silent_stax

//a great silence is spreading over the natural world
//i am the very model of an amateur grammarian
//conservative history of the united states
//magic the gathering is turing complete
//stacking city blocks sidewise
//two-dimensional zoetrope

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

Ghost signs (Basement Geographer)

links/edition/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/)