Three Nested Klein Bottles
This is one of a series of glass Klein bottles made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, United Kingdom for the Science Museum, London. It consists of three Klein bottles, one inside another. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions. In the series Alan Bennett made Klein bottles analogous to Mobius strips with odd numbers of twists greater than one.
I disagree that it “cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions” as it obviously has been. Perhaps they meant defined…
[Image and description from here, via somewhere else.]
[UPDATE: Here’s a visual summary of a single Klein Bottle, showing its relationship with a Mobius Strip (thanks to Strider).]
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Recorded in Liverpool, or possibly Hamburg, ca. 1960.
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Down to the tenth of a second is close enough for me.
Sumo Badminton kinda creeps me out…
This kinda creeps me out, too…
Hot Links Vacation
Dan found “Vacation ’58,” the short story for the John Hughes’ movie “Vacation.”
Crappy Taxidermy, and lots of it here.
Slime mold remembers patterns of events. Short article here.
In 2005, this actor played 165 parts in a popular movie. [Guess who before you click here.]
Eternal Moonwalk is clever.
Because we all love Paleogene ungulates.
Nice collection of videos by Quirkology here.
Google “handmade aboriginal novelty fake turd” and you get 6,390 results.
Some trees just piss each other off.
1:30 of pure greatness.
More Great Gift Ideas (and some are Assorted!)
Wow. I’ve been looking for a dozen assorted Inflatable Snake Swords for years, if only to have a crazy sword fight. If you swing one ISS and miss, the snakehead homes in on and bites your enemy right in the crackerbockles before deflating. Ouch. Crazy.
On the other hand, these Light-Up Expando Swords come with a built-in choking hazard. Swing one at your enemy and it breaks up into little weaponettes that fly screaming right down his/her/its throat. These weapons of mass illumination go for $14.99/dozen, so maybe they’re better for self defense after all, but they’re definitely not assorted.
Foam Swords + Duct Tape are an entirely different class of weaponry, to be covered in a future post. Meanwhile, don’t mess with ANYONE who displays little cows with crescent moons on his/her foam sword sheath. These people are dangerous, and THEY play for keeps.
Saturday Matinee – The Pencil, The Multiverse, & The Echos of Nyro
School is back in session, so check these out.
The Pencil. The late Milton Friedman is one of my favorites.
2005: Dr. Michio Kaku describes the purpose of LISA, scheduled for launch in 2010(?). Woof. This guy’s got some amazing ideas, despite his Berkely ties.
The intelligent Homerbird describes the daily rotation of the earth in easy to understand terms.
[Found at the Presurfer.]
Speaking of Dimensions, I caught myself before I posted a 5th Dimension vid, and decided to post Laura Nyro instead since she wrote several of their hits. Because there are so few decent Laura Nyro videos on the Utoobage, here are three of her songs performed by others, including the 5thD.
Blood Sweat & Tears‘ version of “When I Die” from 1970, live in Japan. (Hope someone can take this semi demagnetized video tape and balance out the sound.)
Three Dog Night‘s “Eli’s Comin’.”
I secretly liked Nyro’s version of this song, too.
The Royalettes‘ “Gonna Take A Miracle.” This was not a Nyro song, although she covered the 1965 hit in 1971.
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