photos
[gallery]
This is a map of NYC by MapBox showing smartphone usage according to Twitter data. iPhone is red, Android green and Blackberry purple.
[gallery]
Fun fact of the day: lake Taal in the Phillipines is an island within a lake within an island within a lake within an island.
[gallery]
Meet Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 73 year old Excel artist. This guy made all the art here on Excel:
“Graphics software is expensive but Excel comes pre-installed in most computers,” explained Horiuchi. “And it has more functions and is easier to use than [Microsoft] Paint.”
[gallery]
This is the perfect Pinterest photo with more than 307 000 repins. Follow the source link to learn why.
[gallery]
Where the atheists are in the world.
[gallery]
Game of Thrones characters re-imagined as 1990s stereotypes.
[gallery]
This is a 7-minute long workout that has been scientifically designed to optimise your exercise session. It also only needs you, a wall and a chair.
See source to read more about this.
[gallery]
Jimi Hendrix, jamming with Miles Davis sent a telegram to Paul McCartney in 1969 as he thought it would be cool that they jam all together, with Tony Williams at the drums.
Unfortunately this never happened.
[gallery]
Chinese DIY inventions.
The caption accompanying this one:
Chinese farmer Wu Yulu sits next to his robot “Lao Wu” at his home on the outskirts of Beijing, on September 3, 2003. Wu, who only managed to finish primary education, started to build robots for fun more than a decade ago.
[gallery]
The Stanford researcher Cheri D. Mah found that when she got male basketball players to sleep 10 hours a night, their performances in practice dramatically improved: free-throw and three-point shooting each increased by an average of 9 percent.
Daytime naps have a similar effect on performance. When night shift air traffic controllers were given 40 minutes to nap — and slept an average of 19 minutes — they performed much better on tests that measured vigilance and reaction time.
Longer naps have an even more profound impact than shorter ones. Sara C. Mednick, a sleep researcher at the University of California, Riverside, found that a 60- to 90-minute nap improved memory test results as fully as did eight hours of sleep.
Research confirms that, counterintuitively, relaxing makes you more productive. Of course, Thomas Edison knew that sleep is the key to success.
Artwork by Golden Cosmos
Go to sleep, relax.
[gallery]
If Super Mario characters were hipsters.
[gallery]
How Muslims see Women’s rights around the world. A survey conducted by Pew, courtesy of The Atlantic.
[gallery]
Behind the scenes photos of Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Update: here’s the source link.
[gallery]
An interesting Japanese hairstyle: Ripe Tomato.
[gallery]
Historical figures as they would be today. There is also Admiral Nelson, Shakespeare, Elizabeth I and Marie-Antoinette.
[gallery]
11 ways to be unremarkably average.
[gallery]
Happy End is a project by photographer Dietmar Eckell which documents airplane crashes where everyone survived.
Get the book there.
[gallery]
Where famous artists create. Respectively John Lennon, Mark Rothko and Marc Chagall.
Buzzfeed has more.
[gallery]
The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses – Walter Benjamin’s timeless advice on writing, 1928.
Interesting.
