The net effect: because I decreased the amount of light emitted by my standing lamp, I now use two lights; reducing the electricity consumed by one light increased my total electricity consumption. Brilliant and definitely non-linear.
Category: Artsy (broadly)
Beautiful Etymology
Anandamide, the endogenous cannabanoid neurotransmitter; name comes from “the Sanskrit word ananda, which means ‘joy, bliss, delight.’” (I guess Vishy Anand, the chess player, gets his family name from this word too!) Coprolalia, the word for clinical profanity. Coprolalia […]
Musical Transformations: Word to sound and sound to kaleidoscopic color
I stumbled on some cool artistic transformations involving music and technology lately, and I thought I’d share / document them. 1. “Music Worth Watching.” I stumbled on a series of “animated graphical visualizations” of various […]
Michael Zoorob 