December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
1 post
this guy makes some awesome looking tubes.
October 2011
2 posts
May 2010
3 posts
Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half is possibly the most awesome blog ever. here’s some evidence:
If you find yourself listening to someone else talk for a long period of time, you are going to need something to do with your hands so that you can maintain the appearance of being attentive yet relaxed. Usually, putting your hands in your pockets works beautifully in this situation. But...
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
5 posts
noiseforairports:
Florent Ghys’s “Music for Multiple Basses, and the President of the United States” falls into the category of contemporary composition that I don’t usually blog about, but as it features the President and a title I kind of like, I decided to post it here anyway.
I do really enjoy how musical accompaniment can draw out the rhythmic and tonal patterns in regular speech (and...
Overqualified Is a series of mock cover letters by Joey Comeau, one of the creators of a softer world. Its hard picking one, so here’s is the last one:
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To: Unilever Home and Personal Care Re: Marketing position. Dear Unilever Home and Personal Care company, I am applying for a position in your marketing department, because...
December 2009
2 posts
A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in...
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meltinyourmouth:
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November 2009
7 posts
October 2009
5 posts
September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
11 posts
Strong shock waves in an aluminum (grey atoms) single crystal doped with amorphous copper (yellow atoms) nanoclusters. (from Atomistic study of nanoprecipitates influence on plasticity and fracture of crystalline metals, V. V. Stegailov, A. Yu. Kuksin, G. E. Norman, and A. V. Yanilkin, AIP Conf Proc “Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2007”, 955, 339-342 (2007))
Void nucleation in a single crystal of shock loaded bcc iron (from Structural transformations in single-crystal iron during shock-wave compression and tension: Molecular dynamics simulation, V. V. Stegailov and A. V. Yanilkin, J of Expt and Theoretical Physics, 104, 928-935 (2007))
god this is mesmerizing
Jack: We might not be the best people ..
Liz: But we're not the worst ..
Liz & Jack: Graduate students are the worst ..
Aujourd’hui, quand tu es sur le terrain, on te demande de faire la photo du...
– Bruno Stevens, independent photo reporter on how changing media consumption habits make the reportage disappear. (article in liberation)
July 2009
22 posts