Scents

I made an Undertaking (subway) map for Ankh-Morpork, set about 50 years in the future (from canon “now”). I took some liberties with names of places, given the time gap. For instance, Dolly Sisters has become Dollisters, the Whore Pits has become Harpits. Locations are based on the canonical Ankh-Morpork map. Note that the logo is actually octarine – your monitor may not calibrated to display that color properly.

edit: as people have asked, here’s a very rough sketch I used when laying out the lines…

Our public transit system runs on a Poisson process; no matter how long you have been waiting for the train, the probability of a train coming in the next minute remains the same.

I made a Google Street view timelapse movie of Philadelphia’s Walnut Street.

the tiniest ant is 2mm long, about 850 times less than the average
human’s height. the average virus is 20,000 times smaller than that
ant.

Daniel M. Drucker collaborated on Distinguishing conjoint and independent neural tuning for stimulus features with fMRI adaptation with Geoffrey K. Aguirre

Geoffrey K. Aguirre collaborated on Neural activity within area V1 reflects unconscious visual performance in a case of Blindsight with David H. Brainard

David H. Brainard played the part of Samuel Allison in Fat Man and Little Boywith John Cusack

John Cusack was in Adaptation with Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep was in The River Wild with Kevin Bacon

1. think of something banal that new-world-order nuts might believe is part of the conspiracy
2. use google to find evidence that someone DOES believe this.

my first win: the offset-printing calibration marks on cereal boxes

ANOTHER PLANE CRASHES. ARE AIRPLANES SAFE?

in this corner, from the mystery fairy land of Science, we have ACTUAL
STATISTICS

and in this corner, we have RECENCY EFFECTS and AVAILABILITY HEURISTICS
ROUND ONE…. FIGHT!

Everything you need to know about the Aztecs can be summed up in the fact that one of their months is called Tlacaxipehualiztli, which means MAN FLAYING.