Auschwitz
Sounds of the sun [Article]
Robert Alexander is a sonification expert. I had no idea what that meant, so I looked to this Wikipedia entry to understand it a bit more. Essentially, it is converting data into sound to interpret it (forget for now the philosophical implications of that statement). Alexander has created sounds & symphonies from data that NASA collected of the Sun’s radiation, its rotation, & of its Solar flares.
For the reading List, I’m on my own & so are you [Book review]
Repairing the rungs on the ladder [Article]
Printing food in space? [Article, Video]
How to entertain a dog (or, rather, who we could entertain ourselves) [Video]
For some strange reason, this quiet video of a dog playing in the snow reminded me of my childhood days. Life is made of memories- memories are the only things we are left with when we lie down each day.
Infographic tools [Resouces]
Drawing is Thinking [Book Review]
Alberto Cairo refers to the masterpiece book by Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking, in a book review:
Our entire educational system continues to be based on the study of words and numbers. In kindergarten, to be sure, our youngsters learn by seeing and handling handsome shapes, and invent their own shapes on paper or in clay by thinking through perceiving. But with the first grade or elementary school the senses begin to lose educational status. More and more the arts are considered as a training in agreeable skills, as entertainment and mental release. As the ruling disciplines stress more rigorously the study of words and numbers, their kinship with the arts is increasingly obscured, and the arts are reduced to a desirable supplement. (…) The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.
Take a tour of the museum’s storage facility with Emily
No, seriously, she’s so good in her job as a curator – let her take you into the bowels of a museum that she works at, & discover all the things they’ve got in their storage there!