Wartime Trade Between Belligerents of War Materials
It is not unknown in the annals of history for warring powers to continue to trade with each other, on a limited basis, during active hostilities. But journalist Adam Hochschild found a remarkable episode of it during World War I and wrote about it in his new book To End All Wars. Tyler Cowen, an [...]
Photos from Inside the Mouth
One of Justin Quinell’s recent projects was to photograph the world with a camera in his mouth. His new book, Mouthpiece, shows the results. You can see a slideshow of examples from that book at the link.
My idea: shoot a short horror film from this perspective.
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What Determined the Length of an Audio CD?
What determined the length of the audio CD developed by Sony? It was based on the length of the longest recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Tyler Cowen quotes from Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli’s book The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy:
Sony had initially preferred a smaller diameter, but soon [...]
Weird Children’s Book of Opposites
Existenz has photos of a decidedly odd children’s book called Elephant Elephant: A Book of Opposites by Francesco Pittau and Bernadette Gervais. Opposing concepts are presented with a pair of elephants, such as one that is on fire and one no longer on fire. The pages for “open” and “closed” are really freaky.
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The Typical Vegan is 30 Feet Tall and Radiates Anti-Gravitons
If you think that vegans are just people who avoid animal products, you have a rather incomplete understanding of a complex people with a unique history, culture, and physiology. Did you know that they have horns on their heads from which they emit anti-gravitons? It’s true, as this page from the Essential Official Handbook of [...]
NASA Art Work
1962, a NASA administrator named James Webb decided to give artists broad access to the agency’s facilities and programs. In the ensuing five decades, a vast body of work was created by those artists. Many of their compositions have been compiled into a new book called NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration by James Dean and [...]
The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
There’s a lot of fascinating things about molecular biology (I should know, I have a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology) – but a lot of students get discouraged from learning it because it is taught poorly in school. To be fair, the topic is rather complex – if you don’t get the basics right, [...]
