Maria's Linkblog

Nov 22

NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio composites satellite images of the Earth into short animations. You can watch them all at the above linked website in low resolutions all the way up to 1080p HD.

Nov 21

mermay:

robot-heart:

Keep Portland Beard letterpress print by powerandlight on Etsy

“Urban sprawl is not mindless at all. There is nothing inevitable about its development. Sprawl is the result of zoning laws designed by legislators, low-density buildings designed by developers, marketing strategies designed by ad agencies, tax breaks designed by economists, credit lines designed by banks, geomatics designed by retailers, data-mining software designed by hamburger chains, and automobiles designed by car designers. The interactions between all these systems and human behavior are complicated and hard to understand— but the policies themselves are not the result of chance. “Out of control” is an ideology, not a fact.” — John Thackara, from In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (via jayparkinsonmd)

hiten:

The Exploding Internet (via dougbelshaw)

Nov 19

[video]

Oil wells in the morning (via the morning news)

Nov 18

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a breakdown of the six levels of thinking, from the lowest level to the highest (example):

Knowledge: Knowing a fact. Knowing 2 + 2 = 4, doesn’t mean you know what 2+2=4 means.
Application: Knowing how to use the fact. I can determine that 2 cats plus 2 cats equals 4 cats. You don’t know what 2 +2 =4 means, but you can apply it.
Comprehension — Understanding a fact: You understand the concept of addition and how 2 + 2 = 4.
Analysis — breaking down information into its parts. 4 - 2 =2 ; (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) = 2 + 2 = 4
Synthesis — creating something new , writing a book, etc.
Evaluation — Discussion of the merits of 2 + 2 = 4 .

Nov 17

allofher:

IT IS WHAT IT IS , 2x4

You don’t know how many times I have heard this phrase in the office environment. Graphic design firm 2x4 released a book by the same name, illustrating “a portrait of a studio in 1000 images.” And it comes in 6 different colors.