Hey, take a minute, close your eyes and imagine an apple. Well, it turns out that not everyone can visualize an apple in their internal mind. What does that mean? Ten Cold Hot Dogs made a post about that topic and what the link says about how individualistic we all are is fascinating!
Image by Pietro Zanarini, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/zipckr/)
Anna's Hummingbird is one of the top species on BirdWeather
"BirdWeather is a visualization platform that... is continuously listening to over 200 active audio stations around the world and is actively plotting their results in a user-friendly map interface..." jessamyn posted about the birbs, and it is super cool.
via BBC.com
Fizz posted Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before, the first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, with visualizations pieced together from 700,000 images collected by remote controlled submersibles. (Title via pthomas745 in the comments!)
Dorothea Lange self portrait
Dorothea Lange digital archive 📷 New Jersey: Images of the Garden State 📷 Streetview of 1940s NYC 📷 Inspiring Incarcerated Individuals to Visualize Their Dreams in Photos 📷 Ingrid Pollard: pastoral interlude
Blank by ishaip (cc by-sa)
What do you see in your mind's eye? Come tell us, in the thread on people who have no mental images.
Time Flies by h.koppdelaney (cc by-nd)
On MeFi, midmarch snowman clocks some multi-link first-post goodness with Finally a horology post for people who like shiny things, while in the Green, mzurer asks, In 1527 how did English households tell time?
Also linked recently on the Blue:
Built For Eternity, on structures designed to potentially outlast human civilization
400 Years, a browser game that uses time as a gameplay mechanic
Why Time Flies, a visualization of why time seems to pass more quickly as one gets older
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