Nov 26
I’ve seen Earth compared to all its water
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Nov 26
Tomorrow and Thursday, an estimated 43.4 million Americans will travel to celebrate Thanksgiving with their loved, hated and annoyed ones. According to NASA, 90 percent will travel by road, and the rest will use airplanes and trains. Here are the roads, train tracks and flight paths they will take.
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Nov 24
The H-1 camera on board NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft has captured this sequence of the two comets now en route to the Sun: Encke and ISON.
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Nov 21
Christianity. Islam. Judaism. Buddhism. Hinduism. All the major religions have basically competed with each other in an epic, historical game of Risk. Who can gain the most converts? Which religion is the most right at being right? Who has the most color on the board? Those who start strong early can flame out, others can try to stay steady while Christianity ends up painting the entire world after establishing key holding grounds.
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Nov 21
It may not be accurate anymore, but I want a hard copy of this beautiful 1854 graphic that shows the longest rivers and the tallest mountains in the world—so I’m definitely taking this high resolution file and printing it. Click here for more information about these charts.
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Nov 19
We know that climate change is already affecting Earth’s weather in a major way, but we don’t exactly know how bad things are going to get. However, scientists have a pretty good idea of the probabilities of Earth going to hell in the next few decades. This video shows them.
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Nov 08
Scientists have unlocked the secrets of molten magma at a depth of 1400 kilometers using the most brilliant X-ray source in the planet. Their findings are crucial to understand the formation of Earth.
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Nov 08
The Air Force has a very special base sitting atop Haleakala, a dormant volcano in Hawaii. It doesn’t look like any other air base because the USAF Maui Space Complex has a very special mission: Spy on objects orbiting Earth. This is how it looks:
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Sep 18
Traditionally, maps were made to help people find their way around a city that they might be visiting for the first time. However, Kate McLean took the basic concept of the map and spun it around to come up with an all-new series that have made the jump from being reference materials to art: the Sensory Maps.
Instead of telling you where certain streets or landmarks are located, Kate’s sensory maps will instead let you know what it would feel like if you were actually there. How? By letting you smell its scents, taste the surrounding atmosphere, feel whatever might be there, and hear the sounds in that location.
Of course, it would be impossible to let you experience all these senses through a map – but that’s what your imagination is for, right?
To construct some of the maps, Kate invited people to go to her studio and smell bottles with scents in them. She then had them recall what that scent remind them of and write down the place or feeling that they associated with the smell.
That’s a lot of work, considering that this is just for one of the senses that Kate’s trying to capture in her work.
[via Pop Up City]
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