Melvin the Mini Machine stamps a postcard, Rube Goldberg style. I love the enthusiasm of his human operator. Also, bow-ties are cool.
"I’ve been asked many times, what would I do if I were NASA Director. And I said, I would resign, knowing that that’s an insufficient place of power to do what NASA needs to do.
You need to be in a position to double NASA’s budget and if the president can’t do it, then the only force left are those to whom the president reports — and that’s the electorate. In fact, any deep change that needs to happen with NASA needs to happen on a level that transcends partisan politics and politics in general, so that is a will of the nation rather than a whim of a politician that’s coming in and out of office.
"On the Science Times podcast, astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a passionate and articulate case for space exploration and the crucial importance of citizen engagement with science.
Tyson recently testified before Senate on the same subject, with equal eloquence. His new book, Space Chronicles, is a must-read, blending scientific urgency with keen cultural and political observation.
(via explore-blog)
Mesmerising, as a lava lamp is.
Handmade Type – a brilliant self-initiated typography experiment by designer Tien-Min Liao, exploring the relationship between uppercase and lowercase letters through hand gestures.
More photos on the click through. Who is the client I wonder!
“The Brain” is a 14,280 cubic-foot cinematic laboratory where the owner, a filmmaker, can work out ideas. By Olson Kundig Architects.
Artist: Berndnaut Smilde
Title: Cumulus
Date: 2012
via It’s Nice That
Recently I was trying to remember the names of different types of clouds, it was something I used to know well. We have had some beautiful cirrocumulus clouds in the sky at dusk lately.
(Source: thomasprior)
"I guess things will happen as they happen. Things have a way of unfolding. Of revealing themselves. And they will. Things are afoot. And that’s all that counts."
Warren Ellis of Dirty Three fame in the M+N interview.
