This is a chronological gallery of physical visualizations and related artifacts, maintained by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.208.6726&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Luminous-Lint is used worldwide by curators, educators, photography students, photohistorians, collectors and photographers to better understand the many histories of photography.
Comprehensive overview of existing tools, strategies and thoughts on interacting with your data
TLDR: when I read I try to read actively, which for me mainly involves using various tools to annotate content: highlight and leave notes as I read. I've programmed data providers that parse them and provide nice interface to interact with this data from other tools. My automated scripts use them to render these annotations in human readable and searchable plaintext and generate TODOs/spaced repetition items.
In this post I'm gonna elaborate on all of that and give some motivation, review of these tools (mainly with the focus on open source thus extendable software) and my vision on how they could work in an ideal world. I won't try to convince you that my method of reading and interacting with information is superior for you: it doesn't have to be, and there are people out there more eloquent than me who do that. I assume you want this too and wondering about the practical details.
An interactive map of the evolutionary relationships between 1.8 million species of life on our planet. Each leaf on the tree represents a species and the branches show how they are connected through evolution. Discover your favourites, see which species are under threat, and wonder at over 100,000 images on a single page.
The history of the world in famous people’s lifespans since -2700BC.
With each time a link to the english wikipedia page.
A strange loop is a hierarchy of levels, each of which is linked to at least one other by some type of relationship. A strange loop hierarchy is "tangled" (Hofstadter refers to this as a "heterarchy"), in that there is no well defined highest or lowest level; moving through the levels, one eventually returns to the starting point, i.e., the original level. Examples of strange loops that Hofstadter offers include: many of the works of M. C. Escher, the information flow network between DNA and enzymes through protein synthesis and DNA replication, and self-referential Gödelian statements in formal systems.
In I Am a Strange Loop, Hofstadter defines strange loops as follows:
And yet when I say "strange loop", I have something else in mind — a less concrete, more elusive notion. What I mean by "strange loop" is — here goes a first stab, anyway — not a physical circuit but an abstract loop in which, in the series of stages that constitute the cycling-around, there is a shift from one level of abstraction (or structure) to another, which feels like an upwards movement in a hierarchy, and yet somehow the successive "upward" shifts turn out to give rise to a closed cycle. That is, despite one's sense of departing ever further from one's origin, one winds up, to one's shock, exactly where one had started out. In short, a strange loop is a paradoxical level-crossing feedback loop. (pp. 101-102)
This is an online edition of the classic technical reference Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brown.
This site contains the original illustrations and text from the 21st edition of the book, published in 1908. It also includes animated versions of the illustrations, and occasional notes by the webmaster.
The animated versions are not yet complete. They are identified by color images in the thumbnail pages.
Pourquoi sourit-on sur les portraits photographiques au XXe siècle, et pas au XIXe siècle? Sous cette forme élémentaire, la question est devenue une énigme prisée des études visuelles. Héritière d’une longue tradition d’analyse de l’expression des émotions, elle apparaît comme une évolution historique directement observable, documentée par des sources abondantes. Découvrir la clé de cette métamorphose paraît à portée de main.
Build beautiful interactive books using GitHub/Git and Markdown.
“Crate Diggers” profiles people with extraordinary vinyl record collections, with owners displaying and telling the stories behind their collections.
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Amongst the many freely available pieces of art released by Getty are a number of quite famous images, including work by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Leonardo da Vinci. The 4,600 pieces of artwork available are just the beginning, as well. Getty says that it's actively exploring the possibility of releasing much more art into the public domain, both from the museum's collection as well as materials from the Getty Research Institute's special collections. While Getty isn't the first museum to push forward with an open artwork initiative (the museum cited a number of institutions like the Walters Art Museum as inspirations for the movement), it's the latest example of how the internet is making classic, famous works more accessible.
History of Art, browse By Movement.
All news is local news. Local perspectives on global news. In your language.
We have indexed all newspapers and plotted their correct locations, in 39 countries. Might have missed some. And most newspapers in another 199 countries, a bunch of them not in their correct locations.
The site started life as an illustrated reference book of weird and wonderful Gods. But when the first draft was put online, the concept exploded in all directions and demanded a site of its very own. Thus Godchecker.com was born.
Explore l'Histoire de France à travers les collections des musées et les documents d'archives
WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique.
The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Large photos of pure chemical elements from the periodic table, published under a Creative Commons license.
Home of the Internet's most complete country profiles. This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.
Une synthèse simple pour connaître ce que vous êtes en droit de copier et diffuser gratuitement, sans vous plonger dans le Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CPI - attention, droit français uniquement). Avec une incursion facultative dans le droit