It’s Okay To Be Smart - Weekly(ish) Highlights
Howdy everyone,
I realized I hadn’t done a highlights post in a while. Someday I will remember to do them every week, maybe if I stop trying to enjoy my weekends so much. Here’s some recent posts I think are cool. Let’s face it, it’s hard to keep up with everything.
I set up a Facebook page for the blog, btw. Go over and like it so if you miss something on your dashboard, you can check it out and show your friends how much fun we’re having!
- This Scale of the Universe explorer will change the way you look at the world and your place in it.
- President Obama turned into a little kid at this week’s White House science fair. Marshmallow Cannon!!
- This online fluid dynamics simulator feels more like an art project than a physics tool, and I like that.
- A new film tells the story of a man with no pulse, and the doctors who saved his life by replacing it with a machine.
- A stunning aurora time-lapse highlighting the recent spike in solar activity. An angry sun leads to a beautiful Earth.
- The Wellcome Trust released a fantastic collection of medical illustration from the past 2,000 years, and I wouldn’t mind framing a few of these.
- The strange and beautiful world of fungi, in mesmerizing macro photography and also in funny animated GIF form.
- OK Go explain primary color theory in stop motion for Sesame Street, and my explainer of how and why we see color the way we do.
- Beautiful science artwork using nothing but paper. First, the mathematical origami of Erik and Martin Demaine, and the quilled paper anatomy of Lisa Nilsson.
- Where that lost sock goes, quantum physics edition.
- Embracing non-traditional paths to science, the #IAmScience movement is inspiring.
- This enormous collection of pocket protectors is like a nerd art museum.
- Mathematics maven Vi Hart explains why Spongebob’s house in NOT a pineapple, how Fibonacci numbers show up in nature, and the animator responds, with changes!
- I hand-pick four videos to teach you about the origin of life on Earth.
Much more in the archive as always. Did I miss any gems?
I don’t have time to read all of this… but I want to SO BADLY…
Reblogging for the hope of more time.
