- “Spacebloom: A Field Guide to Cosmic Xflora”. What? Via last roundup’s Complete Review.
- The Bulbdial Clock: a clock that has lights instead of hands
- Went down a bit of a slide rule rabbit hole…
- How the Netherlands feeds the world with the future of technology. Please stand for the national anthem.
- New otter species just dropped
- Richard Eijiro von Coudenhove-Kalergi, the half-Japanese Euro-federalist count who suggested “Ode to Joy” as the continent’s anthem and thought all races and castes would merge in the future into “something like the Ancient Egyptians”
- A self-stabilising robotic tail designed for astronauts in microgravity. OwO?
- One blasted level is all that stands between the Super Mario Maker community and finishing every level ever uploaded before Nintendo shuts down the servers in two weeks.
- Further proof mathematics is evil and fake: Chaitin’s constants, numbers which exist but whose value we can never know.
- The new Porter Robinson track is, of course, a banger.
P.S. I was listening to Holst’s “The Planets” the other day for inspiration and it has substantially increased my resolve that John Williams is a hack. First he ruins Minority Report, then he cribs the imperial march in The Adventures of Cardboard Luke and His Annoying Friends from “Mars, Bringer of War”… this man must be stopped!