Le 6 janvier 2014 a été l’un des plus froids depuis des décennies aux USA. Avec des images de DNK Photography ainsi qu’une vidéo tournée par David Shelleny dans le Minnesota à la Apple Valley, il est possible de voir l’effet immédiat du froid sur de l’eau bouillante. A découvrir dans la suite.
Mysteries of the Unseen World: See beyond the limits of human vision with this 3D film from National Geographic, which makes its NY premiere at the American Museum of Natural History
Posted in: imax, infrared, nanotechnology, nationalgeographic, x-ray
The current René Magritte exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (which concludes on 12 January), titled “The Mystery of the Ordinary,” showcased surrealist paintings by the Belgian artist that challenged the way the…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Stylish toking, coffee with Louis C.K., neuromorphic computer chips and more in our weekly look at the web
Posted in: antarctica, hobonickelart, link about it
1. Tricycling to the South Pole Three wheels, 400 miles, ice crevasses and Antarctic weather (meaning 50 mph winds)—these are the conditions that 35-year-old Maria Leijerstam of Great Britain will face as she pedals with two other traditional cyclists from Ross Ice Shelf…
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Cool Hunting Video: Reverend Gadget’s Art Car: Electric innovation at Burning Man 2013 with a solar-powered art car
Posted in: burningman, electriccars
Among the dust in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, we spent six days braving the mayhem of the 2013 Burning Man Festival. There were plenty of interesting and strange characters roaming the playa, but…
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Cerebella Design: Patterns found in nature under the lab microscope, turned into artistic accessories
Posted in: bowties, cerebelladesign
If you’ve ever peered into a microscope, it’s likely that you’ve been wowed by the microscopic world of colors and texture; the patterns of nature caught under a lens. That was certainly the case for Ariele Faber, founder of ,…
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Moss Robot Construction Kit: Design, build and control robots at home
Posted in: Kickstarter, modrobotics
A far cry from Stretch Armstrong, Moss is a new dynamic robot construction kit that allows kids to build their own controllable toys. After over two years of prototyping, Colorado’s…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Genetically engineered plants, computer-generated children and artistic prosthetics in this week’s look at the web
Posted in: genetics, lab, link about it
1. Raymond Loewy Google Doodle If there really is a father of industrial design, it’s Raymond Loewy. And Google Doodle celebrated his would-be 120th birthday this past week. Inventor and streamliner of objects ranging from locomotives…
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This is Mars: Art and science merge in a book of hi-res space camera images that reveals the red planet’s beauty
Posted in: mars, photobooks, photographybooks
Eight years ago, the NASA space probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was fitted with the largest and most powerful camera (more commonly known as the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or ); return…
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Professor Astro Cat: London-based illustrator Ben Newman creates a playful character to teach kids about space
Posted in: cats, childrensbooks
by Gavin Lucas For the last 30 years, if you wanted to know about space, the universe and its many wonders, Professor Stephen Hawking has pretty much been the go-to guy. However that’s about to change because there’s a new space brainiac with…
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The Conference, Part Two: Phones with feelings, our multiple media personalities and more at Scandinavia’s largest technology and innovation conference
Posted in: hacking, malmö, mediaevolution, theconference
In Part One, we wrote about The Conference’s theme of taking grassroots action in media—people doing it for themselves. Another persistent subject, which kept rearing its futuristic head, was the concept of expressive technology. In contrast…
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