Very good, but it’s gone now. We are in 2017. Hooray!
Misc
2016 to be even longer
A “leap second” will be added to this year’s New Year’s countdown to compensate for a slowdown in the Earth’s rotation. The extra second will occur as clocks strike midnight and a time of 23:59:60 will be recorded, delaying 2017… Read More ›
Still is a dream come true!
Some of the old Nokia phones were kind of Moulinex phones. The Moulinex knife, like many white appliances, are made to do one thing only, and to do that one thing well. The old Nokia’s made calls and you could… Read More ›
A fractal analysis of neurological changes in seven artists
The notion that artistic capability increases with dementia is both novel and largely unsupported by available literature. Recent research has suggested an emergence of artistic capabilities to be a by-product of involuntary behaviour seen with dementia, as opposed to a… Read More ›
This Is How I Work
The company now known as Basecamp was founded 17 years ago by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim. Originally called 37signals and involved with various types of web design and development—including products like Campfire as well as what became… Read More ›
The Top Videos of 2016
Some seriously good videos are included in this list from Vimeo.
Anti Stress Cube
Every Stress Cube comes with six dynamic fidget features, Switch, Flow, Swivel, Compress, Soothe and Twist. Each feature is specially designed to settle uneasiness and keep you focused and stress free. Switch allows you to turn on your attention and… Read More ›
The world’s smallest snowman
The World’s Smallest Snowman stands less than 3 microns tall. The snowman was fabricated from three 0.9 micron silica spheres stacked with the use of electron beam lithography. The eyes and mouth were cut with a focused ion beam while… Read More ›
Podcasts you should be listening to
*The Ezra Klein Show — Thoughtful, deep conversations between Vox Media editor-in-chief Ezra Klein and guests about news, politics, literature, or whatever rabbit hole Klein wants to go down. This recent interview with Patrick Brown, founder of the plant-based-burger startup… Read More ›
Photographing Solar Power Mirrors in a desert
Reuben Wu first saw the sprawling solar farm a few years ago flying from Chicago to San Francisco. “I was startled by how bright it was,” he says. “It looked like a fake sun.” He finally visited the place in… Read More ›
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