GOT opening sequence, free fallin', etc.

The only television show i watch with any frequency is Game Of Thrones, mostly because Holly and Tyler know how much i love(d) the books, and so have me, Jack and Leslie over to watch it every week. The opening sequence is stunning; it features a mechanized map of Westeros, each city-to-be-featured in that particular episode sort of unfurling in order of appearance. Of course, i was curious as to how the map is done. A company called Elastic designed the sequence (for which it won a very-deserved Emmy); it's based roughly on clockwork, semi-inspired by Leonardo Davinci's work. A good article regarding this can be found here; notably: " When a town is lost or won, Wall’s team updates the map with the appropriate markings. If the battle razed the city, Wall’s team will construct a totally new model to depict the destruction. Attentive viewers will find locations intact in Season 1’s credits completely destroyed by Season 3’s."

Today, Tom Petty's Free Fallin' was playing over the radio in lab, and my labbie Ryan turned and paraphrased it at me, 'He's free.... free fallin' '. And i speculated that it's a pretty long song; how far must the fall be? This immediately required googling to determine the length of time Felix Baumgartner was in the air during his 19 mile sub-orbit freefall (4 minutes, 19 sec) versus the length of the song (4 minutes, 4 seconds). We were slightly amazed that the times were so close.

Tripped over this during lunch today; re-captioned safety tips/signs.

LZ linked these crazy posts regarding moths (yeah, the insects) driving little cars and mechanical animals. WHOA. She also linked this paper where they used cell acoustics to look at structures. The names and scopes of scientific journals is something i always find striking.

Finally,
"And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."