Insight Lights

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Belarus design firm Solovyodesign recently produced a very thoughtful lightbulb. Shaping the twisted contours of a normal compact fluorescent bulb into the shape of a human brain, the industrious design couple offer a beautiful rethinking of the CF bulb while making a humorous play on the classic “good idea” lightbulb bit from Saturday morning cartoons.

Doug Aitken’s Patterns & Repetitions: James Murphy

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

In a recent installment of artist Doug Aitken’s video series (bringing conversations on “nothing less than the future of art itself” to the NYT), LCD Soundsystem James Murphy keeps it down-to-earth, opening up about the mundane sounds like refrigerator hums and snowbanks that inspire his music.

The Power of Babble

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Deb Roy of MIT, has been videotaping the last three years of his son’s life. In an effort to better understand how humans learn language and how to improve the ways we can teach it to machines, Roy has logged over 120,000 hours of footage from cameras placed all over his home. Wired talked to Roy about how the project has helped learning about speech …