Braudel's The Mediterranean was made over twenty years, and Braudel's excess is statistical, but he also innovates narratives, his maps are loaded with motion data, sometimes forcing the audience to shift orientation to realize scope and origin. Below, the reader rotates to see.

"Single-molecule diffractive imaging with an X-ray free-electron laser. Individual biological molecules will be made to fall through the X-ray beam, one at a time, and their structural information recorded in the form of a diffraction pattern. The pulse will ultimately destroy each molecule, but not before the pulse has diffracted from the undamaged structure. The patterns are combined to form an atomic-resolution image of the molecule." - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Bioshock's Rapture locale, soon Columbia.

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From Joe Queenan's Is 2010 the Worst Movie Year Ever?

"In a millennium that has thus far produced precious few motion pictures in the same class as "The Godfather," "Jurassic Park," "Casablanca," "Gone with the Wind," "My Fair Lady" and "The Matrix," there is a knee-jerk tendency to throw up one's hands and moan that the current year is the worst in the history of motion pictures. But 2010 very possibly is the worst year in the history of motion pictures. Where once there was "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," there is now "Robin Hood," prince of duds. Where once we could look forward to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Last of the Mohicans," we can now look forward to "Dinner for Schmucks" and "The Last Airbender." This time two years ago we were treated to the ingenious, subversive "Iron Man"; this year we have the insipid, uninspired "Iron Man 2." What does it say about the current season that the third installation of "Toy Story" is better than the first installation of anything else? Or that people are actually looking forward to a sequel to the 1982 flop "Tron"? Does this mean that a sequel to "The Rocketeer" will soon be on the way? Quick, Leonardo: Penetrate somebody's subconscious. Fast.

An illustration and caption from A Model of Visual Motion Processing in Area MT of Primates, Sejnowski and Nowlan's remarkable paper describing basic neural organization across areas of the brain. From Gazzaniga's masterful, first The Cognitive Neurosciences