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Science and art and nonsense

My friend Tom left this link on a previous post about science and art: Bathsheba Grossman. I’d looked at her work before, but I don’t think I’d posted it. Science, math and 3D printing- what’s not to like? Another friend, Eric, left an interesting comment on my post about November writing lessons. Eric’s comment, reprinted [...]

Neat stuff

I’ve been accumulating things. Time to pass them on. The Moscow dogs and the Chicago coyotes: fascinating examples of canine adaptability to urban environments. The Moscow dogs have so far done a better job of fitting into urban patterns, possibly because they come from stock selected for dealing well with people over the past few [...]

Seek strange opportunities

The Fraud Police don’t just come after artists.

So anyway

These are the things I had intended to post this morning when I got sidetracked. (By “this morning,” I mean “Monday”, and by “sidetracked,” I mean “completely swamped.” Just so you know.) XKCD has a timeline of future events. SF writers, there’s an entire career’s worth of ideas in here. You have to go there, [...]

Combo pack

My internet was full of remarkably cool things today. This is a wonderful illustration of the “bush of life” (a tree is far too tidy). I love depictions of aspects of science that are both beautiful and meaningful. Somewhat related: the history of scientific illustration (15th – 17th centuries). Using graphics to convey relations: the [...]

Serendipity shows the way

I was stuck on writing fiction this weekend, so I went to the library to look at some books. I found the architectural and city photographs I was looking for. They sparked the desired ideas and motivation. But I also found something else, and it resolved for me a much trickier plot point that I [...]

Rube Goldberg

Band OK Go wins the Internet. (via Topless Robot) Edit: Wired has an article on the making of this video, with videos of its own. It really was done in a single shot!

New Year’s

I rarely cross-post material from my other blog to here – that’s cheating, isn’t it? But rather than rewrite essentially the same material, I’ll copy over the last paragraph of the original post to share with you. My major goal for the year is twofold: make more art; support more artists. I’d like to encourage [...]

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