Heat graph of PINs; origin is 0000, apex is 9999 (Data Genetics)

iotatrionic_cryptopiratical

//through my window: a million shots from one perch
//writing without words: literary visualizations
//“won’t get fooled again,” entwistle only
//32,000 year-old flower blooms again
//crystral triode, iotatron, transistor
//cryptobiosis and space bears
//Design piracy on Kickstarter
//The rise of Gibbon’s irony

Clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article inevitably leads to the ideas of truth, philosophy, and rationality. Don’t believe it? Try it. An interesting demonstration of nested ideas (and the tendency of Wikipedia articles to begin with a statement of a higher concept to which the item belongs).

Bioluminescent vesicles traveling through a neuron

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Visualizing the 19th century literary genome

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures Curiosity’s chute and pod

links/edition/flash_fix

//does flash photography really damage fine art?
//yes govt researchers invented the internet
//a radical fix for the republic
//blue shift in the night sky
//source sans pro
//bystanders
//headliner

Chris Marker, 1921 – 2012

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/)

internet map

Lightning at 7207 frames per second (Tom Warner)

(Source: http://www.weathervideohd.tv/)

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

links/edition/glory_hut

//El libro que no puede esperar, a book printed with disappearing ink
//Gauthier’s plus beaux édifices de la ville Gênes
//fairy wasps smaller than amoebas
//photographer vs. wild cow
//shackleton’s hut
//scott’s hut

Auroral Acoustics

Researchers investigating auroral phenomena were surprised to hear a “clapping” sound on their recording, which they estimate to have originated during the auroral storm at about 70 meters above the ground. There are stories of the sounds made by the aurora, but it has never before been recorded, if this is indeed real.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Grounded airships

links/edition/minmax

//Smallest fly eats ant brains, then lives inside
//DNA-based dark matter detector
//replacing an IMAX screen
//impossible box
//dig

The shadow of a single atom

links/edition/endangered_players

//bill gates on higher education and technology
//why is literary fame so unpredictable?
//endangered languages project
//rock-paper-scissors-robot
//FTC fail

61 years of tornado tracks

“In translating the gamma-ray measurements into musical notes we assigned the photons to be ‘played’ by different instruments (harp, cello, or piano) based on the probabilities that they came from the burst.” (NASA)

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Shooting 2001

Links/edition/sugar_pill

//.app, .buy, .cash, .deal, .earth, .fail
//History of Astrophotography
//Glucose-powered implants
//YouTube comment ebooks
//The Silencing of Maya

A billion stars in 150 billion pixels

Photos from E3

Shots for msnbc.com’s coverage of the games conference

Message from National Geographic’s Director of Photography

DODGING AND BURNING: Dodging (to brighten shadows) or burning (to darken highlights) is OK, but it should be minimal. Do not overdo it. Your goal in using digital darkroom techniques should be only to adjust the dynamic tonal range of an image so that it more closely resembles what you saw. And don’t oversaturate the color.

SOLARIZATION, MEZZOTINT, DUOTONE, ETC.: No. If you use one of the myriad alteration “filters” available in your digital photo software, please stop.