Hello you, happy new year and all that. You don’t need resolutions; you’re just fine as you are.
🚓 Who really killed Ford Timelord? Now that The KLF have reemerged, it’s gotten me thinking again about the fate of that cop car that featured on the Doctorin’ The Tardis artwork and elsewhere. Given the car was one of the few constants through the band’s career, whatever happened to it?
⛓ A Chain Just Cut Through A Capsized Cargo Ship Filled With Cars And The Process Is Fascinating is a monster headline But yes, this ship full of cars capsized and needed cutting up for disposal. What a mess, but amazing stuff. (Thanks RC!)
🛰 Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk: A Japanese company and Kyoto University have joined forces to develop what they hope will be the world’s first satellites made out of wood by 2023.
📚 The Art of Cover Design: The magazine cover is the place where creativity meets information, giving life to a visual commentary that speaks straight to the people. Vogue Italia talks to Coverjunkie, an online project that collects the most creative and original magazine covers.
🥤 Ranked: the environmental impact of five different soft drink containers: You might assume that plastic bottles are the least green option, but not necessarily so. This compares the environmental impact of five different types of drinks containers according to how each contributes to climate change and the pollution each produces during manufacture, use and disposal. See also: ☕️ Better disposable coffee cups and 🧱 How do you make an ecobrick.
🧐 This Is How To Change Someone’s Mind: an oldie but goodie. You can’t force people to listen to you, or sense, so here’s an examination of six aspects of research into the art of persuasion.