Links: Late May 2013

Interesting

• Video interview with Ed Yong on blogging and journalism.
• Mathematics of juggling.
• Calling a plasma a liquid is not cool, but that aside, this particle physics article is intriguing.
• The definite word on how caterpillars turn into butterflies.
• Interesting blog post about Leibniz, featuring handwriting samples and much more.

Delightful

• This abstract animation is a wonderful blend of shape and sound.
• A font made of cats. Please scroll down to comment #146, which contains a limerick I wrote.
• Lovely, relaxing timelapse video of a journey on board an Antarctic ice breaker.
• Winners and honourable mentions in the Earth & Sky Photography Contest. (Warning: autoplay)
• Jay Silver’s TED Talk, on the possibilities of joining things in unconventional ways.

Awareness

• The emptiness of depression, conveyed in cartoon form.

Personal

• Earlier this month, Internet friend Mark Gallagher and I arranged to simultaneously watch the same classic Doctor Who stories from different cities. The stories were among my favourites, but new to Mark. I recorded his reactions in a Storify.
• My city finally gets some recognition.