Thank you to scientistic for drawing Mel Schwartz. Mel was a huge inspiration of mine. In 1996 I took his seminar on contemporary physics as a bright-eyed first year in college. The seminar, more aptly called morning-tea-with-Mel-and-his-nobel-laureate-friends, was my first exposure to scientists of this caliber.

Put mildly, I was out of my league. I often had no idea what was being discussed, but I to this day remember the tone and attitude of the discussion: Mel made everyone feel welcome. To share in the discussion of ideas. To be passionate about physics. To welcome thoughtful dialogue between disciplines.

No matter how much you are on the top of your game, life gets richer when you maintain an open view and an incessant curiosity. I thought I would learn about physics, but learned a deeply valuable lesson for life. And this first year from 1996, is forever grateful for that. 

scientistic:

Melvin Schwartz (1932-2006)

A Jewish American physicist that won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics alonside Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of leptons (elementary particles of matter such as electrons).

A small thanks for FiftyThree’s shout out.

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That’s Andrew and me live-sketching the PSFK conference in New York. Check this great summary from Core 77.

(via Need to Know: PSFK Conference NYC Recap - Core77)

"I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces “intelligence."

socialpirate asked:

Downloaded paper last weekend and got all the tools as well. probably the best app for note taking + sketching + drawing + coloring. It should really be an iPad must have. Where can I follow future developments or possibly request new features in future upgrades?

Thank you! Thank you! 

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Lotus Plaza just released their latest album “Spooky action at a distance”. It’s a solo project from Lockett Pundt from Deerhunter. We used their track “Come Back” in our Paper video. Read the rave review on Pitchfork.

This is going to be one of the greatest tumblrs. Science + Art made tasty.  

madewithpaper:

Scientistic is a beautiful new tumblr that brings art + science together. Famous scientists and their breakthroughs are lovingly drawn, and backed with solid descriptions of their scientific contributions. May we request a rendition of Melvin Schwartz? He is personal hero of mine and influenced my way of thinking about science and entrepreneurship.  

scientistic:

Victor Grignard (1871-1935)

Most well known for his work developing Grignard reagents for use in the addition of R groups to ketones, forming alkoxides. As with Gilman reagents, Grignard reagents are an important tool for nucleophilic addition for developing larger molecules from smaller compounds.

Victor Grignard also has one of the best mustaches of any scientist. Ever.

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From kelseydo. So very chic. Just a few lines, some color accents. This sketch lives on it’s simplicity. 

jpmcmullan started a log of his user interface sketches in progress. Great use!

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Saw this during Jason Silva’s talk, had to capture it. See the full set of sketches at psfkonpaper.fiftythree.com. 

PSFK had Andrew and me live sketching their conference. Take a look at what we did.

psfkonpaper:

Big thanks to the team at PSFK for a marvelous conference. It was human and inspiring. TED for the people, and it that, is own very unique thing. Thanks from your friends at FiftyThree.

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Hamburger rocks a Hamburger. 

thisistheverge:

Just a Google+ Verge Hangout.

Hat’s of Jared. This is stunning.

jaredsinclair:

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Oh man. Tumblr is complete. Its GIFs+Paper!!!

strle:

codingjester:

Experimenting with the new Paper app…. I think I can do better….

<3 u bohn junting

Introducing Paper by FiftyThree 

We just launched our first product and I could not be more pleased with the result. 

Paper is where ideas begin. It’s the easiest and most beautiful way to create on iPad. Capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them across the web. Download “Paper by FiftyThree” free from the App Store. Then buy tools in the in-App store.

What’s special for everyone on Tumblr, is that you can share pages directly from Paper as a post. We noticed that people use Tumblr just like a digital notebook, and now you have a way to create pages. It’s simple and beautiful. Give it a try.

Create on. 

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Continuing my sequence on how to diagram better. Today, a simple lesson on color.

• For contrasting ideas, vary hue.Maximum contrast is at 180 degree hue shifts.
• For sequences or related ideas, vary the shade. Go like 10% darker at each step.
• In general, don’t use many colors, just enough to show differences or related information.

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