Popular songs as minimalist pictograms by graphic designer Viktor Hertz. Best thing since those pictogram flowcharts of famous lives and minimalist takes on classic fairy tales.
I AM SO TIRED.
TELL ME ABOUT IT. I AM LITERALLY JUST EXHAUSTED, YOU KNOW?
WORN RIGHT OUT.
POOPED. THAT’S WHAT I AM. JUST PLAIN POOPED.
I MUST HAVE LOOKED AT A HUNDRED THOUSAND AVENGERS GIFS IN THE LAST HOUR.
OH MY GOD, I KNOW. I CAN’T EVEN COUNT THE NUMBER OF GOTYE REMIXES I LISTENED TO TODAY.
THE INTERNET IS HARD.
IT TAKES SOMETHING OUT OF YOU. IT REALLY DOES.
OH MY GOD, I TOTALLY FLEW INTO CHRIS EVANS DOWN BY THE RIVER!
GET OUT OF HERE! ARE YOU SERIOUS?
RIGHT INTO HIS ROCK HARD, PERFECT CHEST! I THINK I BROKE MY NECK!
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH! THAT’S SO HOT! DON’T EVER WASH YOUR FACE!
"Mayim Bialik, You Disappoint Me"
She was Blossom. She plays Amy Farrah on The Big Bang Theory. She holds a real-life PhD in neuroscience. There’s a lot to love about Mayim Bialik.
So I was disappointed to find out she doesn’t vaccinate her kids. Refusing to vaccinate is not an individual decision. It affects the whole population. It’s basic epidemiology.
Marziah had this to say on the Wired “GeekMom” blog:
Stop being responsible for the measles or pertussis revivals. Once you blog about it and talk about it on interviews, like the one you did recently for Science Friday, you’re no longer just influencing your friends. It’s no longer a private, personal decision. You’re influencing everyone within earshot. Stop being a disease vector. Stop pretending like the only person affected by your decisions is you. Start acting like the role model you aspire to be.
Someone with Bialik’s influence and credentials shouldn’t be endorsing this kind of behavior. She plays someone very smart on TV, and she should start acting like that instead of sharing a pediatrician with Jenny McCarthy.
I say this because so many of my readers are fans of hers and of her show, and if you believe in science you know that this is wrong.
Oh, Amy. :O
408 Hans Rosling: Religions and Babies
Watching Hans Rosling chase data points across a screen with a huge pointer as he gives breathless play-by-play of statsitical changes will never get old.
In a planet that’s getting increasingly full, we must ask a couple of questions: How can we prepare for tomorrow’s population, whatever it will be? How do birth rates relate to lifestyle around the world?
I’ve heard it said before that certain religious beliefs lead to more children per woman. There’s the stereotype extremes of Latin American Catholics and Northern European athiests. Do they hold water?
Hans takes a look at world religions, average income and family planning and how they relate to birth rates and population growth in the way that only Mr. Rosling can.
I’ll let you watch the details, but controlling population is most certainly about providing more opportunity, not less religion. An instant TED favorite.
(via TED)
Aaaand now I’m obsessed with ferrofluids.
Join the club, Radiolab!
Ferrofluids are a colloid, like mayonnaise, except instead of fat suspended in liquid there’s iron-containing particles that can respond to a magnetic field. The particles are so small that they can remain dispersed in the liquid instead of sedimenting, the way that sand sinks and river silt stays suspended. When a magnetic field and some kind of substructure is applied (here, the cones), you get something amazing.
The peaks and valleys that are created are due to the magnetic field preferring the liquid over the air (something called “normal-field instability”). You get liquid dancing in dimensions that you aren’t used to seeing, and you get the illusion of dancing, dynamic solids growing solely from a black lagoon.
I’m gonna need a minute. This was too cool.
(Source: youtube.com)
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