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November 11, 2009

Magnetic Movie by Semiconductor

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

Not really sure what I’m looking at here, but it’s totally entrancing.  Science is nuts!

October 20, 2009

Hat-trick Design’s stamp series for Royal Mail - Eye blog (via Z.B.) This series of stamps uses ‘historical and modern stock images to portray all the areas of Darwin’s study, from Geology to Biology. We wanted to communicate how all these areas were interlinked, and that each study informed the bigger picture and ultimately led to his theories.’ As someone who collected stamps as a child, and apparently still has a little bit of lingering stamp fetish going on, let me just say: these are nice looking stamps.

Hat-trick Design’s stamp series for Royal Mail - Eye blog (via Z.B.)

This series of stamps uses ‘historical and modern stock images to portray all the areas of Darwin’s study, from Geology to Biology. We wanted to communicate how all these areas were interlinked, and that each study informed the bigger picture and ultimately led to his theories.’

As someone who collected stamps as a child, and apparently still has a little bit of lingering stamp fetish going on, let me just say: these are nice looking stamps.