Monday, May 4, 2015

Link Round-Up: May 4, 2015

Avengers Ultron from ALAMOSCOUT6

"Avengers Ultron" by ALAMOSCOUT6


Back in 2013, an extraordinarily detailed hand-drawn maze drawn by Japanese father Kazuo Nomura completed for his daughter in 1983 (after seven years of work) went viral.  Recently, Nomura’s daughter asked her father to make another maze, and after an initial refusal, Nomura created a new beautifully detailed maze drawing. While the new drawing "only" took two months to make, it is still strikingly intricate.  Plus, this time, the maze can be purchased as a print.

Calculating the Speed of Light Using a Microwave and PEEPS (or other melty things) from National Geographic’s Education Blog and NPR’s Skunk Bear videos. Of course, this is the speed of light in a microwave oven, where everything seems to take long than I think it ought to, not the usually quoted number which is the speed of light in a vacuum.

If you took a calculus course in college, the name James Stewart may ring a bell. The money you spent on those textbooks went to build "one of the most important private houses built in North America in a long time", a curving concert hall of wood and glass. Stewart died in December, and the house is now on sale.

Instructables on How to Make a Secret Door Bookcase.

"Italian artist immortalizes Snowden, Assange and Manning with a statue honoring their courage in Berlin's Alexanderplatz." Anything to Say is now on tour. More pictures in this Berliner Zeitung article.


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