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holographic print of downtown Seattle.
building heights in this hologram get up to ~25cm (10 inches).
Click the image to watch the really short but even more amazing video of this in real life.
I’ve said it before and you’re not going to hear me stop saying it soon: holograms aren’t just the shit, they are the future of practically all physical media. (and increasingly more so, the source model for our post-physical creations, too).
(Source: archdaily.com)
(I think) I have discovered my purpose in life.
Through my ongoing honours thesis research, recent film/theory talks with friends, and much brainstorming over the past few months, I have realized the ideas summarized in this video are important enough that I could conceivably devote my entire life to understanding and furthering them.
Yes, I’m probably exaggerating and/or being naïve. Yes, I’ll probably change my mind when I learn of something cooler, or move on to my next learning phase. And yes, I’ve probably jinxed it by writing an overindulgent blog post about it. But for right now, this shit is pure life-worthy.
(Source: video.pbs.org)
World, meet Radiolab.
If you think TED videos are interesting/informative, prepare to be overwhelmed. Imagine all the insight in one TED video compressed down to its main points, then mixed in with the same from all other related TED vids—what you’ll get is equivalent to one Radiolab broadcast.
Radiolab is a podcast out of NY that single-handedly makes the podcast a worthy invention. It’s an hour long show featuring two awesome/hilarious hosts (and their band of merry interns) discussing, story-telling, interviewing, and philosophizing about some of the most interesting topics in life. Here’s a few random titles: Choices, Limits, Numbers, Lucy, Famous Tumours, The Luckiest Lobster, Contact, Who Am I?, Chasing Bugs… the list goes on for another 80 or so.
The one I’m posting now is called “Oops” and it’s the first one I ever heard. Like heroin, it’s a good place to start the inevitable binge into your soon-to-be re-examined life. It’s basically a compilation of really captivating stories about crazy coincidences/mistakes.
After you give it a listen (Warning: you’ll need an hour of uninterrupted attention—you can try doing other things, but it’s so interesting you’ll probably just find yourself sitting, unable to focus on anything but the sweet noise in your ears), you should chat with me about it because I’d love to hear your take on this kind of stuff.
Uh oh. You’ve all heard me talk about how jellyfish are taking over the world. (You haven’t?) Now, here’s a new headline to freak us out:
A type of jellyfish has been discovered that is able to constantly return and (re)grow out of its polyp stage, which is like saying when it turns 50 it starts becoming a toddler again, then growing back old… then young again… etc, forever.
But it’s only one crazy variety of j-fish, right—so what? Well, many other species work in similar manners: when you attempt to fish/kill/remove/pester/laugh at them, they release chemicals which sink to the bottom of the ocean (where their offspring lie dormantly growing like little tree things attached to the rock bed), thereby signalling them that its time to avenge mommy and mature into a full-fledged jellyfish. And they do this hundreds at a time.
So kill 1 six-foot wide jellyfish = Spawn 100 new ones to takes its place. The oceans off Japan (besides being otherwise out of fish) are so clogged with massive jellyfish, it’s making it near impossible to harvest—and what fish do turn up, come in badly stung (and thus unsellable/wasted) because there are pissed off jellyfish caught in the nets too.
