- Visualization of internet distribution;
- The pinpointed distribution of the unemployed;
- Domino’s Pizza’s raw ingredients’ delivery routes in the Northeast;
- U.S. electricity network routes;
- Traced paths of deceased bodies being transported to their hometowns;
- U.S. imports and exports of beef;
- All the people in America’s towns and cities.
Full episodes of the series can currently be viewed online for U.S. residents only.
◆ 27 Jun 2012 | 11,367 notes
- Visualization of internet distribution;
- The pinpointed distribution of the unemployed;
- Domino’s Pizza’s raw ingredients’ delivery routes in the Northeast;
- U.S. electricity network routes;
- Traced paths of deceased bodies being transported to their hometowns;
- U.S. imports and exports of beef;
- All the people in America’s towns and cities.
Full episodes of the series can currently be viewed online for U.S. residents only.
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◆ 27 Jun 2012 | 11,367 notes
Borrowing from science fiction and fact, Insect Lab customizes real insect specimens with antique watch parts and other technological components.
From ladybugs to grasshoppers, each is individually hand adorned, and original a unique celebration of the contradictions between nature and technology.
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◆ 11 Jun 2012 | 1,355 notes
Space Program: Mars. by Tom Sachs.
The artist and his team of 13 astro-artists spent three years imagining and creating the components necessary for survival, scientific exploration, and colonization on the Red Planet, using readily available new and salvaged materials and sculpted in signature Sachs bricolage.
In addition to a mission control set-up, the show features a food-delivery conveyor belt, an astronaut gym, systems for waste control and a space rover. “Ours is crappy, but that’s why it’s magic” mused the space-obsessed Sachs in a press conference, who first endeavored to explore the final frontier with his 2007 Gagosian show Space Program.
Through Space Program, Sachs’ team, dressed as NASA scientists and astronauts, highlight the artistic process as they use duct tape to continually alter and fix the works.
“Wacky and intoxicating art immersion experiment…”
—Financial Times
Exhibition: May 16 - June 17 - Park Avenue Armory, NYC.
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◆ 11 Jun 2012 | 47 notes
Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms.
In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton conducted a famous experiment that has been widely considered as a landmark discovery in the study of optics and color theory. Inspired by this discovery, PRISMA 1666 is an interactive light installation consisting of 15 triangular crystal blocks distributed randomly on a clean white surface. The projection of colorful graphics is refracted and dispersed by these crystal blocks, creating a fascinating visual experience and ambiance. The installation enables interaction with the projected colors, angles, and shapes through a touch interface, creating an opportunity to experiment with these elements like Isaac Newton did so many years before us.
◆ 11 Jun 2012 | 207 notes
Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms.
In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton conducted a famous experiment that has been widely considered as a landmark discovery in the study of optics and color theory. Inspired by this discovery, PRISMA 1666 is an interactive light installation consisting of 15 triangular crystal blocks distributed randomly on a clean white surface. The projection of colorful graphics is refracted and dispersed by these crystal blocks, creating a fascinating visual experience and ambiance. The installation enables interaction with the projected colors, angles, and shapes through a touch interface, creating an opportunity to experiment with these elements like Isaac Newton did so many years before us.
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◆ 10 Jun 2012 | 207 notes
Its scientific name is Dracula simia, the last part nodding towards the fact that this remarkable orchid bears more than a passing resemblance to a monkey’s face – although we won’t go as far as to be species specific on this one. The Dracula (genus) part of its name refers to the strange characteristic of the two long spurs of the sepals, reminiscent of the fangs of a certain Transylvanian count of film and fiction fame.
The orchid was only named in 1978 by the botanist Luer but is in a family containing over 120 species mostly found in Ecuador. Up in the cloud mountains the monkey orchid can flower at any time – it is not season specific. It scent resembles that of a ripe orange.
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◆ 10 Jun 2012 | 1,121 notes
“George Willis Ritchey (1864-1945) was the prophet and builder of the first large American reflecting telescopes and a master of celestial photography. The largest telescopes in activity clearly demonstrate the validity of many of Ritchey’s predictions, which seemed fantastic if not impossible to most of the astronomers of his day.”
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◆ 26 May 2012 | 293 notes
“Our Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective” is a collection of spectacular satellite images acquired by the Landsat 7 satellite.
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◆ 11 May 2012 | 953 notes
Moss Table generates electricity through Photosynthesis.
Here electricity is generated from the electrons captured by conductive fibers inside the moss table. The technology turns energy that would otherwise be wasted in the photosynthesis process into power that can be put to practical use. (by Biophotovoltaics)
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◆ 4 May 2012 | 2,551 notes
Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A (NASA, Chandra, Hubble, 02/23/11) | NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
◆ 29 Apr 2012 | 970 notes
Huge Solar Flare to Hit the Earth as the Sun Erupts.
- A massive solar flare will hit Earth on Thursday and Friday, bringing with it the threat of power and GPS blackouts but also improving the chance of seeing the northern lights. The burst of charged particles which has been released by the Sun and is rushing towards Earth is the biggest since August and comes as the Sun begins the most active stage of its 11-year cycle. The sun erupts with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle in this NASA handout photo taken on March 6, 2012.
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The charged particles, which will arrive at about four million miles per hour, have the potential to disrupt any magnetic, radio or radiation emissions. This means they could trip out electrical power grids, wreak havoc with GPS systems and disrupt communication systems, putting flight schedules at risk. This image provided by NASA on March 7, 2012, combines observations made by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in several extreme ultraviolet wavelengths, highlighting a bright X-class flare toward the upper left of the sun’s disk on March 6.
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NASA said the first of the two flares on March 6-7 - classified in the potent X class and facing directly at the Earth - was the biggest this year and one of the largest of this cycle known as the solar minimum, which began in early 2007. In fact, it was second only to a stronger one that erupted in August. The sun erupts with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle in this multi-coloured NASA photo taken on March 6, 2012. This flare was categorised as an X5.4.
- This image dated 3 October 2011 shows a quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun.
- This image dated 13 February 2011 shows sunspot 1158 unleashing the strongest solar flare so far, an M6.6-category blast.
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◆ 24 Apr 2012 | 182 notes
The Highest-Resolution Photograph of Planet Earth ever taken.
◆ 23 Apr 2012 | 18,194 notes
Images taken with Hubble telescope
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◆ 20 Apr 2012 | 514 notes
Rosette Nebula & Eta Carinae Nebula by marc4darkskies
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◆ 20 Apr 2012 | 269 notes
