Transportation

Awe­some. Okay, it’s Pho­to­shop. I don’t care.

BTW the orig­i­nal bike pics are shiny too. (Ouch — need shades.)

Liv­ing here out­side of Seat­tle, the biggest user of mem­o­ry space in my brain is pot­hole loca­tions. I don’t real­ly dri­ve like a stoned mon­key. I just look like it as I avoid the mul­ti­tude of rim bend­ing chuck­holes.  A clever Ital­ian solu­tion that frees up brain space and let’s strangers in on the wonky dri­ving fun.

What hap­pens when you let an air­plane mechan­ic build a Moto-Guzzi cafe rac­er? Mag­ic.

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Science

Psy­chopaths are … heavy users of dopamine? Maybe it’s not the lack of inhi­bi­tions or lack of fear of the con­se­quences of buck­ing social norms that prompts their actions, but dif­fer­ences in their reward seek­ing behav­ior. Inter­est­ing set of insights.

Very pret­ty sun­set image look­ing away from the sun. The bright star is Mars.

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Society

From the web­site of the British char­i­ty Shel­ter­box. The con­tents of a sim­ple plas­tic tote box that can pro­vide mid-term shel­ter for up to 10 peo­ple in the after­math of a nat­ur­al or civ­il dis­as­ter. Nice­ly executed.

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Art, Images, and Design

A lit­tle some­thing from my pas­sion — jew­el­ry. Rings with hous­es, or maybe hous­es with rings. Some com­plete with swim­ming pools or court­yards. Phillipe Tour­naire.

More hous­es, but not in pre­cious met­al. This piece is from the senior the­sis exhi­bi­tion of the Kyoto Uni­ver­si­ty of Art and Design.

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Animation

Anoth­er entry from the Oscar short-list for short ani­ma­tion. “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleep­ing Beau­ty,” Oh my, I may nev­er sleep again. Dark, cack­ling, and well grimm. Dis­ney will nev­er recover.

go get ’em my dears.