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Caveman design keychain: blog image to 18K gold jewelry 3D print!
We’re having fun showing our most popular blog and photo posts can now be turned in real, shop-ready products thanks to the maker movement. As an example of data-driven social media, we repurposed a popular image from our social media feed into a 3D printed jewelry item available that is ready-for-purchase in 18K gold and other materials. (Separately, we also converted this blog photo into an in-game virtual reality object, permitting a virtual reality fashion shoot.) This caveman design keychain was co-designed and generated in part by an 11,000-year old caveman illustration of a woolly-mammoth in France. (You can read our original blog article with illustration here. Also, check out a cool data-driven social media video we created featuring some of these items, as well as more serious pop-scientific article on potentially de-extincting the woolly mammoth for interstellar space travel someday.) You can use the Shapeways widget below to manipulate the 3D object and see it from a variety of viewpoints (as well as buy the physical object in a wide-variety of materials, from the extremely inexpensive to the very expensive): So we can say that this keychain was truly co-designed by a French Cro-magnon caveman living 11,000 years ago.… Read the restMars One lander: candidate selection milestone
Shown here is an artist’s drawing for the Nasa Phoenix robot lander probe. Mars One is financing a scout probe based on this design to make an initial robotic survey trip, scheduled for 2018. Mars One was in the news today. Mars One achieved a major candidate selection milestone, narrowing down the candidates for their privately-funded one-way trip to Red Planet to 50 men and 50 women. We’re continuing our recent theme of photo posts on Martian colonization. THis theme is coincidentally just in time for this news. A one-way trip to a permanent space colony, with no possibility of return if something goes wrong, will greatly reduce the weight and complexity of the spacecraft. Mars One hopes it will shaves decades off the preparation time, albeit not without criticism for greatly increasing the risks to the explorers by eliminating the safety-net of a round trip. (Mars is still risky business, as becomes clear from the number of probes that have been lost over the years.)… Read the restLife on Mars: Artist concept drawing
Life on Mars: Continuing our recent Mars theme, this is a 2005 Nasa futuristic artist concept drawing of how life on the red planet might look. It is hoped within a few decades this science fiction scene will become science fact, and life on Mars will become a reality. (Why? There are concerns the colony is needed to mitigate against a growing list of existential threats to civilization. Not the least of these is mineral and rare earths depletion, which new technologies like the Martian colony might address. We’ve previously talked about existential threats to humanity as well as concerns about peak rare earths in our previous posts on the Singularity.) A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restNapoleon in Russia: Classic 19th Century Infographic
This is an amazing, classic 1869 French infographic and data visualization on Napoleon’s disastrous 1812-13 Russia campaign. Although it does not entirely fit into an Instagram square (this was originally published on IG), the very thick line in color is the Emperor of France’s army arriving. The extremely thin black lines are the surviving retreating troops staggering back home from Moscow. Frost bite and the bitter Russian winter were a major factor contributing to the heavy losses. (The temperature is shown in the bottom of the chart in Celsius, and you can see the impact of lower temperatures on the thinning black line. Had wind chills been understood in 1869, an even more dramatic correlation might have been possible.) This infographic is successful because it succinctly captures a great deal of information into a single figure. In addition to showing Napoleon’s dwindling troop strengths at various points in the campaign, a rough sense of chronology, geography (town names) and troop movements is given, together with the environmental conditions that contributed to the disaster. … Read the restRecent Posts
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