Mechanical butterfly, circa 1911
Category: History of Science
Check out this great slideshow of fascinating advertising novelties from 1911, over at Scientific American....
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Category: History of Science
Check out this great slideshow of fascinating advertising novelties from 1911, over at Scientific American....
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Category: Blogosphere
"Paperwork Explosion" - creepy techno-utopian propaganda from IBM
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Category: Destinations
Miracle of Science: the Cambridge bar around the corner from MIT, where the menu is a (pseudo) periodic table. May I recommend the grilled chicken salad with cilantro lime dressing, "Sc"?...
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Category: Blogosphere
An invitation from scienceforcitizens.net: As record levels of snow blanket much of the United States this year, Science For Citizens is collaborating with an important climate research project at the University of Waterloo called Snow Tweets. We're pleased that this...
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Category: Biology
I don't know what they were thinking, but that ain't what I call "sciart"
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Category: Science in Advertising
Unfortunately, the shift to digital music sales has largely eliminated the art of traditional album design - framing the music in cleverly designed sleeves and cases. The new Shidlas cd, "Saliami Postmodern," is a meaty exception. Yum: Via Fubiz (the...
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Category: Dataviz
IBM has a new commercial depicting the constant streams of medical biodata that can be gathered from a human body, and hopefully improve healthcare. In a shameless play to elicit warm fuzzies, they made it about very young babies: Awwwww....
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Category: Artists & Art
Reader Miles suggested Danny Cooke's graceful documentary about ornamental glass & sign artist David A. Smith, who uses traditional techniques like gilding, silvering, and etching to create ornate glass signs and windows with aesthetics from Victorian to Art Nouveau. Time-lapse...
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Category: Web 2.0, New Media, and Gadgets
From a post by Erin Fitzgerald, a DoD Science Policy Fellow who consulted on the design of Mattel's new "Computer Engineer Barbie:" It might seem silly to get excited about a new Barbie doll. But, to me, she will...
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Category: Artists & Art
The UK History of Advertising Trust has initiated a ghostsigns archive to document old painted billboards - the kind you see on the sides of brick buildings, fading away unnoticed. These old signs are being destroyed daily (by gentrification,...
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