Modern Science Map
500 Years of Science, Reason & Critical Thinking via the medium of gross over simplification, dodgy demarcation, glaring omission and a very tiny font.
The map of modern science was created to celebrate the achievements of the scientific method through the age of reason, the enlightenment and modernity.
Despite many of the scientific disciplines mapped having more ancient origins, I have restricted the map to modern science starting from the 16th century scientific revolution.
The map primarily includes modern scientists who have made significant advances to our understanding of the world, however I have also included many present day scientists who fuel a passion for, and advances in, science through communication and science popularisation.
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David Lynch Paintings Exhibition
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Posted: January 31st, 2010
at 12:08pm by Black Ock
Categories: art,film,art theory
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Jack London Gets Stuey
Life has a list of famous literary drunks and drug addicts. Check it out by clicking into the gallery below,
(Addition to gallery, suggested by a reader.) "I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn’t want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink." From John Barleycorn, 1913
A la Carte Maps
A la Carte Maps, where you have a local friend in exciting cities all over the world.
Notable Art Gaffes
After a woman put her elbow through a priceless Picasso at the Met, The Globe & Mail has a list of other notable art-world gaffes. Below is an excerpt:
The James Ossuary, which some believe once contained the remains of Jesus’s brother, arrived at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto from Tel Aviv in the fall of 2002. Although reportedly worth $2-million (U.S.), the limestone container had developed at least five cracks in transit, the result of having been flown to Canada in a cardboard box filled with bubble wrap.
Marc Quinn calls it an ‘urban myth,’ but others insist that it’s true. Reportedly a self-portrait bust that Quinn made from nine frozen pints of his own blood melted in the freezer of legendary London art collector Charles Saatchi after decorators working on his kitchen pulled the plug. Quinn’s blood busts currently sell for $1-million (U.S.) each and it reportedly takes him at least one year to accumulate the necessary blood. Read More.
Posted: January 27th, 2010
at 1:05pm by Black Ock
Tagged with picasso, met, gaffe, oops
Categories: art,real life news
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Ninja School: Day Two
This cat has way more skills than those last hacks.
Posted: January 27th, 2010
at 11:33am by Black Ock
Categories: youtube,ninjas are everyehere
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Ninja School: Day One

Posted: January 27th, 2010
at 9:36am by Black Ock
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Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday. A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network. Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded. Read more.