Inspired by an Ira Glass quote, I’m going to attempt to do something creative every day for the next year. This blog - which won’t be at all interesting to anyone but me - is just a way of holding myself responsible.
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Atomic Dexterity
Origami is the ancient Japanese art form of folding paper into complex 3D structures. Kirigami is a variation that includes cutting the paper to create more intricate designs. Scientists have applied the latter technique to graphene, a material made of a honeycomb pattern of carbon atoms with many useful properties: 200 times stronger than steel by weight, it efficiently conducts heat and electricity and is nearly transparent. Graphene is made from incredibly thin sheets just one atom thick, a stack of 140,000 equalling the thickness of a piece of paper. Graphene kirigami can be used to build mechanical metamaterials – materials engineered to have properties that haven’t been found in nature – such as stretchable electrodes, hinges, and springs (as shown here). With these unique properties at the atomic scale, this technology could help create medical sensors able to monitor single cells or nanoscale robots keeping us healthy from inside our bodies.
Written by Kevin Pollock
Video from work by Melina Blees and colleagues
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, New York, USA
Copyright held by Nature Publishing Group
Published in Nature, July 2015
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from Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta
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more good omens stuff (previous, previous)
images from here and here.
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for Unreal Cities by Amelie Andrezel
[Source images here, here, here, and here]
#amelie andrezel#art#because you're the best!#digital art#fan art#fiction#kassiekassiekassie#london#photoshop#the blitz#the parson street wolves#unreal cities#wolves#design#typeography
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what is going on here
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Cornell, Ithaca, NY
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Portland, OR
(Guess who's going through their iphone photos now.)
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Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Images: John Martin and Duncan Holmes
#adam young#art#aziraphale#crowley#design#end times#fan art#fanart#good omens#neil gaiman#terry pratchett#the antichrist#the apocalypse
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This really looks like a satellite photo of a road through the outback to me.
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sunset reflecting off the window of sage chapel.
#chapel#church#cornell#cornell university#photography#reflection#sage chapel#snow#sunset#winter#hipstamatic
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1-13-12
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Wow was everything beautiful yesterday morning.
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favorite sketches from a semester of renaissance/baroque art history.
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