Monthly Archives: August 2021

Streetart – Skio @ Trélazé, France

Skio @ Trélazé, France Location: Trélazé, France Artist: Skio (France) For: La Rezidence Photo Credits: Mari Motte USEFUL LINKS: Skio in this blog | … Streetart – Skio @ Trélazé, France

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Ducks, Otters, and Other Wildlife Plunge into Water in Intricate Split-View Embroideries | Colossal

AUGUST 13, 2021 GRACE EBERT Fiber artist Megan Zaniewski sends delicate air bubbles rippling through her water-based embroideries that capture the momentum of ducks, turtles, and other wildlife as they dive into a pond or lake. Through a combination of knots … Continue reading

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Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?

[…] It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself – … Continue reading

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Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos

My PhD: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/… It is a common view that “if only someone could break this down and explain it clearly enough, more students would understand.” Khan Academy is a great example of this approach with its clear, concise videos on … Continue reading

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Why you can expect to live past your life expectancy

This is our submission to the #VeritasiumContest Length restriction is one minute, so apologies for the brevity. I’ll have a longer video about life expectancy and how COVID affected it later. Info about the contest is here: here https://www.veritasium.com/contest Contact … Continue reading

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Through Totemic Sculptures and Sound Art, Guadalupe Maravilla Explores the Therapeutic Power of Indigenous Ritual

In 1984, eight-year-old Guadalupe Maravilla left his family and joined a group of other children fleeing their homes in El Salvador. The Central American country was in the midst of a brutal civil war, a profoundly traumatic experience that’s left … Continue reading

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How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse

[…] In the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the universal wavefunction is the reality, encompassing all possible histories and futures and all exist. But we are only sensitive to a slice of the wavefunction corresponding to our “world”, and … Continue reading

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Vincent Milou | Parenthèse | Globe

A short video by Yentl Touboul featuring Vincent Milou shot on location in Paris to celebrate the launch of his new colorway of our Surplus shoe. The Surplus Milou is now available worldwide at your local skate shop and online … Continue reading

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Art by @titomulk and @stefistephanedurot, Paris

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Installation at Tokyo’s National Art Center Made From Brochures of Pandemic-Related Cancelled Events | Spoon & Tamago

photos courtesy yuri yagi and NACT The global pandemic has hit the pause button on life. Everything that brought us together—art shows and festivals to trade shows and symposiums—have all been cancelled. But memorializing these events and re-contextualizing them as … Continue reading

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