Author: lcarlson

Three groansrs came in as comments to our Puns for Higher IQs page, which we’ll post here also to reach more readers who may (or may not?) be amused by them: What do you call a cow with only two legs? Lean beef What do you...

By Korean illustrator Kim Dong-Kyu’s “ for his Art x Smart” project. Reported in the article “Famous Paintings Updated with 21st-Century Gadgets” in Bored Panda (the only magazine for pandas). Kim injects 21st century gadgets —...

A fascinating video about this automaton, a contemporary of Mozart, click here to watch him write. A forerunner to today’s computers, it uses cam technology to control movements of hand and pen. Eyes follow the text being...

Dear DMC: here’s something I thought was interesting. It’s an animated wind map for the continental United States. One of my cool friends posted about it a while ago: http://hint.fm/wind/ Dmitry Dostoevsky...

Dear DMC: We are all know that wine experts have a wide vocabulary to describe the flavours and aromas of wine -“gooseberry”, “grass”, “elderberry” to name only a few.  But spare a thought for...