7 essential knots you need to know
Aside from tying shoes, a lot of people don’t know, or need a refresher on tying knots. Knowing these knots will get you through most situations you will encounter, and they are the ones...
Monthly Archive: November 2018
How to build an ultra realistic river
A complete in depth guide into building an amazing river scene that will drastically improve the detail on any model layout. [Via: Luke Towan]
Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years ago
Microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years earlier in the history of the Earth than previously thought. The finding could change ideas of how and when complex life evolved on...
Singapore: city of the future
With visionary thinkers and innovators as the guides, City of the Future: Singapore dives deep into the latest innovations and technology being created and implemented to blaze a path into the future. [Via: National Geographic]
Stung by a Japanese giant hornet
The Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica) is a subspecies of the world’s largest hornet, the Asian giant hornet. It is a large insect, with adults frequently growing to greater than 4,5 centimeters long,...
The Shinkansen story
In 1964, Japan unveiled the Shinkansen – a new high speed railway connecting the country’s two largest cities (in the 1960’s), Tokyo and Osaka. Travelling at speeds in excess of 200 km/h, the new...
Log cabin construction without power tools
No talking viral timelapse video of Shawn James off grid log cabin build by one man alone in the wilderness of Canada, from 1st tree cut to last floor board laid. [Via: My Self Reliance]
Don’t be evil
Surveillance capitalism is a novel market form and a specific logic of capitalist accumulation that was first described in a 2014 essay by business theorist and social scientist Shoshana Zuboff. She characterized it as...
Sentinelese
The Sentinelese, also known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are a pre-Neolithic indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island, located in the Bay of Bengal in India. An uncontacted people, the...
Download 569 free art books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
MetPublications is offering five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free. Back in 2014, the Met put online 400,000 free art images. So have a look at MetPublications’...