Radiolab

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diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

Wat Rong Khun is a contemporary unconventional Buddhist and Hindu temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand.

Creepy and beautiful at the same time…

Extraordinary.

Walter R. Tschinkel pours molten aluminum into ant colonies

(ht Radiolab listener Astima Chitre)

This is the Children Activity and Learning Centre by 24H Architecture, and DAMN it is cool. Looks like a tree house designed by Lewis Carroll with the help of a graphing calculator. More here.

The floating farmhouse, from Atlas Obscura’s 7 Buildings That Defy the Laws of Physics.

poptech:

architizer:

For the last 500 years, the locals of Nongriat in Meghalaya, India have grown several hundred bridges across the region’s numerous water channels. Some of the bridges extend over 100 feet in length and are strong enough to support more than 50 people at a time.

Just wonderful.

curiositycounts:

Beautiful pen-and-ink drawings of wind by artist Peter Jellitsch based on algorithms that predict how air will move through highrise buildings (via)

In case you can’t tell from this image, those little lines are arrows.