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A physicist would marvel at some of the play behavior observed in young dolphins at the Project Delphis laboratory. They blow underwater bubble rings by injecting air into water vortices, about the thickness of a straw and 1 to 2 feet in diameter. The rings don't rise to the surface! The babies play with these underwater toys by moving them around with their rostrum, or biting them. They even bounce the rings off the wall, and elongate them with a flick of their dorsal fins into 15 foot corkscrews.
There's wonderful video of dolphins deftly playing with the rings of air they've created.
Distracted driving: Peer-to-peer network invites drivers to get connected: "CarTorrent could smarten up our daily commute, reducing accidents and bringing multimedia journey data to our fingertips."
Under the scheme, cars would be able to use their onboard radios to exchange three categories of information: safe navigation (such as reporting on icy road conditions, traffic jams and possible collisions ahead), content distribution (locally relevant information, advertisements and videos of upcoming attractions) and urban surveillance (collecting information which could be used later by police for forensic investigations).
Are you jumping for joy yet?
Studies in sepia: Packing tape art at roadside scholar:
works crafted from packing tape by ukraine born, philadelphia-based artist mark khaisman. these large archetypal images are made from layer upon layer of translucent packing tape, applied to plexiglass and then placed in front of a light box to give the image shadow and depth.
From an interview that pops up at the Library link on Khaisman's site,
-Why are you using this technique? -It looks right-Is your art all about unconventional medium?
-No, the overlapping of the layers of tape gives me the effect that I can not achieve otherwise,
-Let's say you can achieve the same effect with some traditional medium, egg tempera, for instance, or thin layers of oil, what will you loose besides the light?
-The feeling of instantaneousness
