KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG

Official website of artist and designer Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung

With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Prof. Hans Rosling uses software from Gapminder debunks a few myths about the “developing” world. This global health visionary has discovered a powerful new way to communicate complex data about the world; his remarkable interactive graphs help deliver profound insights about global trends and will change forever the way you think about “us” and “them.” Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life.

Original Article via International Herald Tribune:

Starting sometime next summer, if all goes to plan, subatomic particles will begin shooting around a 27-kilometer, or 17-mile, underground ring stretching from the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, near Geneva, into France and back again.

Crashing together in the bowels of Atlas and similar contraptions spaced around the ring, the particles will produce tiny fireballs of primordial energy, recreating conditions that last prevailed when the universe was less than a trillionth of a second old.

Whatever forms of matter and whatever laws and forces held sway Back Then - relics not seen in this part of space since the universe cooled 14 billion years ago - will spring fleetingly to life, over and over again in all their possible variations, as if the universe were enacting its own version of the movie “Groundhog Day.” If all goes well, they will leave their footprints in mountains of hardware and computer memory.

New York Times article

CERN official site 

Original Article via LaughingSquid 

The Topsy-Turvy Bus (�Topsy�) is two school buses welded together, one upside down on top of the other, that is currently touring the country to “dramatically depict America’s upside down budget priorities�. The bus was created by mega art car artist Tom Kennedy in Oakland with a team of 10 artists, who have a background working on art car and Burning Man projects.

The idea for Topsy-Turvy came from Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s and president of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities along with artist Stefan Sagmeister. Tom and Haideen Anderson are currently driving the bus around the US, blogging about their adventures, with stops planned in New Hampshire and Iowa for the presidential primaries.