As we’ve noted for years now, the state of
Irish whiskey remains strong. Typically lighter and sweeter than its Scottish peers, Irish whiskey’s an easy entry point to the brown spirits world, but allows for plenty of room to investigate nuance……
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In our tech-driven society, it is easy to overlook the needs of an industry that still exists entirely in a physical environment. Much hasn’t changed in regards to hand tool design and innovation in the recent past—and for good reason. Hand tools have evolved to reflect the needs of humanity’s desire to create with physical means. Stone tools served humanity for millennia before we were ready for an improvement, and this same ancient technology is still in use in many hand tools today.
Much like our prehistoric ancestors, many veterans of the American labor force seem reluctant to change, akin to the reasoning of “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.” This presents a problem unique to this industry and others that adhere to convention. Without innovation, an emerging workforce will be less likely to adapt.
When it gets right down to it, the construction industry thrives on efficiency. A construction company is only as good as the hands that do the work, regardless of whether those hands are young or old. Duit attempts to bridge the gap between generations of workers on a construction site, while remaining an intuitive tool for the DIYer.
Nate is a preschooler whose love for geography, countries, flags, and more has really put him on the map!..(Read…)
Twenty five years ago, physicist Robert Lang worked at NASA, where he researched lasers. He has also garnered 46 patents on optoelectronics and even wrote a Ph.D. thesis called “Semiconductor Lasers: New Geometries and Spectral Properties.” But in 2001, Lang left his job in order to pursue a passion he’s had since childhood: origami. In the origami world, Lang is now a legend, and it’s not just his eye-catching, intricate designs that have taken the craft by storm. Some of his work has helped pioneer new ways of applying origami principles to complex real-world engineering problems…(Read…)
“What happens when you pump 20,000 joules into a watermelon? Two words. Pink Mist. After trying to blow up a watermelon with a smaller capacitor, my friend coyt brought over 4 capacitors rated at 20kv and 25uf each. They came from a lab that used to them to simulate the effects of lightning on materials, so this is basically like what would happen if a lightning bolt struck a watermelon! “..(Read…)
In response to the swathe of supertall luxury residential towers rising in New York, local studio Oiio has proposed a conceptual skyscraper that loops over to boast length rather than height.
The Big Bend would be formed from a very thin structure that curves at the top and returns to the ground, creating what the architecture firm describes as the longest building in the world.
Oiio, based in New York and Athens, came up with the proposal to highlight the race for height between Manhattan’s luxury condo developers.
Real-estate companies are capitalising on a planning law that permits them to purchase air rights from neighbouring buildings, allowing for taller and taller towers on relatively small plots.
“The story of The Big Bend follows a recent trend that has appeared in New York City: the emergence of myriad tall and slender residential skyscrapers,” said the studio.
“New York City’s zoning laws have created a peculiar set of tricks trough, which developers try to maximise their property’s height in order to infuse it with the prestige of a high-rise structure,” it continued.
“But what if we substituted height with length? What if our buildings were long instead of tall?”
Renderings show The Big Bend among the luxury apartment towers proposed and under construction on and around West 57rd Street, just south of Central Park, which has become known as Billionaire’s Row.
Skinny skyscrapers including SHoP Architects’ 111 West 57th Street and Christian de Portzamparc‘s One57 are both rising on the street, while Jean Nouvel’s 53W53 and Rafael Viñoly’s 432 Park Avenue are both nearby.
The Skyscraper Museum has nicknamed them “super-slenders” due to their extreme base-width-to-height ratios.
Oiio’s design features a grid of large windows, similar to those on Viñoly’s skyscraper, but with even smaller floorplates.
Its legs would straddle a historic building to fit into narrow plots either side, then rise to tower over both SHoP and de Portzamparc’s buildings.
“If we manage to bend our structure instead of bending the zoning rules of New York, we would be able to create one of the most prestigious buildings in Manhattan,” the studio said.
Some of New York’s prominent architects have spoken out against the number of luxury residential skyscrapers classed as supertall – measuring between 980 feet (300 metres) and 2,000 feet (600 metres) tall – rising in the city.
Steven Holl said the buildings symbolise inequality in architectural form, while Liz Diller said that the city is at risk of being “consumed by the dollar”.
Locals have also voiced concerns about the towers, complaining that they will overshadow Central Park.
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Ever woken up to the smell of fresh coffee, or sizzling bacon, or just the fragrance of your loved one? Smell has a way to invigorate you in a way that sound can’t. The Mojo fragrance alarm relies on that property by using fragrances to wake you up so you feel absolutely refreshed and vibrant!
The Mojo’s design is innovative and has a clever detail. The fragrance grill takes inspiration from the Fibonacci arrangement in a flower, making a rather clever reference to the way humans smell lowers for their unique and pleasing fragrances. While the idea of waking up to fragrances isn’t for everyone, Mojo works as a conventional alarm clock too. Either set your alarm time and fragrance manually on the Mojo, or use the Mojo app to configure when you want to wake up, and to what aroma!
Designer: Komal Rathi
Word buffs have something exciting to add to their calendar. In the winter of 2019, Planet Word will open in Washington, DC as an interactive museum dedicated to language. Founded by literacy and education advocate Ann Friedman, the destination will……
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How to teleport Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full quantum teleportation procedure, in which an arbitrary qubit (spin, etc) is teleported from Alice to Bob by way of a pair of particles entangled in a bell (EPR) state and the transmission of information via a classical channel…(Read…)
How shyness can be overcome by valuing oneself as equal to everyone else in any situation.”The secret to overcoming shyness is to remember that others are, beneath the differences, always substantially the same as we are…(Read…)
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