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Science + Art Around the Web
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@ The Institute for Figuring: How to crochet a hyperbolic plane
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Was Monet an accurate astronomer?
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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A world without “blue-sky thinking”: The manifesto of the ever vigilant Cloud Appreciation Society
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
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Nine Extraordinary Clouds Rarely Found In Nature
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
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An Astronaut Confronts Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
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Perhaps the internet is one thing we don’t need to smell.
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
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The Exquisite Corpse of Science
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
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A Gallery of Badass Science Tattoos
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
A Few Thoughts on Decapitation and “Severance”
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
A recent post on the Mindhacks blog reminds me of something I did a little research on a while ago, while reading about Madame Tussaud’s origins during the French revolution. It was about a Dr. Beaurieux, whose notorious experiment in 1905 has made for one of the most interesting anecdotes…
KEEP READING »Advanced Paper Folding 101
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
A few months ago, I went to see a man about some origami. Like many paper engineers, he got his start in greeting cards, getting little holiday scenes to stand at attention by scouring straight lines with an X-acto knife. He handed me his business card. There’s a little drawing of an…
KEEP READING »The Return of the Odor Artist
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
The life of an odor artist is, more often than not, an unfulfilled one. At the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, Swiss engineer Hans Laube premiered a short film he described as a smell-o-drama. Over the next thirty five minutes the auditorium filled with thirty two different odors — roses,…
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