LiquiGlide

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Get straight to eating at your local burger joint—Dave Smith and the Varanasi Research group of MIT have created LiquiGlide, a “structured liquid” that allows for easy dispense of condiments in glass and squeeze bottles. Before adding food product, the bottles are sprayed with the innovative product which comes from an anti-icing coating used to prevent clogs in oil and gas lines.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

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1. John Baldessari Narrated by Tom Waits, this cleverly edited video breaks down John Baldessari’s life in a mere six minutes for a brief history lesson on the artist dubbed a “surrealist for the digital age”. With over 200 solo shows and a handful of significant awards comprising his portofolio, the LACMA-commissioned video is a short rundown of how Baldessari became the 6’7 badass who …

The Streets of NYC

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The story of New York is told through 870,000 photographs taken from the mid-1800s to the present in a digital photo archive by the New York City Municipality. Glamorous stills are mixed with gritty candids in the vast database, which has been digitized for public use.