From the BBC Interview for Horizon
‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out‘.
Animated by Fraser Davidson.
Found on: Brain Pickings via Haley Stephenson
Richard Feynman – Ode To A Flower
Visualization of 19th Century Ship Routes from Publicly Available NOAA Data Set
Ben Schmidt, assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, has visualized the routes of 19th Century ships using publicly available dataset from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The resulting image is a hauntingly beautiful image that outlines the continents and highlights the trade winds.
Going Full Tardis: A Composite of the Faces of All the Doctor Who Actors
Inspired by the face research project and the theory that attractive faces are really perfectly average, we wondered what the average of all the Doctors would look like– if in some strange fan fiction, all their DNA were combined to produce the Doctor.
The smarter we make the machines, the closer we make them rivals. -Ralph Baer
Understanding Higgs boson– aka “God Particle”
Yesterday, on July 4th, physicists confirmed the existence of a previously unknown particle which is widely believed to be the Higgs boson particle. Though, a nerd I am, a physicist…
Flicker by Key and Peele
In this short from Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key “two office co-workers engage in a deadly game of deception.”
How to create a 3D model of the surface of Mars using photogrammetry software and NASA Curiosity Rover navcam data
Let’s go to Mars! This video shows how I used Photoscan to generate a 3D model from stereoscopic images taken on Mars by the NASA Curiosity Rover.