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Things 116: Cloud Phase Time-Lapse, 3D Map, Better Tube Map
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Point a camera at the sky, create a time lapse video of the clouds. Do the same thing every day of the year. Play back all the videos simultaneously in a grid. Voilà: a kind of phase-diagram visualisation, with seconds representing minutes and space representing seasons. Brilliant.
More detail here. Via Data Pointed.
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This is apparently pretty [...]
Things 104: Power of Music, Misleading Impressions, Two Envelopes
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The effect of music on the brain is a very interesting thing that varies tremendously by individual. Last year I discovered a track that has an incredibly powerful mood-altering effect on me: Olympians, by a band with a potentially offensive name. It took a couple of initial slightly bemused listens before it properly seeped into [...]
Things 97: Vertical Ship, Climbing Game, State of 3D
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A brilliant solution to the problem of stability at sea:
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GIRP, a really nice little climbing game (probably easier to get to grips with if you know from the start that feet are not involved).
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Chris Lake, in his self-referential post 10 Reasons Why List Based Posts Work Well Online, makes the key point:
We are all cognitive [...]
Things 96: Rocket Path-Dependency, Lipstick Animals, 3D Doesn’t Work
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When speculating on the subject of extraterrestrial space-faring life, it’s all too easy to forget the many development factors that are likely to be local to us, and to assume that too much of what we have done will generalise to other life forms out there. This article puts forward a compelling argument that our [...]