Made On Earth: Watching the Detectors
John Zaklikowski re-creates particle accelerator detectors out of computer motherboards, hard drives, video and sound cards, cellphone bits, vacuum tubes.
John Zaklikowski re-creates particle accelerator detectors out of computer motherboards, hard drives, video and sound cards, cellphone bits, vacuum tubes.
Britta Riley believes that urban agriculture โ specifically hydroponic โwindow farmsโ โ can make a real contribution to environmental activism.
Inspired by the flying saucers, rocket ships, and robots of 1950s sci-fi comic covers, Jason Dietz set out to create a little of that magic for his home.
The standard explanation for the attractiveness of older technology is simply that They Made It Better In The Old Days. But this isnโt necessarily or even usually true.
Computational models are digital, and that makes them inherently shareable, independently verifiable, and easy to collaborate on and improve.
The U.S. space program that I grew up with is gone. Yet our fascination with space is not.
By Andrew Salomone In Hans Holbein’s famously inexplicable painting, “The Ambassadors,” a large anamorphic skull appears to lie across the floor at the feet of two dandified renaissance gentlemen. The skull appears in correct perspective only when the painting is seen from an acute angle looking diagonally down from the left-hand side of the painting […]