Naoki Matsuyama

"Invincible" by Pascal Jousselin—(for @bartbeaty, @nsousanis, et al., via @ouxpo):

@fiona_rodrigo A nice summary, with a links to the original study, here: smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… :)

A study in 2013 found that languages that have developed in high altitude locations are more likely to include sounds that are easier to produce in low air pressure environments, where the air is thinner.

IPSEDIXITISM is dogmatic language, or the notion that merely saying or asserting something—however untrue it may be—makes it fact.

小津安二郎監督作品のバストショットにメッセージウィンドウみたいのを付けたらゲームっぽくなるかなと思ったら、想像以上にアドベンチャーゲームだった。

日本近代建築の礎を作った天才は後藤慶二の他はいない。文学でいえば白樺派にあたる分離派協会に先立ち、後藤慶二は建築が何であるか誰よりも深い射程で理解した。彼は美学と構造の対立など偽の問題だと喝破した。建築は工学のみならず精神の基礎、感情、情念まで構造化するinfrastructureなのだ。

This dancing robot really appreciates a good U2 cover twitter.com/mashable/statu…

a few people got scared about the disaster alarm on their mobile, threw it, and got it stuck on to the ceiling in the EXACT same way

@heimstaedt hahaha! now on it

@nmatsuyama Good luck.

waiting for the tram

reminded me of these border control tv shows where human and non-human entities are portrayed equally as extreme dangers to national security and well-being

nice talk by mette nordahl svendsen about her concept of welfare state metabolism that drew provocative parallels between the ecologically undesirable (boars) and humanly undesirable (immigrants). memorable was this proposed fence to fend off wild boars dw.com/en/denmark-to-…

When a Byzantine princess of the Doge of Venice introduced the table fork to Europe in 11th century, she was accused of "rejecting nature" and "excessive delicacy"—from "The Secret History of the Future" podcast slate.com/articles/podca…

stun gun to a grape: "How the sounds in A Quiet Place were made" youtu.be/WnozP8OWeik

woah, again inducing dissonance/strengthening binaries as a successful political strategy deployed digitally

One of the most memorable pieces of information from my trip to the Kölnbrein Dam was that after 100 years since its construction (in the '70s) the existing structure will simply be abandoned to create a new dam a few meters inside or to leave the dam all together

A bit like all these concrete structures that were built in the second half of the 20th century and are crumbling at the same time due to the 50-60 year lifespan of concrete

Heard yesterday that the iconic palm trees in LA were all planted around the same time, and they’re now reaching the end of their lifecycle all together