Here’s Stephen Colbert (out of character) and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson having an 85 minute conversation about science, physics, and the universe.
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Beer o clock has become BUREAUCRACY o clock.
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IBM Puts On A Big Data Viz Show, Streaming Real-Time Data About NYC
But it was still surprising to wander down Broadway late last week and find a 123 x 12 foot digital wall sloping down below street level displaying what looked like a bathtub’s worth of blue LED bubbles draining into the parking garage.
That’s but one image that sparkles across this massive screen, mounted in conjunction with an exhibit celebrating IBM’s 100th anniversary, which visualizes, in real time, the live data streaming from the systems surrounding the exhibit, from traffic on Broadway, to solar energy, to credit card fraud, to air quality—to the amount of water that is systematically leaking from New York’s aqueduct system.
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Awesome Interactive design
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Who decides what you see on the Internet?
The short answer: not you.
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What is Gravity?
I can think of no better way to answer this question than fire and a trebuchet. Thank you, BBC.
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Science video done right.
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This is an excerpt from There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007). 11 adult viewers were shown the video and their eye movements recorded using an Eyelink 1000 (SR Research) infra-red camera-based eyetracker. Each dot represents the center of one viewer’s gaze. The size of each dot represents the length of time they have held fixation.
A fascinating post by Tim Smith, a psychological researcher interested in how viewers watch films can be read here. Here is an excerpt:
The most striking feature of the gaze behaviour when it is animated in this way is the very fast pace at which we shift our eyes around the screen. On average, each fixation is about 300 milliseconds in duration. (A millisecond is a thousandth of a second.) Amazingly, that means that each fixation of the fovea lasts only »
The Most Inspirational Unofficial NASA Commercial Ever
A Youtube user thinks NASA is “the most fascinating, adventurous, epic institution ever devised by human beings”. We agree. That same guy thinks NASA has no idea how to promote itself. So he made this commercial for them. It’s beautiful.
Titled ‘The Frontier is Everywhere’, this fan-made video perfectly combines an eloquent Carl Sagan voiceover from The Pale Blue Dot with timely splicing of poignant images of Earth and outer space. In the end, going to space is as much about looking at ourselves and the current world around us as it is launching a shuttle.
NASA’s current budget cuts obviously make it a bit difficult to focus heavy resources on public relations and social media, but reconnecting the people with the wonder of space, like this video does, should be more important than »
i miss my home and i think palladium boots did a great job with their little series on the beauty of detroit.
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The Goblin Shark
More like a duck billed death machine. What an incredible creature.
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Conan O’Brien introduces his brand new character, that he owns outright.
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EPICponyz: PIXELS by Patrick Jean
This is incredible. WATCH IT.
NYC and retro pixels.
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Let’s make everything we do fun. via VW and branflakesforbreakfast.
Kari…that’s so awesome. How can we make things that are good for you more fun? It doesn’t take much. It’s just rethinking the normality of what we’ve always known and saying why can’t we make this awesome?
In short, we can.
And btw, it was Kari’s first week at Portfolio Center! So proud…
This is a great way to finish off my Friday.
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Tetris is always worth blogging about.
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Underwater Video in the Red Sea (filmed with a Canon 5D Mark II)
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Lester Young – Blues for Greasy
I heard the Lester Young birthday broadcast on WKCR last friday and I’m a better person for it.
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I highly recommend that you watch this. It is an advertisement for scientific research support, and it blends humor and dorkery perfectly.
wingsandfins is right, you should watch this.
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FIRST POST!
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Who Would Iraq Elect, Obama or McCain?
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Haunted House
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