Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Previously unseen images of Warhol and co, FLOTUS on educating girls, Star Wars marble statues and more

1. Lytro is Revolutionizing the Way We Capture Virtual Reality Lytro first entered the photography market with a camera that differentiated itself by capturing a scene’s entire light field, allowing users to adjust focus after the shot. Now, they’ve applied that same technology to virtual reality, resulting in the Lytro Immerge—a spherical camera that may revolutionize the way people capture 3D video. Previously, VR cameras …

The Science Behind “Goosebumps”

With Halloween upon us, there’s likely a hair-raising situation waiting to give you goosebumps, chicken skin or make your skin crawl. Those might seem like silly terms, but they all come from the fact that, when we’re scared (or cold), muscles tug at our hair follicles, causing our hair to raise and giving our skin a bumpy texture similar to that of a featherless chicken. …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Horror movie monsters for Halloween, cyborg performance art and more in this week's look around the web

1. Inside the Mind and Studio of Artist Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson is a busy man. The Danish-Icelandic artist is currently working on exhibitions in Stockholm and Vienna, a project that requires moving ice from Greenland to Paris, the design of a Copenhagen-based building, a cookbook and more. And whether you recognize his name or not, Eliasson and his team are shaping the way we …