(via David Attenborough on BBC Radio 1)
Occam’s Razor. Antrepo over on Behance has offered some alternate versions of brand-name packaging. First is the original version, followed by a simpler variation, followed by the simplest.
Check ’em all out here.
Brain Pickings put together a roster of thirty-seven writers for whom wake-up times were available. It became the base data set around which the set out to quantify, then visualize, the literary productivity of each author.
The end result — a labor of love months in the making — is this magnificent visualization of the correlation between writers’ wake-up times, displayed in clock-like fashion around each portrait, and their literary productivity, depicted as different-colored “auras” for each of the major awards and stack-bars for number of works published, color-coded for genre. The writers are ordered according to a “timeline” of earliest to latest wake-up times, beginning with Balzac’s insomniac 1 A.M. and ending with Bukowski’s bohemian noon.
From the BBC TV science series Horizon in 1992, the story of the British genius and World War II hero Alan Turing. A mathematician and codebreaker, Turing’s credited as the father of computer science and the internet.
You’ll be hearing lots more about Turing and the WWII codebreakers soon, with The Imitation Game hitting theaters this year.
Embedding’s been disabled for this, but you can watch it on YouTube.
