These are books I’ve read within the past 20 years or so that I consider remarkable in one way or another. They have given me new ideas and genuinely fresh insights, changed the way I view the world, or left … Continue reading
A brilliant data visualization by Pjotr Theebe, posted on Facebook by Anonymous ART of the Revolution. The picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The … Continue reading
Today as I was rummaging in the vegetable drawer of our refrigerator, I happened to notice a label on the asparagus saying it had come from Mexico, and it sparked a thought that has often occurred to me for many … Continue reading
Paul MacCready solved the very challenging problem of human-powered flight by first realizing he needed a way to speed up the process of trying, failing, recovering, and trying something a little different. With the ability to iterate quickly, he created … Continue reading
Our technology is now such that we can collect massive quantities of data and process it into visualizations of what’s happening over the entire earth. The visualization above shows ocean surface currents around the world as a time-lapse animation over … Continue reading