The media has been awash with sightings of Jesus in everything from pieces of toast to pelvic sonograms. I’d like to see an emerging buzz over hidden scientific images in religious artifacts.
Category: geek
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I can’t spend an extra penny right now, but I wish I could order one of these fantastic double helix necklaces from Morphologica.
Each piece starts as a sketch on paper, gets digitally modeled and laser cut.
Love the elegant lettering…
See more here.
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How could I not love these science themed holiday cookies?
Petri dishes!
Gel electrophoresis!
Gingerbread scientists!
Lab mice!
It looks like a lot of work went into these. Very nice.
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I love hard copy books, so I will not be undertaking this project. But I have to share since it’s rather amazing.
Bioephemera drew my attention to this tutorial on how to make your own book scanner.
Look at this thing! It’s like a robot overlord! Do you dare create one?
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My apologies if you’ve seen this before. But if anyone here hasn’t come across this invention (and has the urge to feel like part of a terrifying dystopian nightmare) who am I to withhold it?
Interactive media artist Mio I-zawa crafted this mechanical tumor that expands and contracts based on the amount of stress your computer is feeling.
Most of us know when we need to give our overheating CPU a rest, but in case you need a pulsating, malignant reminder…here’s how it works:
I-zawa also created a fleshy looking mechanical heart that moves in tandem with the user’s pulse. I must say, I’d like to walk around NYC with one of these, like it some sort of pet. Just for a day.
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I am an absolute geek in many areas…but advanced math is not one of them. I was fine until pre-calculus, then my mathematical aptitude stopped short.
Needless to say, I had no idea what a Lissajous Curve was until I saw this post on Art From Code.
This is what happens when you begin with Lissajous Curves and velocity is allowed to vary randomly.
How beautiful math can be…
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It sounds like a nickname doesn’t it? “Hey…D-Rad!”
But it’s actually an abbreviation for Deinococcus Radiodurans, a surprisingly resilient organism, dubbed Conan the Bacterium.
In brief:
D. Rad survive extreme levels of radiation, extreme temperatures, dehydration, and exposure to genotoxic chemicals. Amazingly, they even have the ability to repair their own DNA, usually within 48 hours. Known as an extremophile, bacteria such as D. rad are of interest to NASA partly because they might be adaptable to help human astronauts survive on other worlds. A recent map of D. rad’s DNA might allow biologists to augment their survival skills with the ability to produce medicine, clean water, and oxygen. Already they have been genetically engineered to help clean up spills of toxic mercury. Likely one of the oldest surviving life forms, D. rad was discovered by accident in the 1950s when scientists investigating food preservation techniques could not easily kill it.This bacteria could wipe the floor with any of us.
Find more than you ever needed to know about D. Rad here.
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I’m usually not one to embrace bright colors in my attire or accessories (except in small splashes, here and there) but this Colour Chart Bag by Cristian Zuzunaga is a nice concept:
It would make a great gift for a graphic designer. If there were one in grayscale, I’d definitely consider buying one.
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These socks (especially the notebook paper design) appeal to the old school geek in me.
They make me a bit nostalgic for the days when people still used paper and pencils all the time…even though I’m addicted to the computer.
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I like keeping this site image heavy with few words to challenge the attention span (I fear people have gotten used to gathering info in twitter-sized bits). However, I’m a card carrying Word Nerd and I have to share this.
The Washington Post’s Mensa invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2009 winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxication : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon : It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido : All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.) : Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your n bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.Personal favorite: SARCHASM
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are:
1. Coffee , n. The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted , adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate , v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade , v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly , adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent , adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph , v. To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle , n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence , n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash , n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle , n. A humorous question on an exam..
12. Rectitude , n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon , n.. A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster , n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism , n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent , n. An opening in the front of jockey shorts worn by Jewish men.Personal favorite: BALDERDASH
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