Secret ‘Bay Bridge Troll’ Guarded the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge for 24 Years
After the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, repair workers installed a steel mascot and protector on the eastern…
Using Neuroscience to Determine the Best Time to Drink Coffee
In this fascinating blog post, neuroscience researcher Steven Miller uses the power of science to determine the best time to have coffee. According to Miller,…
Internet Archive’s San Francisco Scanning Center Damaged by Fire
Early Wednesday morning the San Francisco scanning center for the Internet Archive was damaged in a fire. The scanning center is adjacent to the Archive’s…
Beauty of Mathematics, Video Beautifully Visualizes Math in Everyday Things
“BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS” is a fascinating short video that reveals the math behind everyday things like coffee, trees, and snowflakes through a triptych format: we…
The Nutritional Benefits of Fresh vs. Frozen Food by AsapScience
Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE compare the nutritional benefits of fresh versus frozen food in their latest video. Interestingly, they report that fresh…
Man Rides a Chair Down the Sidewalk in Stop Motion Sprint Commercial by PES
A man rides down the sidewalk on his easy chair in this 2007 stop motion animated commercial for Sprint by PES. According to PES, multiple…
Coffee-Themed Drawings on Coffee Filters by Ben Blake
Washington, D.C. coffee fiend Ben Blake makes drawings about his favorite beverage on a rather appropriate medium: coffee filters. The drawings focus on coffee culture…
Ghostly Painted Figures in an Abandoned Building in Leipzig
Danish artist Daan Botlek recently painted this trio of ghostly white figures on an abandoned building in Leipzig, Germany. The paintings were part of the…
Animated Photo GIFs of Mesmerizing Morphing Objects by Zack Dougherty
Digital artist Zack Dougherty adds pulsating, morphing, and moving objects to photographs in his curiously mesmerizing animated GIFs. In some of the GIFs he chooses…
Your House, A Model of a House Cut Out of the Pages of a Book
Artist Olafur Eliasson used a laser cutter to make a model of his house in the pages of a book for his sculpture, “Your House.”…