Print your landscape
Three-dimensional printing is a wonderful thing, and it keeps getting better. A few years ago, I bought a beautiful model of a transfer RNA molecule. All you had to do was tell them the Protein Data...
View ArticleFlags of all nations
St. Frank called my attention to some fun flag sites in two of his recent posts. Inspired by Flag Day, he wrote about the drawing of flags by third-graders (and their like) around the world. The...
View ArticleElection maps
The recent election, in a good example of counter-causal temporal wind, now seems far, far behind us. In fact, it might be called a hurricane-force temporal gust, blowing the effects of the election...
View ArticleLabels and authenticity: How true is a true name?
Have you ever been walking on Wall Street and realized you were walking on Wall Street? When I was in college, I spent a few touristic days in Bruges, Belgium. While strolling along the old...
View ArticleA day in the life of FedEx
All roads lead to Rome, but all skyways lead to Memphis. Watch this video and you’ll see what I mean. I defy you not to think of ants crawling into an ant hill. You’re watching 25 hours worth of FedEx...
View ArticleFlatten the world
Squaring the circle is hard, but it’s nothing compared to the problem of flattening the globe. We like flat maps, but any map of a sphere is going to cause major distortions one way or another. So the...
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