21 Awesome Bookshelf Ideas You Need to See It’s every book lover’s dream to have an in-house library, and we’ve rounded up a few dozen beautiful bookshelf ideas to inspire your own! Check them out below, and then let us know in the comments which is your favorite. 1. The ceiling bookshelf Source 2. Source 3. Source 4. Source 5. Source 6. Source via Buzzfeed 7. Source via Buzzfeed 8. Source 9. Source 10. Source 11. Source 12. Source 13. Source 14. Source 15. Source 16. Source 17. Source 18. Source 19. Source 20. Source 21. Source Which bookshelf is your favorite?
Pantheon - Team Pantheon is a project from the Macro Connections group at The MIT Media Lab. We are a team of designers, engineers, and scientists working collaboratively to quantify, analyze, measure and visualize global culture. César A. Hidalgo Principal Investigator Concept Data Design Summer 2012 - present Amy Zhao Yu Graduate Student Data Development Content Fall 2012 - present Kevin Zeng Hu Graduate Student Development Design Data Summer 2013 - present Ali Almossawi Mozilla Corporation Shahar Ronen Graduate Alumnus Data Summer 2012 - Summer 2013 Deepak Jagdish Graduate Student Design Video 2013 - present Andrew Mao Graduate Student at Harvard Defne Gurel Undergraduate Tiffany Lu Undergraduate The Reading Net - Book Recommendations and Reviews I’m not sure it’s healthy for a 35 year-old man to be as jealous of these kids as I am. But you know what? If your family has a breathtaking, multistory home library AND a mid-room suspended reading net built just for you, then a whole bunch of book-loving grown-ass people are going to be jealous of you. That’s just how it works. PlayOffice, a Madrid-based interior design firm, was asked to think of something to make a family’s home library even more appealing and fun for kids. And this is what they did, and they get a gold star. We run a pretty sweet little bookish Instagram account, if we do say so ourselves (and we do).
Watch These Famous Landmarks Change Over Time Using "Mined" Tourists' Photos Been on holiday lately? Researchers from Google and the University of Washington have created this fascinating video below of famous landmarks changing and disappearing over time, using a whopping 86 million photos uploaded by tourists and travelers onto image-sharing sites. The tourists’ photos were publicly available on Flickr and Picasa, so researchers collated images and assembled them into a mini time-lapse video of each landmark. To counteract filters and lighting effects, the images were color-balanced and warped to show scenes from the same angle. The video of several time-lapses shows how famous landscapes, buildings and cityscapes change around the world over several years. Gif composed from video uploaded by YouTube user Ricardo Martin Brualla The snow-capped tops of Mount St. Gif composed from video uploaded by YouTube user Ricardo Martin Brualla [H/T Telegraph]
9 Famous Writers On Their Favorite Books — Because For Inspiration, You Should Go To The Inspired | Bustle We all have those books that we hold the closest to us. They’re the books we make a point to re-read once a year. The ones we take with us when we travel for long periods of time. The ones whose pages are so yellow and crinkled and filled with scribbles that no one else could read them but you. And if you’re a writer, these are the books that inspire you the most when creating your own work. If my favorite books were piled up together, the only thing they’d really have in common is that they’re bound and have covers. When I decided to search for famous writers’ favorite books, I read interviews, saw lists, and read bios that showed me that they’re inspired from as wide as range of novels, short stories, plays, poems, and comics as much as I am. Joyce Carol Oates Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass,” which my grandmother gave me when I was 9 years old and very impressionable. Zadie Smith
Einstein Vs Quantum Mechanics ... And Why He’d Be A Convert Today Albert Einstein may be most famous for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, but his work also laid down the foundation for modern quantum mechanics. His analysis of the “spookiness” of quantum mechanics opened up a whole range of applications including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics – and that story is as fascinating as the theory he attempted to nail down. Quantum mechanics is downright bizarre. It implies that a particle, such as an electron, can pass through two holes at the same time. More famously, German physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s equations proved that a cat could end up in a peculiar sort of quantum state, being neither dead nor alive. None of this impressed Einstein. At the time, most quantum physicists adopted the “shut up and calculate” philosophy: get on with the job, and don’t worry about philosophical issues – just get the predictions. Gaining momentum (and position) Then Eureka!
14 Beautiful Independent Bookshops In London Answering Cancer Quackery: The Sophisticated Approach to True Believers Answering Cancer Quackery: The Sophisticated Approach to True Believers You can lead a true believer to facts, but can you make him think? I got an e-mail with a link to a video featuring “Dr.” Leonard Coldwell, a naturopath who has been characterized on RationalWiki as a scammer and all-round mountebank. Every cancer can be cured in 2-16 weeks.The second you are alkaline, the cancer already stops. My correspondent recognized that this video was dangerous charlatanism that could lead to harm for vulnerable patients. He asked, “How do I best represent what’s happening to someone who is either a) emotionally invested in this and/or b) casually approving of it? Here’s how I answered him You can’t change someone else’s mind; they have to change their own mind. If alkalinization works so well to eliminate cancer, why do you suppose he bothers to recommend a lot of other ways to cure cancer, with vitamin C, oxygen, a vegan diet, etc? Don’t expect to “win.” Further thoughts The Socratic method
Author Colson Whitehead Explains Five Books Picked Randomly from His Collection -- New York Magazine Critics use up a lot of ink ferreting out their favorite writers’ sources, but what if you could go through an author’s bookshelves, pick a few volumes, and ask for yourself? That’s what we’ve decided to do, starting with Colson Whitehead. The Ecstatic by Victor Lavalle I got this from his editor, Chris Jackson, who wanted me to write a blurb for it, which I did. I met Victor when his first book, Slapboxing With Jesus, came out, and we did an awkward reading together in Hoboken at Maxwell’s. I think we were reading to six people—and one of them was this book collector who comes in with stacks of ten, gets them signed, and sells them on eBay. Victor’s a nice guy. The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy This was really useful for me when I was starting The Intuitionist. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson, 1964 edition I have no recollection of Old Yeller. The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee I’m definitely a Marvel guy.
How does the thyroid manage your metabolism? - Emma Bryce | TED-Ed For such a tiny organ that looks a lot like a butterfly, the thyroid gets a lot of attention. But it makes sense when you consider just how vital its task is: this gland helps to control the body's metabolism. If you're stuck trying to grasp why that's important and what exactly metabolism is, check out this helpful video, and read more about the thyroid's role here and here. The tools your thyroid uses to get the job done are triiodothyronine (T3) (that's a tricky word: learn how to say it!) Since it works 24/7, it may seem like the thyroid is the boss in this situation. But when the all-powerful pituitary fails, your body really feels it, in the shape of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Keep up to date on thyroid news and research with the American Thyroid Association and the British Thyroid Foundation—and even when you're not learning about this important gland, remember that it will keep on doing its job in the background.
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