Links

via cityofsound: ‘The “Neuland Question”… How did these two typefaces come to signify Africans and African-Americans, regardless of how a designer uses them, and regardless of the purpose for which their creators originally intended them?’

via Ivy Alvarez, predictions made by the great mathematical biologist J.B.S. Haldane in 1923 for life 200 years on. An odd mixture of the perceptive, the nutty and the straightforwardly wrong. And for some of them I guess it’s still too soon to tell.

‘The scratch marks date back to the last ice age, more than 12,000 years ago… They measured the furrows to be around 750 m wide and 40 m deep’

‘The new models show that Argentavis magnificens, which was approximately the size of a modern-day Cessna 152 light aircraft, flew by gliding rather than by flapping’

via A&LD: an article about the uneasy relationship between academic medievalists and the medievalism of Renaissance Faires and World of Warcraft

via Ben Goldacre: A former bomb-disposal expert on the fundamental ineptness of the attempted terror attacks at the weekend.

A physicist and an artist/designer/architect discuss design, structure, symmetry, folding and that kind of thing.