Friday Ephemera

Dr Wei Sheng has a thing for decorative needles. // The stop-motion graphic equaliser. // More views from above. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // Cloud formations, seen from space. // V-2 meets the stratosphere, films curvature of the Earth. (1946) // Peter Risdon on photons, sofas and creating the world. // Your very own galaxy. 80,000 stars in a 12cm cube. // 55 metre photo of the Milky Way, viewed in infrared. // Solar System. (1977) // Mystery of levitation “solved”. // 10 scientists killed or injured by their experiments. Radiation, poisoning, staring at the Sun. // The Kneale Tapes. From Quatermass to Year of the Sex Olympics. Part 2, 3, 4. // TV “detector vans” through the ages. // An illustrated history of the Roman Empire. // The joys of fire gel. // The Glo Pillow. // What ovulation looks like. // Los Simpson. // Blu: Muto. A tale of animated paint. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // Fun will balls. (h/t, Cookslaw.) // How tennis will be. // Fishing, for kids and idiots. // Tree houses of note. (h/t, Coudal.) // Things found inside old books. // A collection of unscratched lottery tickets. // The Japanese calculator museum. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Kraftwerk, of course.

Comments

[sk60]

The fire gel is wild. But still - owch.

[Anna]

Love the stop-motion graphic equaliser. What's the piece of music they use?

[David]

Anna,

The music is “Balkan Hot Step” by N.O.H.A. (Noise of Human Art): http://www.imeem.com/people/Br7Qmr/music/Io8OOgd_/noha_balkan_hotstep/
Live version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zY8Hw88Qvo
N.O.H.A. website: http://www.n-o-h-a.de/

[Anna]

Thanks!

[John D]

Re: scientists' fatal experiments - "The amount of radiation he was exposed to was equivalent to standing 4800 feet away from an atomic bomb explosion. This accident prompted the end of all hands-on assembly work at Los Alamos."

An "accidental fission reaction"!