That's Interesting
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The spectacular power of Big Lens
24th September, 2018A long article but it provides an interesting insight into the eyewear industry and the two dominant companies within it that are in the process of merging.
Essilor is a prescription lens business that manufactures a large share of the worlds prescription lenses and Luxottica is known by many consumers through its retail brand Sunglass Hut.
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Neil and Liam Finn on KCRW
03rd September, 2018“They’ve been playing music together for many, many years, but father/son duo Neil and Liam Finn waited until the time was right to record a proper album together. We air a live session with the New Zealand favorites, hosted by Chris Douridas, on the release date for Lightsleeper.”
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Earliest Notebooks Now Digitized
03rd September, 2018“Famous worldwide as the painter of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) is also renowned for his notebooks in which he recorded his thoughts and inventions. Five of these fascinating notebooks, bound into three small volumes, have been in our collection since 1876 when they were bequeathed to the Museum by John Forster.”
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Tajik teacher makes hydroelectric station from soviet scrap
06th August, 201820-minute film about Raïmberdi Mamatumarov, a teacher and Biologist in Tajikistan who built a hydroelectric station out of soviet scraps.
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PBS: Don’t let the obsession with precision obscure the beauty of imperfection
06th August, 2018Simon Winchester on the idea of precision.
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St Louis Fed: How Did South Korea’s Economy Develop So Quickly?
30th July, 2018A look at how the South Korean economy industrialised, taking it from an agriculture-based economy in the 1960’s to become the 11th largest economy in the world in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016.
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Edvard Munch – >7600 works have been digitised
06th June, 2018The Edvard Munch museum has digitised most of the artist’s works in an online catalogue.
‘We hope this online catalogue will be a source of pleasure to a broad public that will now have the opportunity to become acquainted with a large and important – and previously somewhat hidden – part of Munch’s oeuvre, and be useful to researchers and anyone else with a special interest in Munch’s drawings and the important function they had for the artist Edvard Munch.’
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