An AI short video that takes us back in time to a better future.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Walkin’ The Dog
Why? Just why? 😂 pic.twitter.com/cWcWamyb6N
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 20, 2024
A Map Of The Brain Of A Fruit Fly
“FlyWire,” a Princeton-led team of scientists and citizen scientists, has made a massive step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap through the brain of an adult fruit fly.
Fully mapping a human brain of roughly 86 billion neurons is likely still many years in the future but this project brings us a step closer to better understanding brain diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
via Aeon
Composing Movement
Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa understood movement and knew how to capture it onscreen.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Sunday Links
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| Fool’s Cap Map of the World |
In 1570 a geographer named Abraham Ortelius produced a bound bundle of fifty-three maps (image above). It was the first global atlas, and became a bestseller; Ortelius titled it Theater of the World. Via The Public Domain Review
Pygmy Seahorses: The true romantics of the ocean (via Curious About Everything)
The goring of the gourds
The interiors of Schult mobile homes were a testament to the era’s emphasis on practicality, comfort, and style, making them a popular choice for many American families. (via Memo Of The Air)
In the Fold - a paper puzzle
Pretty great: Talking Heads Song 'This Must Be the Place' recreated in tattoos.
Peter McCarey is a Scottish poet; his major endeavour over many years has been the Syllabary, begun as a thought experiment while reading to his daughter and completed in 2022, which attempts a poem for every syllable in the English language. It is very soothing. (via Web Curios)
Who the hell eats bear meat? (other than RFK Jr)
This 1813 will by the Rev. Hugh Worthington of Highbury Place, Islington was the only will ever written in shorthand.
Free to a good home: The Ingenium Classroom Pod.
This video for a luxury ryokan has me dreaming about a trip to Kyoto.
General Headquarters, Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game, is finally for sale. (h/t PfRC)
I learned something new today.
Disgustingly Pro-Women: When Yelp hands you lemons, make lemonade. (via Miss Cellania)
Saturday, October 19, 2024
The Four Yorkshiremen
An hilarious sketch starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (Feline Edition)
Happy Caturday! @police_cat_amsterdam is the Instagram account of Nimis, an official police cat who looks very much like my Carmen.
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