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kateoplis: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:48:44 +0100

Hiroshi Sugimoto

"Feynman visualized the world with pictures rather than with equations. Other physicists in the past..."

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:53:27 +0100

“Feynman visualized the world with pictures rather than with equations. Other physicists in the past and present describe the laws of nature with equations and then solve the equations to find out what happens. Feynman skipped the equations and wrote down the solutions directly, using his pictures as a guide. Skipping the equations was his greatest contribution to science. By skipping the equations, he created the language that a majority of modern physicists speak. Incidentally, he created a language that ordinary people without mathematical training can understand.”

- The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books

Feynman died in 1988, and Dyson’s now 87. If Dyson replaced Feynman as the physicist who could explain quantum mechanics in English, who will replace Dyson?

(via felixsalmon)

I Eat Ewoks: What Netflix Isn't Saying

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:49:23 +0100

I Eat Ewoks: What Netflix Isn't Saying:

ahknight:

Netflix jacked their rates for Instant Watch + DVD delivery and gave a lame-ass excuse for it. It was calculated to be lame, however, because if they used the real reason for it prices might go even higher.

The Internet’s memory is short so let’s go back a week ago to when Netflix lost the Sony…

lookhigh: How do you say ‘Wow’ in French? Paris...

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:51:01 +0100

lookhigh:

How do you say ‘Wow’ in French?

Paris Metro Roxi London via: flickr.com

(via artemisdreaming)

imageoscillite: A Blast From The Past: Shuttle Through The...

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:08:30 +0100

imageoscillite:

A Blast From The Past: Shuttle Through The Decades by NPR

melisaki: Times Square photo by Christopher Thomas, 2009

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:23:45 +0100

melisaki:

Times Square

photo by Christopher Thomas, 2009

kateoplis: Another fantastic interactive by NYT: 30 Years of...

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:23:12 +0100

kateoplis:

Another fantastic interactive by NYT: 30 Years of the Space Shuttle

Transformers 3 Reuses footage from The Island...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:17:15 +0100

Transformers 3 Reuses footage from The Island...

kateoplis: spaceships: < no source > It’s a sand...

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:01:19 +0100

kateoplis:

spaceships:

< no source >

It’s a sand drawing by Jim Denevan.

invitationtohang: Taken in Midtown Manhattan at the Sixth...

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:20:48 +0100

invitationtohang:

Taken in Midtown Manhattan at the Sixth Avenue on a rainy night.

kateoplis: Don’t look down.

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:20:28 +0100

kateoplis:

Don’t look down.

kateoplis: Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, is seen...

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:19:52 +0100

kateoplis:

Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, is seen further away from the confines and safety of the Space Shuttle Challenger than any previous astronaut has ever been from an orbiter in this February 12, 1984 photo.

In Focus: The History of the Space Shuttle

melisaki: Olaf plays with his football beside the Berlin...

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:18:06 +0100

melisaki:

Olaf plays with his football beside the Berlin Wall

photo by Günter Zint; Bernauer Strasse, West Berlin, circa 1960s

kateoplis: Yuji Hamada, Nightless

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:29:47 +0100

kateoplis:

Yuji Hamada, Nightless

Get Used To Hearing "NO" -- It's Good for Your Photography & Filmmaking Career | Chase Jarvis Blog

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:39:00 +0100

Get Used To Hearing "NO" -- It's Good for Your Photography & Filmmaking Career | Chase Jarvis Blog

lookhigh: Fire in the...

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:10:15 +0100

lookhigh:

Fire in the sky

markcoatney:

highcountrynews:

Here’s an image from the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Flickr stream on the Las Conchas fire. Beautiful and destructive.

As of this morning, the fire is reported at 60,000 acres (up from 49,000 last night and just a couple thousand Sunday.) The Albuquerque Journal reports that air monitoring teams have arrived on the scene to check for potential radiation releases if the lab, which houses radioactive materials, does catch fire.

The Associated Press has written that a 2009 report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s inspector general said

Los Alamos County firefighters weren’t sufficiently trained to handle the unique fires they could face with hazardous or radioactive materials at LANL.

Here’s hoping the fire doesn’t reach the lab.

melisaki: #2 photo by Helmut Newton; Cyberwoman series, LA...

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:54:58 +0100

melisaki:

#2

photo by Helmut Newton; Cyberwoman series, LA 2009

petervidani: “The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley...

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:52:31 +0100

petervidani:

“The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. I hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that’s just life — it’s not science fiction, it’s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.”

— William Gibson, on Blade Runner

Photo

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:51:39 +0100

kateoplis: Katrina d’Autremont honored in PDN’s 30 New &...

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:47:22 +0100

kateoplis:

Katrina d’Autremont honored in PDN’s 30 New & Emerging Photographers 2011