F’n Huge Font Friday (Helvetica in Space)
From kottke.org: Ben Terrett wrote a post about how many instances of the word “helvetica” set in unkerned 100 pt Helvetica it would take to go from the Earth to the Moon: The distance to the moon is 385,000,000,000 mm. The size of an unkerned piece of normal cut Helvetica at 100pt is 136.23 mm. […]
Resurrected protein’s clue to origins of life
By Simon Redfern from BBC News: The earliest life would have survived at more than 100 C New reconstructions of ancient proteins have provided clues to the habitat and origins of life on Earth. The resurrected protein is thought to have existed almost four billion years ago in single-celled organisms linked to the earliest ancestor […]
Perspective
By Whitevinyl: Here is today: Wednesday, 1 May, 2013 [Interactive art]
Distance to Mars in Pixels
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