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

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

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

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.

The first page of Great Expectations, as rendered by 70 different designers.

Fata Morgana is a type of mirage that occurs when a layer of cold air bends light downwards, creating a superior-image effect and making it look as though what is below one’s line of sight is actually above it. The name is derived from the superstition that Morgan Le Fey created illusionary castles at sea with which to seduce sailors. More information here and here. (The images above are extremely inaccurate)

November 16, 1973

Dear Mr. McCarthy:

I am writing to you in your capacity as chairman of the Drake School Board. I am among those American writers whose books have been destroyed in the now famous furnace of your school.

Certain members of your community have suggested that my work is evil. This is extraordinarily insulting to me. The news from Drake indicates to me that books and writers are very unreal to you people. I am writing this letter to let you know how real I am.