Interesting Links for 22-09-2013

[andrewducker]

• Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years
  (tags: globalwarming )
• Lucasfilm will combine video games and movies to axe post-production process
  (tags: games motioncapture cgi movies )
• Dung Beetles navigate Via the stars
  (tags: navigation stars insects )
• 13 Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs That Are All The Same
  (tags: life BenedictCumberbatch )
• The First

Comments

[cairmen]

"OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making"

Well, technically true - just like they've been being used in filmmaking for the last 16 years...

(Ironically, this comes just as I'm finally abandoning video game technology.)

[resonant]

Picture # 18 is an interesting and comfortable alternative to the iron lung in use at the time. Which weren't always made of iron.

When polio hit Ontario in the 1950s, a hospital janitor in Toronto (who had read an article in a US magazine about iron lungs) put together a plywood box with a vacuum system attached to an air compressor. It worked well enough that his first unit was flown to Colorado so the hospital there could copy it for their patients, until they could buy proper equipment.

[andrewducker]

That's fantastic. I wonder if that kind of thing happens at all nowadays...

[apostle_of_eris]

The historical temperature graph seems to show a serious decline in global temperature from 6,000 to 4,000 years ago -- when civilization was invented.
coincidence?

[andrewducker]

Good question!

[ashfae]

Stan Lee's Watchmen has me giggling madly in a library. I hope you're happy.

That global warming graph is even more shocking than I expected it to be.

[andrewducker]

I am very happy. About one of those things.