Link About It: This Week’s Picks

An inflatable space station, child writers and anti-drone apparel in our look at the web this week

1. Warby Parker Annual Report While 2012 was a big year for many small startups, few grew with as much influence as one-for-one eyewear brand Warby Parker. To put the growth in transparent terms that everyone can understand they released their 2012 annual report as an interactive infographic this week, ripe with collection overviews, sales stats and employee fun facts. 2. Stairway to Nowhere Architecture …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: The Planetarium Projector Museum

A gaze inside the world's largest collection of planetarium projectors

There are many beautiful things to see on the drive into Big Bear Lake, CA but one of the more interesting and unknown is the Planetarium Projector Museum. In an unassuming building a stone’s throw from the lake, owner Owen Phairis has managed to compile the largest collection of planetarium projectors in the world. Phairis, who also does an electrical stage show as Nikola Tesla …

Olympus BioScapes 2012

An enchanting look at this year's winning scientific images captured with microscopes

Each year as part of the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, the world’s most impressive images and movies of life science subjects taken by microscope are put on show. The work of this year’s more than 2000 entrants delivered striking snapshots of human, plant and animal cells in brilliant light, judged on aesthetics, technique and scientific relevancy. For the first time in the competition’s nine-year …