Good thinking
Color By Number: The Gorgeous, Obsessive U.S. Maps of Paula Scher
As somebody who couldn't draw a basic table at school without it undergoing 58 corrections I'm at a loss as to how she knew she wouldn't run out of space for all the numbers and letters.
Explore Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights in an amazing, annotated interactive
If you want to skip the words and go straight to the main event, go here.
Good writing
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
Aside from this being so enjoyable to read, there are two killer explanatory points that take it from good to great: the first is about the media's role in Trump's ascendancy and the second is about the effect of corporatism - the insurance 'fiefdom' and the big pharma stranglehold - on politics and how he's able to use it to great (and almost truthful) effect.
'Woody Johnson, one of the heirs of drug giant Johnson & Johnson (and the laughably incompetent owner of the New York Jets), is the finance chief for the campaign of whipping boy Jeb Bush.
"Now, let's say Jeb won. Which is an impossibility, but let's say ... "
The crowd explodes in laughter.
"Let's say Jeb won," Trump goes on. "How is it possible for Jeb to say, ‘Woody, we're going to go out and fight competitively' ?"
This is, what – not true? Of course it's true.'
Mmm Technology
Robotic Parasite Helps Drummers Keep The Beat
Not entirely sure giving drummers extra limbs is the most useful application of robotics given that they can do things like this and this and this and this with just four, but still. Progress is progress.
