, steam formation and ignition of the ​hydrogen gas that is produced. Here we suggest that the initial process enabling the alkali metal explosion in ​water is, however, of a completely different nature. High-speed camera imaging of liquid drops of a ​sodium/potassium alloy in ​water reveals submillisecond formation of metal spikes that protrude from the surface of the drop. Molecular dynamics simulations demonstrate that on immersion in ​water there is an almost immediate release of electrons from the metal surface. The system thus quickly reaches the Rayleigh instability limit, which leads to a ‘coulomb explosion’ of the alkali metal drop. Consequently, a new metal surface in contact with ​water is formed, which explains why the reaction does not become self-quenched by its products, but can rather lead to explosive behaviour.

water droplet included for comparison

Happy Birthday Hubble ST

The Hubble Space Telescope is 25 years old today. Congratulations, Dennis!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MwOCgzQ6M

lego bug racks

Technically tuned to torturing transfixed termites.

Bug rack in use

“We believe the insect specimen manipulators presented here are a valuable addition to any entomologist’s toolbox and that the use of any insect manipulator is in the interest of anyone dealing with valuable specimens as the actual handling of the specimen is reduced to a minimum during examination.”

MMS Separation

See http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ for mission updates!

Bladerunner model builds on imgur

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looking from the top down

Wonderful web site the Daily Overview.

Vauban style star fort by Vincenzo Scamozzi in Palmanova, Italy

it’s also a tumblr, whatever that is.

Inside the Instruments

German studio photographers Mierswa & Kluska shot these beautifully lit images from the inside of musical instruments for Bjoern Ewers and Mona Sibai as part of an advertising campaign for the chamber ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009.

Contrabass
Pipe Organ
Guitar

Tell me I’m wrong

Ben Kingsley on the set of Prince of Persia

Sir Ben Kingsley, noted actor

Anton LaVey from the archives of the church of satan

Anton LaVey, supercilious satanist

Emperor Ming from the Flash Gordon original series

MING THE MERCILESS

Great blog posts on color perception

I was taught in school that when light of a certain frequency strikes your eyeball, you see it as a specific color. This is almost completely untrue.

Jason Cohen talks about the inadequacy of the color wheel.

Jason doesn’t mention it, but the part of your brain responsible for color vision is about the size of a lima bean. (You know these things if you read Oliver Sachs.)

Robert Kosara talks about how the practice of assigning R-O-Y-G-B-I-V values to map data misleads viewers.

Color is a cognitive effect, a subjective phenomenon of the mind, that is influenced by culture and language as well as by gross physical circumstances like lighting and surroundings. The influence goes both ways – not only is our vision mediated by our state of mind, but also vice-versa.

Google Street Art Project

The Street Art Project showcases some of the beautiful ephemeral art that’s been appearing on the walls and public transportation of the world’s cities.
Image courtesy of 5ptz.com
Note some of the most vibrantly beautiful works are found in the most impoverished slums, where it is frequently criticized as glorifying criminals and their activities, but artistically void “tagging” goes on nearly everywhere, rich and poor neighborhoods alike.

The stuff at Five Points in NYC, and just generally the area of Queens near the corner of Crane and Jackson is amazing. People poured their hearts into it.

Inexplicably bad property photographs

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