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How do Centrifugal and Coriolis forces affect the motion of particles as the speed of rotation is varied? This animation shows how the underlying grid of my previous post is warped at differing speeds of rotation. Note the square grid when there is no rotation. [code] [video]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/39935a1c08a79f5fac5a5c450d94d3ff/tumblr_mmt8zmMo3f1qfg7o3o1_400.gif)
How do Centrifugal and Coriolis forces affect the motion of particles as the speed of rotation is varied? This animation shows how the underlying grid of my previous post is warped at differing speeds of rotation. Note the square grid when there is no rotation. [code] [video]
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Though it seems as though the top row of diamonds is darker than the bottom, all the diamonds are actually identical. The sliding diamond seems to get darker as it ascends, but is in fact unchanging. Illusions like this demonstrate that our perception of the darkness of an object is highly dependent on context. [based on] [code]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/91f42c960a94c92a21385a9805d1561d/tumblr_mmoxtt1yqT1qfg7o3o1_400.gif)
Though it seems as though the top row of diamonds is darker than the bottom, all the diamonds are actually identical. The sliding diamond seems to get darker as it ascends, but is in fact unchanging. Illusions like this demonstrate that our perception of the darkness of an object is highly dependent on context. [based on] [code]
All Things dōTERRA: EO Spotlight: Stay Calm with Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender is one of dōTERRA’s best selling essential oils and for good reason. Lavender essential oil can be used in hundreds of different ways from helping you sleep better to reducing stress.
Lavender is known as the ‘calming oil’ and is often used to assist in balancing the body….
I want this!!!
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I’ll be joining a killer lineup of folks next week to talk about design entrepreneurship, which is totally a thing now. The panel will include Peter Buchanan-Smith (Best Made Co.), Kate Bingaman-Burt (Daily Drawings), Tom Gerhardt (Studio Neat), and myself.
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Thursday, May 16th | 6:30-8:30pm
Kern & Burn: A Conversation with Design Entrepreneurs—
“Today’s designers realize that they have all of the skills necessary to create successful businesses and build careers without clients.
This panel will feature candid conversations with leading design entrepreneurs who have founded startups, channeled personal passions into self-made careers, and taken risks to do what they love. Join us as we discuss whether the client-service model is a thing of the past and discover how these pioneers push the definition of design.”
The discussion will be co-moderated by Tim Hoover and Jessica Karle Heltzel, authors of the book, Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs. Leave with your own copy of the book, which will be available for purchase at check-in and during the PostScript after the talk!
npr:
8 Successful Entrepreneurs Give Their Younger Selves Lessons They Wish They’d Known Then
Tim Westergren, the founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pandora:
“Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells you they’re compelling, be fearless in their pursuit,” Westergren said. Nothing is more haunting than thinking, ‘I wish I had…’”
Read the rest here.
Related: NPR’s Susan Stamberg shared her advice to her younger self a couple of weeks ago as part of our “Changing Lives of Women” series. — tanya b.
The Summer of Gatsby begins TODAY, old sport! Get your tickets now to the party of the year: http://bit.ly/GatsbyTix
Pixels and Poetry
This was written for the forward of Kern and Burn, a Kickstarter funded book of interviews and essays from design entrepreneurs, including Aaron Draplin (Field Notes / DDC), Andy McMillan (Build Conf. / The Manual), Peter Buchanan-Smith (Best Made Co.), Ben Pieratt (Svpply / Lookwork / Varsity Bookmarking), and a load of other amazing folks.
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I graduated from design school with boundless optimism, jumping from the bubble of university life into a post-recession real world, where hope was a rare commodity. I believed that design could induce change — that it could shape the way we understand and interact with our world.
I moved to New York for a lead design position at a two-person shop and considered myself lucky to be employed, even though we didn’t have a single client. We filled our time with small-scale side projects that we hoped would land us paying jobs. The projects did lead to new clients, and the cash started rolling in. For the first time in my career, I felt like a legitimate designer—but I wasn’t challenged; I was comfortable.
More/Than/This (Blog) ™: Quote No. 062
Suppose as you went to preschool and school, teachers were telling you that there were two kinds of businesses, one to make money for yourself, another to solve the problems we see around ourselves. And you can use your creative power either way. So you would have grown up with the idea that there…
The History of Typography - Animated Short (by Ben Barrett-Forrest)
Trying to sleep in on Saturday is ZERO HELP!
Kids are bad for you sleep!!! Look how many times my sleep is disrupted because those rascals climb in bed with me!
