- After a two year break, Princeton University has been hosting a new "Art of Science" competition this year with the theme of "found art." The organizers explain on their website: "These extraordinary images are not art for art’s sake. Rather, they were produced during the course of scientific research. Entries were chosen for their aesthetic excellence as well as scientific or technical interest." You find the submissions and winners here. Beautiful.
- Martin Fenner reports on the results from his survey on author identifiers, a topic that we discussed on our post Yes, but are you a prime number?
- Videos a little weirder: Check Yooouuutuube.com. (Thanks to Andi!).
- If I were to dig a hole right here and through the center of the Earth, where would I come out? Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, Southwest of Australia. Dig your own hole here and tell me where you come out!
- Really Large Toys.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
This and That
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Dear Bee,
ReplyDeletethanks for the links - the Art of Science Gallery is really beautiful. And I remember my grandfather telling me about some islands called "antipodes" near New Zealand - no idea if they are real, but now I can search for them on google maps ;-)
Cheers, Stefan
Hi Stefan & Bee,
ReplyDeleteWell Stefan your grandfather was right, and as you can see on
wikipedia, it refers precisely to Australia/New Zealand, and probably to the surrounding islands too.
Beautiful gallery indeed.
Bests,
Johann
The Indian Ocean is to the southWEST of Australia. Lots of things are upside down in the south, but not east and west.
ReplyDeleteOoops, thanks. That was of course just to test the attentiveness of our readers ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh, and even the Antipodes Islands really exist, southeast of New Zealand, and roughly antipodal to London. And they are on google maps - at least in the satellite view, and though they appear a bit spooky, out of the blue...
ReplyDeleteWell, one does quickly notice the suspiciously crater like shape of the smaller island.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your posting on startkick1@ymail.com - scam information -- i had an ad in craigslist looking for an apt in switzerland and received the identical written response identifying the apt word for word like yours in stockholm. Today june 7th 2009. Thanks Again Gisella!
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