Category Archives: Culture

Visualization of moral entropy in Breaking Bad

Posted on March 21, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Hat tip: Shreya Durvasula (via The Hooded Utilitarian)

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Lego art (Dome of the Rock edition)

Posted on March 17, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

From Wikipedia (footnotes omitted): “The Dome of the Rock — Arabic: قبة الصخرة‎ (transliteration: Qubbat Al-Sakhrah), Hebrew: כיפת הסלע‎ (transliteration: Kipat Hasela) — is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem … [It] is now one of … Continue reading →

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Coffee cup art

Posted on March 13, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via Gear Patrol, check out this beautiful collection of NYC disposable coffee cups; hat tip: kotkke.

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“Spotlight”

Posted on March 6, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Here is our review: Although this film is ostensibly about a team of journalists at the Boston Globe who exposed corruption at the highest levels of Boston’s Catholic Church, it’s also about the law and about lawyers. Interestingly, lawyers are … Continue reading →

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Taxonomy of colors

Posted on March 4, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via kottke, we discovered this Color Thesaurus created by designer and author Ingrid Sundberg. Ms Sundberg’s original and beautiful “color thesaurus” provides a taxonomy or breakdown of all the shades of color within each major primary color group, including white, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue (pictured … Continue reading →

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Espresso art

Posted on March 2, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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Open borders

Posted on February 25, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via Valerio Vincenzo, check out these amazing and beautiful pictures of open borders in the Schengen area, a geographical zone consisting of a total of 26 European countries that have abolished their passport and border controls at their common borders. … Continue reading →

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“Why don’t better movies cost more?”

Posted on February 24, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

This intriguing question was recently posed by economist Ashok Rao via Marginal Revolution. Personally, we have no idea, except perhaps “tradition”? So as a service to our friends and loyal readers, we are re-posting the following three blog posts on this puzzle: Why … Continue reading →