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The Ghost Shrimp | Image of the Week Image of the Week #53, July 30th, 2012: From: Hitchhiking jellyfish, gonad-loving parasites and the skeleton shrimp by Becky Crew at Running Ponies. Source: Alexander Semenov The alien creatures in movies like Prometheus still pale next to the dreamlike unpredictability of actual ocean-biodiversity. Caprella septentrionalis, seen here in a photo from the amazing biologist and photographer Alexander Semenov, looks impossible, menacing and whimsical all at once. ” …sometimes the subjects seemed to have been taken from the nightmarish dreams of science, and hark back to prehistoric times; monstrous flora bloomed on the rocks; everywhere…,” Huysmans, describing art by Symbolist Odilon Redon.
Howmuch.net - Understanding Money 'Dear Data' book by @giorgialupi + @stefpos now available for pre-order! Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in. To find out how to become a member see here. Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Sept conseils pour ne pas se faire avoir par les représentations graphiques Peut-on avoir confiance dans un « camembert » ? Un axe vertical doit-il forcément commencer à zéro ? A quel point une carte peut-elle être trompeuse ? LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Mathilde Damgé La grève des employés de la SNCF est aussi une bataille de communication, dans laquelle chaque élément compte. 1. Ces bâtons, qu’on appelle aussi histogrammes, sont censés représenter des rapports de grandeur. Il aurait fallu privilégier une représentation s’appuyant sur un axe des ordonnées à zéro, comme ici : Ce n’est par ailleurs pas la première fois que le service de communication de la SNCF joue avec la notion d’échelle pour minimiser le taux de participation des grévistes : un communiqué de presse diffusé le 4 avril utilisait les mêmes méthodes aux mêmes fins. Lire aussi cet autre exemple : Air France : pourquoi il faut se méfier des graphiques 2. Sauf que l’axe des ordonnées ne commence pas à zéro, ce qui donne à la « pente » une courbe beaucoup plus forte qu’elle ne l’est en réalité.
Deep Green Cuts: Reading Tree Rings - Media Aside from the gentle rustling of leaves in the breeze or the creaking of a bough in a winter gale, a tree’s character may best be described as “the strong and silent type”—but, as so often is the case with such personalities, they have the most hauntingly beautiful stories to tell. For nearly a century, dendrochronologists have practiced reading tree rings for clues about the lives of trees. And though the field of study has helped shed light on historic growth cycles for scientists, it’s all been rather dry and clinical. But now, thanks to a special turntable designed to read tree rings as if they were tracks on an LP, a tree’s biography can be heard like its very own discography. German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck recently debuted a record player he developed that is capable of digitally reading tree slices and translating them into moving piano music.
Spurious Correlations Chart-Topping Songs as Graphs and Diagrams Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in. To find out how to become a member see here. Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Série graphique Ce kit pédagogique propose aux professeurs de collège de sensibiliser leurs élèves aux créations de design graphique. Il permet de découvrir l’influence du design graphique sur l’environnement visuel et propose une sensibilisation à la typographie, à la mise en page ou aux relations sémantiques entre mots et images.Souvent confrontés à des choix graphiques lors de la mise en page de leurs travaux scolaires, du choix d'un caractère typographique, d'une image ou d'une couleur, les élèves approchent et utilisent les notions clés du design graphique souvent sans en avoir conscience. Le kit contient des éléments inducteurs de manipulations et des éléments de connaissances, notamment sur l’évolution du design graphique ou sur les problématiques soulevées par l’accumulation des signes. Les élèves peuvent, grâce à diverses fiches, outils et autres dispositifs, découvrir et s’essayer à la création d’une typographie, d’un visuel et d’éléments faisant appel au design graphique.
How Does the Brain Perceive Art? | Wired Science In 1995, the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted a controversial exhibition entitled “Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt,” in which works considered to be genuine Rembrandts were displayed alongside those done by his students and admirers. (These lesser paintings are often dismissed as “the school of Rembrandt.”) The point of the exhibition was to reveal the fine line between genius and imitation, authenticity and fakery. A hundred years ago, about 700 works were attributed to Rembrandt. Over the course of the 20th century, that number declined by 50 percent, as critics and historians began searching for those tell-tale marks that distinguish the old master from his young pupils. What accounts for this staggering difference in value? The second possibility is that our aesthetic judgements are really complicated. To test these competing hypotheses, a team of researchers at Oxford University, including Mengfei Huang, Holly Bridge, Martin Kemp and Andrew Parker, set up a simple experiment.
• Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies Anatomy of a Series – Lostalgic by Santiago Ortiz (@moebio) Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in. To find out how to become a member see here. Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Carte des déploiements fibre (FttH) Cette carte est publiée par l’Arcep dans le but d’améliorer l’information du grand public et des professionnels sur les déploiements des réseaux de fibre optique jusqu’à l’abonné. Établie tant à la maille de la commune qu’à la maille technique (généralement infracommunale), elle fait partie de l’observatoire du haut et du très haut débit fixe mis en place par l’Autorité et s’accompagne de la publication des données sous-jacentes en open data. Les locaux raccordables au réseau FttH correspondent aux logements ou locaux à usage professionnel raccordables à un réseau de communications à très haut débit en fibre optique par l’intermédiaire d’un point de mutualisation. Les opérateurs transmettent à l’Arcep des données détaillées sur leur déploiement de réseaux en fibre optique. Le taux de couverture FttH d’une commune évalue la proportion des logements ou locaux à usage professionnel raccordables à un ou plusieurs réseaux FttH. Le mode avancé propose quatre vues supplémentaires : Programmé :
Study finds that spoilers aren't such a big deal As any citizen of the Internet knows, people tend to lose their minds at the slightest hint of a “spoiler,” the definition of which seems to vary wildly between extremes, from stuff like knowing the ending of a movie ahead of time to merely knowing that the movie will end, GODDAMN IT, WHERE WAS THE SPOILER ALERT THAT THE MOVIE WOULD END? I HOPE YOU GOT FIRED FOR THAT. Anyway, much of this reaction is based on a hypothesis that knowing beforehand what will happen in a story will negatively affect, or “spoil” your enjoyment of it. Psychologists there recently ran an experiment in which a group of 30 people were given 12 separate short stories they’d never read before, by the likes of Raymond Carver, Agatha Christie, Anton Chekhov, Roald Dahl, and John Updike—some presented as-is, some with an introductory paragraph that gave away the ending, and some with that paragraph incorporated into the text.