MaKey MaKey, created by Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum of the MIT Media Lab, is a simple invention kit that allows users to turn everyday objects into touchpads, using the ‘MaKey MaKey,’ alligator clips, and a USB cable.
I think linear relationships are neat.
A rank-ordering of the 237 countries listed here. Rescaling the 2011 population allows most countries to be fit by a stretched exponential distribution (estimated by eye here), which shows as a straight line on the semi-log plot shown here. Note that China and India do not fit on this line due to the King effect.
In mathematical statistics, economics, and econophysics, the King effect refers to the phenomenon where the top one or two members of a ranked set show up as outliers. These top one or two members are unexpectedly large because they do not conform to a statistical distribution or rank-distribution which the remainder of the set obeys well.
What a Physics Student Can Teach Us About How Visitors Walk Through a Museum | Articulations
One of the students in my class, Andrew Oriani, is a physicist who spends much of his time doing mathematical proofs consisting of six or seven pages of equations. (He also has notable visual gifts: as a child he liked to draw elaborate cross-sections of ocean liners). He immediately grasped that the question we were asking was similar to one that comes up in physics all the time. How can one describe the activity of a group of subatomic particles that are moving unpredictably, seemingly erratically, in space? In physics this has become a subdiscipline known as statistical mechanics, and physicists have devised sophisticated tools, such as heat mapping, to describe how particles move in time and where they collect. In essence, physicists have found ways to describe and analyze events that are not specifically predictable, but that, when they’re repeated over and over again, turn out to obey recognizable principles. What would we find, Andrew asked, if we simply mapped the movements of visitors through a museum? What kinds of patterns would we find if we gathered enough data? Could we discern a recognizable pattern that had a shape? What would these patterns of movement reveal about the act of looking? (» more)
Balance the following reaction:
Gummy Bear + KClO3 —> hell
Gummi Bear Dropped Into Potassium Chlorate
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Jerry Gretzinger: Mapping the Void (2010)
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This short and sweet documentary introduces us to Jerry Gretzinger, a guy who draws a giant map of a city with a life of its own. He draws cards to let chance dictate what he adds to the map, changing the city. The amount of time he must have spent on this over the years is amazing. - Mito
fish from Yoann Lemoine’s music video for Drake feat. Rihanna - Take Care
“Who Are You?” (+)
Vogue Germany, May 2012
photographer: Ben Hassett
Kolfinna Kristófersdóttir
in Yves Saint Laurent, Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear
Interview Magazine, March 2012 (+)
photographer: David Burton
in Alexander McQueen
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“Amiamo il Serpente” by Piero Fornasetti
silk and wool hand-knotted rug, 170 cm x 240 cm, from Roubini Rugs (+)
NEOPOLIS, by atelier olschinsky (Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss)
We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!
