i have always been regretting that i was not as wise as the day i was born
–thoreau
Farnsworth House Sketch
San Francisco by Paul Spencer
GASS Architecture Studios have designed the Westcliff Pavilion in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Defender
Tiny Robo-Fly Uses Micro Energy to Buzz
For 12 years, Harvard engineering professor Robert Wood has been trying to get a fly-sized drone off the ground. He and his colleagues have had to overcome issues of weight, aerodynamics of wing flapping, power supply, and figuring out how to manufacture a robot smaller than a quarter. Finally, the little robo-fly is airborn. Read more
And those are elephants compared to the 2018 model.
Disclosure: Dave Morin is a cunt.
Unreal. Go read this and come back: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-morin-path-facebook-apple
It’s hard to imagine how you can turn a personal puff piece about your mobile phone into such a stunning cocktasm. Dave Morin manages it.
A Different Light
Amateur telescopes come in a couple of flavors. On the right, the view in white light, showing the surface or photosphere. White light filters show sunspots, brighter plage regions at the edge of the sun and in good seeing, the subtle granulation of the sun’s surface.
On the left is the view seen at the wavelength of hydrogen alpha light. Only in this narrow slice deep in the red end of the visible spectrum (656.3nm) can we see edge prominences, arching filaments, hot active regions and the beautiful convolutions of the solar chromosphere - the atmosphere of our sun.
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