If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a group.
– African proverb
Month: February 2012
Wordpharmacy is a concrete poetical work, which playfully equates the structure of language with pharmaceutical products. It consists of ten medicine boxes, each representing one of the ten word-groups. Each box contains a leaflet that functions as an instructional poem, guiding the reader’s ingestion of the given word group.
(via Wordpharmacy Family)
Under the Microscope #6
Cancer cells get attacked by a killer T cell in this video by University of Cambridge researchers.
Cytotoxic T cells are very precise and efficient killers. They are able to destroy infected or cancerous cells, without destroying healthy cells surrounding them.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Countries & Colour by Jerod Gibson
This is an ongoing series of geographic prints. I’ve been wanting to do a series with a digi-watercolor style for awhile as well as doing something that involved countries. The two parts seemed to go hand in hand very good, and melded into a nice minimalistic abstract designs.
I picked the USA one, but there are more here.
Pick one goal for all your priorities
Scott Adams shares the one goal he focuses on that serves the multiple priorities in his life.
The way I approach the problem of multiple priorities is by focusing on just one main goal: energy. I make choices that maximize my personal energy because that makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities. Maximizing my personal energy means eating right, exercising, avoiding unnecessary stress, getting enough sleep, and all of the obvious steps. But it also means having something in my life that makes me excited to wake up. When I get my personal energy right, the quality of my work is better, and I can complete it faster. That keeps my career on track. And when all of that is working, and I feel relaxed and energetic, my personal life is better too.
Besides the obvious one (energy) what singular goal could keep competing priorities in order?
The Scale of the Universe 2
The universe is big. Scroll in to the smallest particle and out to the observable universe.
Age-Maps
Bobby Neel Adams spliced together photos of six individuals from when they were children and adults to make these interesting Age-Maps.
Why text?
Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, spoke to Stephen Hackett of 512pixles about why he chooses text as his medium of choice.
Text is an amazingly versatile medium. Relative to other media, text has very low production costs, both in authorship and distribution. One person can produce a great essay or even a complete book. It’s much harder to be a one-person filmmaker. And since text as a medium does not have a fixed timescale like audio and video, it can be easily skimmed or read at any desired speed. In the digital world, text becomes even more useful. It takes up almost no space by today’s standards, it can be easily indexed and analyzed, and tools like mine can edit, restructure, and reflow it to do all sorts of different things. The ease of producing, distributing, and messing around with text has resulted in an effectively infinite supply of great expression, information, and entertainment being written and read in this wonderful medium. Whatever you want to read, there’s already more of it than you could read in a lifetime, and there’s probably more being produced right now.
And this is why I love reading on my Kindle via Instapaper and Klip.me. It’s great for reading text…and not much else, which means I can focus on reading without distractions.