Your guide to life, the universe, and everything interesting in science art this week. Don't panic.
Life
- SciAm's image of the week: the Great hornbill and its bright yellow beak, which is slowly being replaced with an artificial substitute in tribal ceremony to help prevent the bird's extinction.
- Who says watching mold grow has to be boring?
- A collection of jellyfish from last week's roundup led me to more of Alexander Semenov's work with extraterrestrial-looking sealife.
- Judy Kaemon creates the New York Times 'T' from 130 plants.
- Ever wonder what kind of contorted shapes the bugs on your windshield find themselves in? Volker Steger has. (He's also won awards for his science journalism, so I recommend wandering around the rest of his site too.)
- More macro bug photography from Matthias Lenke.
Universe
- In case you want a scaled reminder of our tiny, insignificant place in the universe, this is pretty cool.
- My favorite find of the year, Apollo 17 astronauts just being happy. (Wouldn't you do this if you found yourself on the moon?)
- Artist Yayoi Kusama wonders what infinity looks like, invites you to step into it.
- Will an astronaut always land on his feet? 1960's NASA had curious ways of preparing for the moon.
- Don Pettit puts together a time lapse of Earth with images taken from the International Space Station.
- Sit back, relax, and watch the year's first aurora borealis lightshow.
Everything
- An embroidered heart
- For the philosophers of art out there, animals creating 'art' and humans creating art through their animals.
- OK Go explains the primary colors to the Sesame Street audience; adults like me secretly enjoy it too .
- High speed coffee splash photography for high speed coffee drinkers.
Is there an artsy, fluid dynamic physicist out there who can explain to me the secret method used for that high speed coffee photography?
ReplyDeleteSo far, my only guess is a tiny coffee balloon and a sound-triggered flash. It's killing me not to know.