On 1/15/2022 at 7:10 AM, auxien said:

 

 

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I think that one is still running, a friend of mine went on it last year-ish. Bring back cool shit.

Yeah, I remembered correctly, it's in Wuppertal, Germany. 

  On 1/15/2022 at 2:01 PM, auxien said:

 

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he really makes an effort..

https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

check out those other explain-ariums

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

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Australian Open debuts sound design intervention for blind tennis fans

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/17-23-january-2022/australian-open-action-audio/

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There’s a whole lot of talking going on beneath the waves. A new Cornell study finds that fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than generally thought – and some fish have been doing this for at least 155 million years.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/01/look-whos-talking-now-fishes

check macaulay for additional fishwave fish&chirps

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/516298

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/116488

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/116495

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/118098

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/116423

Fishwave is for the children. Anyway, those recordings were super nice.

  On 2/1/2022 at 9:40 AM, Silent Member said:

Fishwave is for the children

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Flowers discovered perfectly preserved in globs of amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs, suggesting that some flowering plants in South Africa today have remained unchanged for 99 million years, a new study reveals. The two flowers once bloomed in what is now Myanmar and may shed light on how flowering plants evolved — a major episode in the history of life that was once described by Charles Darwin as an "abominable mystery."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-021-01091-w.epdf?sharing_token=i6sQ9FqtGMxSI62oxG14q9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PEhFJvs3SYLX4QwPXc0c8zssxRjukfkGTjkhK4Mf4D-5eo-Itzi4ObI2zWQXOmxpm2lZCP85KZDB3T7D13RrFFeDdkHHXusYLPO_v3nqwYXKyprwRtBQplTwYtom4YZyomMBfI6-Z4ofd0VpRhW4J-8bOBRP9lmIWq3SPxilXXuj3z76MRPuIcMpq1Mx0EFzQ%3D&tracking_referrer=www.usatoday.com

This guy making the natural sciences awesome

... use it in a sentence: can i put my aileron in your freesia?

from this thing

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9

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A collection of manuals for home computers. Manuals include software, hardware, and how-tos.

https://archive.org/details/computermanuals

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058

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Hundreds of people who had retinal implants to improve their sight face an uncertain future as the technology they rely on is now obsolete.

  On 2/10/2022 at 4:21 AM, chenGOD said:

This guy making the natural sciences awesome

 

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Woah, had no idea, absolutely none, about the Zanclean Megaflood. That is absolutely wild. Earth is amazing. 

  On 2/17/2022 at 7:36 PM, luke viia said:

Woah, had no idea, absolutely none, about the Zanclean Megaflood. That is absolutely wild. Earth is amazing. 

doing research on events like that is kinda scary. there's been countless mega floods all over the planet. cataclysmic events that could not be escaped. in north america there was a huge lake like 1200ft deep that was behind an ice dam. the dam eventually weakened due to warming and the dam gave way. so a huge wall of water went from east to west picking up giant boulders, drowning megafauna, moving massive amounts of earth with ice flows that scraped along the ground and created canyons etc.  they know this by finding mass graves of megafauna that died all at the same time trapped in mud or drowned and by the boulder deposits, erosion and other geological info.  this kind of shit happened all over the world at different times and is likely where stories of "the great flood" come from..  the english channel actually formed in a simlar-ish way. there was a land bridge there that eroded and joined the waters. cliffs of dover are made up of same chalky shit on the other side of the channel. there's some good docs on this stuff. earth is indeed amazing!

cataclysms are par for the course in earth's history. i'm sure there will be more.. perhaps even while we're occupying the planet. 

  On 2/17/2022 at 8:00 PM, ignatius said:

doing research on events like that is kinda scary. there's been countless mega floods all over the planet. cataclysmic events that could not be escaped. in north america there was a huge lake like 1200ft deep that was behind an ice dam. the dam eventually weakened due to warming and the dam gave way. so a huge wall of water went from east to west picking up giant boulders, drowning megafauna, moving massive amounts of earth with ice flows that scraped along the ground and created canyons etc.  they know this by finding mass graves of megafauna that died all at the same time trapped in mud or drowned and by the boulder deposits, erosion and other geological info.  this kind of shit happened all over the world at different times and is likely where stories of "the great flood" come from..  the english channel actually formed in a simlar-ish way. there was a land bridge there that eroded and joined the waters. cliffs of dover are made up of same chalky shit on the other side of the channel. there's some good docs on this stuff. earth is indeed amazing!

cataclysms are par for the course in earth's history. i'm sure there will be more.. perhaps even while we're occupying the planet. 

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This could posted in the Social Media thread. Number 1 red flag should have been that the guy looks like a complete tool. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324

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The Zoom call had about 40 people on it - or that's what the people who had logged on thought. The all-staff meeting at the glamorous design agency had been called to welcome the growing company's newest recruits. Its name was Madbird and its dynamic and inspirational boss, Ali Ayad, wanted everyone on the call to be ambitious hustlers - just like him.

But what those who had turned on their cameras didn't know was that some of the others in the meeting weren't real people. Yes, they were listed as participants. Some even had active email accounts and LinkedIn profiles. But their names were made up and their headshots belonged to other people.

The whole thing was fake - the real employees had been "jobfished". The BBC has spent a year investigating what happened.

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MRI scan of someone talking

The most complicated machine ever built is the EUV Lithography machine built by a Dutch company called ASML.

50,000 times a second, the machine hits a 25 micron drop of molten tin that is moving at 70 meters per second with two co-ordinated lasers, the first hit to change the shape of the drop of tin in exactly the right way, the second hit to vaporise it, creating Extreme Ultraviolet Light at the right wavelength to etch chip designs onto silicon at "5nm process" sizes.

More about the light souce -

No one else in the world is able to make these machines. If you buy one it costs $150m and gets shipped to you in forty containers on specially adapted planes. Very few firms have the resources/know how to even run the machines. The best known firm to use the machines is TSMC in Taiwan, who make over half of all the worlds chips and hence make Taiwan a strategically vital country to the worlds economy.

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Honey, He Shrunk The Watches!

A conversation with the man making faithful – tiny – watch replicas from pop culture.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/honey-he-shrunk-the-watches

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JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, but behind the veil of familiarity lie algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file size—but what does that look like? Let's see what our eyes can't see!

https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/