Hey,
Remember when you wanted what you currently have? -1
The pandemic has set all of our plans back and that feeling of not being where you want to be or where you’d thought you’d be ‘by now’ is more prominent than ever.
So take a sec to add some perspective to your day, you’re doing great and don’t worry you’ve got time.
I’ve got some really big ideas for C’mere to me, and I can’t wait to see them through over the next few months, thank you so much for reading these.
Anyway, C’mere to me…
Bits
Product Care 🧵
Patagonia has a page dedicated to product care and repair videos, from fixing zips to buttons to patching and washing.
“One of the most responsible things you can do as a consumer is to keep your stuff in play as long as possible–and our care and repair tutorials can help you do that.”
Bridges of the Euro Notes 🌉
Many of you may not have held a cash note in months, but nevertheless, this is cool.
The bridges that adorn the back of the Euro notes are completely fictional, and deliberately so, no one country could complain if they just didn’t exist.
The first euro note designs, by Robert Kalin, were unveiled in 2001 2 and the bridges ‘symbolise the close co-operation and communication between Europe and the rest of the world’. They represent styles of bridges from all across Europe as well as a mix of different architectural eras.
However, did you know that back in 2013, Dutch designer Robert Stam3 brought them all to life by building mini versions…
You can actually visit them in Spijkenisse, Holland.
Interesting
Drawing Icebergs Wrong? 🧊
I stumbled on this thread by Megan Thompson-Munson, a PhD student studying glaciers and climate science, and I thought she made a cool point.
“A floating elongated iceberg can satisfy the buoyancy requirements of Archimedes’s principle in many orientations, but most, including that depicted in figure 1, turn out to be unstable. To see an example of such an instability, take a wine cork and immerse it in water in any orientation. Upon release, the cork will rise to the surface and float only with its long axis horizontal—that is, parallel to the surface of the water.”
(read more - PhysicsToday)
Then software developed, Joshua Tauberer, off the back of Megan’s tweet, built this little website.
Although this simulation is very very basic, you can draw any shaped iceberg and it’ll emulate how it might actually float.
You can try here - Iceberger
^ much more fun than it looks.
Smile 😊
Watch 📺
Indian or Native American?
Saved 📷
Think 🌊
Signing contracts with blood actually makes sense. A written signature can be forged or ambiguous, but the DNA test will always show whose signature it is.
That’s all 🤙🏽
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