• Nice comparative presentation of Tarot iconography, rounding up hundreds of cards from the 1330’s to present, accompanied by articles on the meaning of Tarot cards and their historical development. Interesting. In related linkage: The Hermitage a Tarot history site.
• The Lasso, a rational guide to trick roping. Ye haw!
• Video: Zoologist Dan-Eric Nilsson of the University of Lund in Sweden explains how the complex human eye could have evolved gradually from a primitive light-sensitive eye-spot, or: the human Eye is NOT irreducibly complex!
• The Implant Matrix, Orpheus Filter, Orgone Reef, Tensegrity Weave, and Hungry soil… just a few of the fascinating sculptures/instillations on view at the Philip Beesly Architect Inc site. Via.
• J-Track 3D, a Java applet from NASA science which tracks man-made satellites in real-time. Click, rotate, & zoom! Fun for the whole dorky family. Via.
• Lastly the top ten trivia tips about The Nonist as revealed by The Mechanical Contrivium, Via, with apologies to those in the UK.
1. A lump of the nonist the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
2. The nonist can run sixty-five kilometres an hour - that’s really fast!
3. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are the nonist.
4. Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the nonist, and frequently rise to the surface for air.
5. Every day in the UK, four people die putting the nonist on.
6. The nonistomancy is the art of telling the future with the nonist!
7. Ancient Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by the nonist fighting underground!
8. Early thermometers were filled with the nonist instead of mercury.
9. The nonist is often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than the nonist.
10. The air around the nonist is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun.
Hi Jaime. The video of the eye was posted on Reddit a while back. The comments on it are worth a read.