by wp_sd | Mar 31, 2019 | Creative, Design, Mathematics, Philosophy
When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he began to understand how the tools of science and engineering become more powerful when combined with art, with design and beauty. Ever since,...
by wp_sd | Mar 13, 2019 | Creative, Mathematics
Will these pictures give you some idea of what their secret is ? Maybe there is no secret ! The Ulam spiral is a way of visualizing the distribution of prime numbers (black dots in the image and blue in the movie below). This pattern is one the great unsolved...
by wp_sd | Mar 7, 2019 | Creative, Funny, Random
An initial burst of effervescence occurs when the Champagne contacts the dry glass on pouring. These bubbles form on imperfections in the glass that facilitate nucleation or, to a lesser extent, on cellulose fibres left over from the wiping/drying process as shown...
by wp_sd | Jan 25, 2019 | Analysis, Creative, Funny, Logic, Philosophy, Random
We all know that the best way to get something done is to write down a list of what to do. Well, here for you need of course some idea of what it is you are doing and that usually implies a little of analysing or broadly spoken “cutting into pieces”. In...
by wp_sd | Dec 13, 2018 | Creative, Mathematics, Philosophy
Kevin B. Jones Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision — and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B. Jones faces the deep unknowns about surgery and medical care with a simple answer: honesty. In a...
by wp_sd | Dec 6, 2018 | Creative, Music
Film by Ainslie Henderson
