‘Listening Post’ is an art installation by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.

explore-blog:

Monty Python’s John Cleese almost explains our brains. In more serious – but no less humorous – insight, see Cleese on 5 factors to make your life more creative. 

jtotheizzoe:

Frozen Glass

I was pretty shocked to find out just how little liquid fresh water Earth contains, like we saw in this post. But I was equally shocked to find out that as much as one-fifth of Earth’s fresh water is locked up in the beauty above: Lake Baikal.

Siberia’s Lake Baikal, not only the world’s oldest lake at ~25 million years of age, is the largest single fresh water source on the planet. The water is so deep and so pure that when it freezes it becomes a sort of cold, turquoise glass, giving an observer a lens that can see over 100 feet straight down.

There’s more pictures not to miss at My Modern Met.

science-junkie:

3-D Printed Material Mimics Biological Tissue

For the first time, scientists have printed structures that mimic the texture, consistency and certain properties of biological tissue. The manmade “tissues” are nothing more than water droplets encased in oil, stacked atop one another, but the scientists were able to construct stable structures that held their form for weeks, structures that conducted electricity and even structures that folded similarly to how muscle cells do. 

The researchers used a type of 3-D printer to eject an aqueous solution (water containing some salts) into a bead of oil, which was suspended in more of the aqueous solution. By carefully arranging the droplets, the researchers were able to get them to stick together. In other words “You’re just dropping spheres onto other sticky spheres.” After the “print” was completed, the researchers skimmed off the extra oil, leaving a sturdy, jelly-like structure that somewhat resembled brain and fat tissues.

The research was detailed in this week’s issue of the journal Science.


Source: technewsdaily.com

poorartists:

Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”

endthymes:

larry bell, ‘iceberg and its shadow’  1975

science-sexual:

pangurb-c:

itnever—3nds:

If this doesn’t fit on your blog, you’re doing it wrong.

I never knew how much I wanted this. When I inevitably teach a lot of high school science courses I must use this gif.

of-romano-and-spain:

I’m so sorry for this stupid thing, I-

I saw this and…

michelluarasi:

Random Access Memories

dstroym:

Bras we have known.

a-weeping-angel-just:

canataku:

doctorrdb:

elfofthehootowls:

krazyvince:

philipespinosa:

fuckingshitupsince1996:

gallifreyandownpour:

THERE’S SO MUCH MORE ROOM TO DO EXTRA ACTIVITIES

NOW SOLD AT IKEA.

I literally love it.

:O

Ikea you say… Suddenly It doesn’t look all that safe!!!

i can see myself dropping something from the desk and making whale noises because i have to make an actual effort to get it

but imagine all the bodies you could hide under it!

googlepoet:

www.googlepoetics.com

condoleezza-ricearoni:

pie-sandwich:

Insomnia

whoa