Category Archives: Science

Fifth World Problems

By Tom Saunter | Published: January 9, 2012

If you’ve ever had the feeling “same shit, higher dimension”, I’m sure you’d fit right in on Fifth World Problems, a subreddit in the key of First World Problems, and a place for extradimensional beings to air their cosmic gripes. Most of the submissions and their respective commentary are childish lunacy, but among the smarter entries lie some fascinating […]

Posted in Science | Tagged artist, clothes, fractal, human, link, paint, reddit, sound, world | 1 Response

Are You Ready For Your Close Up, Miss Colada?

By Tom Saunter | Published: July 6, 2010

BevShots have discovered what you’d call a niche: they take your favourite alcoholic drink, crystallise a single droplet of it in an airtight container, photograph it at 1000x under a microscope, and then sell the resulting image on a printed canvas. And man, are these things selling! Since August last year BevShots estimate sales of […]

Also posted in Design | Tagged alcohol, art, camera, chemistry, close-up, drink, favourite, image, images, light, margarita, microscope, mind, people, photography, pina colada, potential, prints, single, slide, tequila, tonic, university, vodka, zoom | Leave a comment

The Weird Inner World of the 3D Fractal

By Tom Saunter | Published: July 1, 2010

This post is about one of the really cool things that happens when maths I don’t understand and technologies I don’t understand get together to make something awesome. Let us begin: A fractal is a conceptual object that reveals further details about its shape ad infinitum, upon ever-closer inspection of it’s fabric. Think of the […]

Also posted in Design | Tagged 3D, computing, creation, Design, fractal, images, infinite, mandelbrot, maths, science, technology, youtube | Leave a comment

Nature in Numbers

By Tom Saunter | Published: March 23, 2010

Saw something pretty cool on Boing Boing just now – a short film demonstrating how mathematic principles manifest in nature. It’s something you’ll all have heard about, but the below actually shows you the background, and does so in a really lovely way. Top marks to filmmaker Cristobal Vila for making Fibonacci, Golden and Angle […]

Posted in Science | Tagged maths, nature, numbers, ocean, science, sea, shapes, shells | 1 Response

The Future of Love

By UnrulyLindsey | Published: March 12, 2010

Love is here to stay Human beings are hard-wired to love. As babies, we rely solely on the love of our parents for our survival. As adults, our instinct to love keeps us producing those babies. So what is the future for love? Guest blogger Lindsey Mountford investigates: Love is a drug. The state we […]

Also posted in The Future | Tagged algorithm, babies, body, books, brain, brains, data, drugs, education, fake, food, future, google, history, industry, interesting, life, love, meme, mental, Mobile, mobile phone, money, Music, network, neurology, new, online, people, pharma, phone, play, playlist, power, psychology, robot, robotics, romance, sci-fi, science, social, social media, social network, software, spider, spotify, subscribe, The Future, therapy, track, universe, writing | 3 Responses