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May 14
“ NASA scientists are counting down the days to May 25, which will either be all their Christmases at once or worse than a dismissal letter wrapped around a hand grenade. It’s the day the Phoenix Lander descends to the Martian surface. That Phoenix will arrive on Mars is certain - the question is in how many pieces.
May 09
underwater (via tecnicolor*)
May 07
May 06
via memory.loc.gov
May 04
“ Just like some religious folks see Jesus or the Virgin Mary in their cheese sandwiches, I see maps in cloud formations, rug patterns and mud puddles… is there a scientific term for this psychosis?
May 02
May 01
“ Talea is a musical pattern generator utilising a radial graphical system whose process engine is a simple evolving Cellular Automaton. According to its author, Alessandro Capozzo, the title of the work concerns the isorythmic composition practice in renaissance music and so this points to a fascinating confluence of techne both very old and very new. ‘Isorhythm (from the Greek for “the same rhythm”) is a musical technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern’
Apr 30
“ The traditional names for type sizes, like Cicéro, began to appear in France during the 16th century, when they are seen in the bills submitted by punchcutters to their clients and in lists of printers’ stock. No doubt some names like Cicéro and St Augustin were originally a reference to the type used in specific editions of these writers.
Apr 29
“ Over the past two years, as I struggled to write my own novel about physicists and their quest for the Theory of Everything, I often worried that I was falling prey to this stereotype myself. It is incredibly difficult to create fictional scientists who are neither insane villains nor cardboard heroes.