MetaFilter posts tagged with london and science

Coming soon to an episode of Primeval

Artw — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:41:22 -0800

According to new fossil evidence 50 million years ago the skies above London were ruled by a relative of the goose, the size of a light aircraft, with toothy crocodile-likejaws. Or as The Sun puts it... DON'T RUCK WITH THIS DUCK!

Music history rendered on a London Tube Map

feelinglistless — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:44:09 -0800

Music history rendered on a London Tube Map They say: "Could we chart the branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map? Dorian Lynskey explains how a box of coloured crayons and lot of swearing helped." I say: Look also at the comments in the accompanying thread, which features trolling, snarkiness and repetition, beginning with "Why did you do this? What is the point? Wouldn't you have been better off doing something else? Sometimes you media people really worry me." The Guardian are introducing commenter registration on their new blog.

Art and science collide

edh — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:22:29 -0800

Art meets science - a fascinating site linking art, maths, physics, astronomy and.... the London Underground!

body world exhibition

monkeyJuice — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:12:54 -0800

Previously discussed here, the Body World exhibition in, London, Brick Lane is hosting what is to be the last publicly performed autopsy before they are banned. I've seen the exhibition and felt that it was done very well, but I'm not sure ill be attending the autopsy with as much haste. Macabre voyeurism or lay man intrigue? Its being rumored that is may also be televised on channel 4