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“The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is...
Ziba, a Portland-based design firm, asked each staff member to submit his/her “top five” list of designs that have changed the way we think about the world over the organization’s 29-year history–...
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“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think”*…
Shakespeare’s Tragedies – (Now with more Bear!)… from teacherspayteachers.com, via Kazuya Arakawa. * La Bruyere ### As we contemplate catharsis, we might recall that it was on this date in 1959, in...
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“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy”*…
Bio-hazard! Economic turmoil! Mass emigration!… How a tiny insect caused mass migration, the great French wine blight, and almost rid the world of wine forever…. click here for larger, legible...
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“He was a wise man who invented beer”*…
In the age of Amazon, when much of the world is but a click away from having any product they can imagine shipped to their doorstep in just two days, beer is stubbornly anachronistic, a globalization...
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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I...
The 93rd U.S. Congress, 1973-74, considered 26,157 bills; it made 738 (3%) of them law. The 103rd Congress, 1993-94, enacted 458 (5%) of the 9,746 bills it considered. The current Congress– the...
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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”*…
As this interactive graphic from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reveals, the number of nuclear weapons in the world peaked in the late 80s. But there are still roughly 10,000 nukes floating...
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“Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places”*…
Confused about what’s happening in the Middle East? No need to worry—our research team at the Institute of Internet Diagrams has come up with the ultimate explainer in the shape of an interactive...
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“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky”*…
click here for zoomable version In between Earth and space lies an ocean of air. That “great aerial ocean,” as biologist Alfred Russel Wallace (the other natural selection guy) called it, is an...
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“The exploring of the Solar System… constitutes the beginning, much more than...
“Solar System Interactive,” from Jeroen Gommers, is a simple– and simply beautiful– tool for understanding the relative orbits of the planets (and lest we forsake Pluto, the dwarf planets) the circle...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional”*…
xkcd * “Sheldon,” The Big Bang Theory ### As we turn up the air conditioner, we might spare a thought for Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he died on this date in 1994. One of the greatest philosophers of...
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“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never...
Detail from Richard Waller’s “Tabula colorum physiologica …” [Table of physiological colours], from Philosophical Transactions, 1686 — Source. One of the most demanding challenges for early modern...
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