Here it is all in one list:
Most recently sent to you is at the top.
Ben Folds Sings the Muppet Theme
Date Sent: December 13, 2021OK so it’s not actually Ben Folds, but it’s a good video nonetheless.
All The Stuff
History of The Art of Research (Vi Hart)
Date Sent: December 1, 2021https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/ The Art of Research is a cool website that Vi Hart runs along with M Eifler. My favorite thing that they’ve made is Data Dignity, followed by I Fed Avocado Toast To An AI and Here’s What Happened. Both of which are worth a read. But my third favorite thing, and what I actually sent to your email was the history that led to The Art of Research existing at all....
99% Invisible - The Smell of Concrete After Rain
Date Sent: November 28, 2021Here’s the Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-invisible/id394775318?i=1000472965112 It talks about why Boston City Hall is a great building and Michael Sorkin’s 250 Things An Architect Should Know. It’s about a half hour long. You should listen to it. Here’s the episode webpage if you’d prefer that: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-smell-of-concrete-after-rain/
What Really Happened When Bill Gates Jumped the Chair
Date Sent: November 14, 2021Phil Edwards (of Vox) has his own YouTube channel. It’s pretty good. He made this video, and I think it’s funny and also an interesting take.
Weird Blimp Comparisons
Date Sent: November 12, 2021When I was making my BLIMPtwo site, I ended up looking at the Goodyear Blimp website, and found this very strange thing: Who decided to do this?!? Also, the thing it’s being compared to is NOT consistent; at one point it compares the pixel density to the previous blimp, but the Date of First Flight is compared to the date of the Wright Brothers first flight – which is a totally different kind of aircraft and notable because it’s the first heavier-than-air powered flight (whereas a blimp is notably lighter than air)....
Cliff Stoll's TED Talk
Date Sent: November 1, 2021I really love Cliff and also this talk. It’s amazing. You should watch it. You might really love it I think.
Philographics
Date Sent: October 30, 2021“It takes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 28,250 words to explain the woolly concept of relativism. It takes Genis Carreras 32 words and a single image. If you ask me, he doesn’t even need the text." https://studiocarreras.com/philographics There’s 49 in total, and you can get them as prints and postcards and things in case you want to decorate like a graphic-design-inclined Chidi Anagonye. Here’s what the one for relativism looks like:
Herman Miller Workspaces
Date Sent: October 26, 2021https://www.hermanmiller.com/stories/why-magazine/what-kind-of-place-are-you/ I made an unauthorized poster of Christoph Niemann’s illustration from this and hung it on my dorm room wall. I think my favorite is definitely Daniel Carlsten’s Very Long Table though.
Brexit Illustrated - Christoph Niemann
Date Sent: October 25, 2021https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/23/magazine/brexit-illustrated.html A NYT interactive story where he went to London and illustrated over photos he took to make a super compelling dispatch. This is what the opening page looks like:
Coffee Bias - Christoph Niemann
Date Sent: October 25, 2021There’s no link – this is the whole thing I wanted to show you. The text is Niemann’s. Here’s a chart that shows my coffee bias over the years. For good measure I have added my bagel preferences over the same period. Drip coffee Starbucks blueberry bagels sesame bagels poppy-seed bagels everything bagels Please don’t hold my brief affair with blueberry bagels against me. I cured myself of this aberration....