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FedEx Shipping Damage Creates Fractured Artworks

Posted on January 13, 2021 by agogo22

Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit exactly into FedEx’s shipping boxes and then ships them to galleries and museums without any protection against … Continue reading →

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Photorealistic Figures Embody Childhood Wonder in Dreamy Murals by Lula Goce

Posted on January 12, 2021 by agogo22

From New York City to Azerbaijan to Kristianstad, Sweden, artist Lula Goce transforms blank walls into ethereal artworks that illustrate childlike wonder and growth. Her murals merge photorealistic renderings of adolescent subjects with otherworldly surroundings: plumes of flowers and vines … Continue reading →

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Gravity Energy Storage : A very uplifting technology!

Posted on January 11, 2021 by agogo22

Gravity energy storage is not actually a new concept. We’ve been doing it with pumped hydro for more than a century. But that’s very expensive to build and needs an awful lot of space. Now though, two new companies have … Continue reading →

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Free As In Frequent Flyer Miles | Kottke

Posted on January 5, 2021 by agogo22

Buried deep within Jamie Lauren Keiles’ NY Times article about frequent flyer miles and The Points Guy is this economic observation: A major reason points-and-miles trips exist is because airlines turn a more stable profit by minting their own currencies … Continue reading →

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Architects Worldwide Declare a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency

Posted on January 4, 2021 by agogo22

Architects Declare is a global initiative started in the UK that asks architects to demand a change for justice.   In May 2019, 17 renowned architecture firms launched a declaration of a climate, justice, and biodiversity emergency now known as … Continue reading →

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Is the London Underground knotted?

Posted on January 3, 2021 by agogo22

Check out Geoff’s video from the same day! Thanks very much to Vicki and Geoff for all their help. If you want some more maths, and the ‘rules’ for finding a Tube Knot, check out the bonus content video on … Continue reading →

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What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures

Posted on January 2, 2021 by agogo22

We could use this crisis to rebuild, produce something better and more humane. But we may slide into something worse. Where will we be in six months, a year, ten years from now? I lie awake at night wondering what … Continue reading →

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Sim Chi Yin – The Rat Tribe: Meet the Million Migrant Workers Living Beneath Beijing’s Streets

Posted on January 2, 2021 by agogo22

Beijing’s former bomb shelters are now home to a million or more young migrants seeking to save rent as they forge a new life in the Chinese capital. In this intimate video portrait, co-published with Al Jazeera America, a 21-year-old … Continue reading →

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Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse

Posted on December 29, 2020 by agogo22

Natalie Wolchover Senior Writer/Editor The Gaia telescope gauges the distances to stars by measuring their parallax, or apparent shift over the course of a year. Closer stars have a larger parallax.   We don’t know why the universe appears to … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 27, 2020 by agogo22

 

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How To Count Past Infinity

Posted on December 24, 2020 by agogo22

Sources and links to learn more below! I’m very grateful to mathematician Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard, for taking the time on multiple occasions to discuss this topic with me and help me wrap my (finite) … Continue reading →

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Alzheimer’s and the Brain

Posted on December 23, 2020 by agogo22

Vsauce is proud to announce our support for Alzheimer’s Association’s #TheLongestDay now and throughout June during Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month. Visit http://www.alz.org/Vsauce to join us! More good links: http://www.alz.org/facts/ Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures [PDF]: http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/2… Basics of Alzheimer’s … Continue reading →

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