http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/explore-americas-history-with-these-rich-interactive-maps

40 Beautiful Ice Sculptures from Ice Festivals around the world

http://hyperallergic.com/266060/in-san-francisco-closing-the-gap-between-art-and-tech/

http://www.theartistproject.com/show-features/installations/

http://www.spiritinthemachine.com/#!Power-of-the-Print/

http://theunboundedspirit.com/10-of-the-most-surprising-findings-from-psychological-studies/

(Video) Bowie Collaborations

(Bronze Foundry) http://www.makersculpture.ca/

http://news.nationalpost.com/health/power-law-equation-will-help-us-decode-the-secrets-of-how-and-why-cancer-spreads

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mott-the-hoople-songs/

"... it's now your turn, in time and space. And there are simply no words that can express just how uniquely special this privilege is. Nor how fleeting." - The Universe
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check." - M.C.Escher
"Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and love people. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you, and stay." - platitude
"I AM CONVINCED ART HAS MUCH TO DO WITH MADNESS." - JEAN DUBUFFET
"What you allow, is what will continue." - ?

http://torontodreamsproject.blogspot.ca/2015/01/a-torontonian-historical-map-of-london.html

http://lineshapespace.com/generative-design/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/science-art-exhibits-in-2016-the-early-edition/?wt.mc=SA_Facebook-Share

http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images/

http://99u.com/articles/52533/artists-evolve-the-dangers-of-creatively-typecasting-yourself

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/facebook-echo-chambers-help-spread-and-reinforce-misinformation

http://revolution-news.com/croatian-slovenian-activists-meet-to-cut-border-fence/

http://artfcity.com/author/paddy-johnson/

http://diffuser.fm/cover-songs-better-than-the-originals/?ucr

http://elitedaily.com/elite/psychology-behind-messy-rooms-messy-room-may-necessarily-bad-thing/708046/

"When mortals wander far from home, beauty’s web may catch them as they roam." - Goethe
"Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?" - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing." - Mark Twain
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life." - Jean-Michel Basquiat
"America was never the 'Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free'. From the get-go it was the 'Home of the Slave and the Land of the Tree'." - Danny Glover

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/nasa-releases-most-detailed-map-ocean-yet

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/shape-dynamics/

http://hyperallergic.com/263538/best-of-2015-our-top-10-works-of-internet-art/

http://www.digicult.it/slider/agitprop-politically-engaged-art/

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-contemporary-art-s-most-influential-cities

The Bridge: Experiments in Science and Art (a science-art residency program):  http://www.sciartcenter.org/the-bridge.html

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/books/new-york-public-library-invites-a-deep-digital-dive

https://www.greatbooks.org/outreach/great-books-chicago/

http://dailyvibes.org/boost-dopamine

http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php

"Wanting something means you believe you don't have it. Which you don't want to believe or you may never get it. (Instead, you can recognize that which you don't yet have by giving thanks, in advance, for receiving it)." - The Universe
"Art is a lawless domain, where rules are best ignored." - R.B. Wild
"Drawing, for me, is a way of looking at things. It’s like an excuse to look at something that I might otherwise be afraid of." - Wendy MacNaughton, NYT best-selling illustrator
"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old." - Mark Twain
"'I can't wait until I'm dead and famous' ...said no artist ever." - James Fowler

http://vancouverwelcomemap.ca/

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/22/1436766/-How-Canada-s-Liberals-obliterated-the-Conservatives-this-week-with-tons-of-awesome-maps

https://www.inverse.com/article/9369-theoretical-physics-the-scientific-method-and-the-damage-done

http://hyperallergic.com/100562/the-geometric-perfection-of-snowflakes/

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-auction-world-is-moving-online-is-it-paying-off

http://factually.gizmodo.com/76-viral-images-from-2015-that-were-totally-fake-1747317711

http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/articles/must-see-toronto-art-exhibitions-winter-2016/

Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Travelling Artist Residency

Art Show Tips

http://www.sewingjunction.ca/#!slideshow/c1429

"It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the way of the gods must be prepared." - Oscar Wilde
"... one of the most-powerful myth-makers and myth-exposers of our time … a controversial, constructive, endlessly energetic metaphor-maker who sees things differently from the rest of us, and thereby makes us see ourselves afresh..." - Alvin Toffler (describing architect, theorist, designer, and futurist Buckminster Fuller)
"Don't you see, you couldn't get it if you already had it. And it's the 'getting of it' that you really want, in an adventure that can only begin with wanting what you do not yet have." - TU
"However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. - Kubrick
"...the release of dopamine … increases motivation to explore and facilitates cognitive and behavioral processes useful in exploration." - Colin DeYoung, University of Minnesota

http://waag.org/en/blog/roads-rome

Information visualizer: Ben Shneiderman, Distinguished University Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maryland

Digital Painting: http://media.rhizome.org/brushes/index.html

http://www.webgranth.com/best-free-online-word-cloud-generator-and-tag-cloud-generator

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/category/art-artists/

http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/terry-gilliams-lost-animations-from-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-are-now-online.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-cultivate-your-creativity-book-excerpt/

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/12/14/459651340/sometimes-confusion-is-a-good-thing

(Definition) "placebo effect of contemporary art" : ‘well this is an object of contemporary art and so I should feel something, so I’m going to put a feeling on it, ah and now I feel good about myself’  Via

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/iceland-storm-melt-north-pole-climate-change/422166/

"Like a welcome summer rain, humour may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." - Langston Hughes
"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be." - Neale Donald Walsch
"Feelings are based upon perceptions, which are based upon beliefs, which at all times are chosen." - TU
"Stop being who you were, and change into who you are." - Paulo Coelho
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it, and, when the time comes to let it go, let it go." - Mary Oliver

http://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/art/mathematical-art/?li=nav

http://www.historyoftechnology.org/Resources/index.html

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/best-of-2015-year-in-projection-mapping

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/22/genius-at-play-siobhan-roberts/

http://www.realclearscience.com/lists/junk_science_of_2015/foia_harass_scientists.html

ArtSci Residency http://featart.eu/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own-opposites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq

https://aeon.co/conversations/is-the-revolutionary-violence-of-islamic-extremism-any-different-from-other-revolutions-in-history

(Definition) 'Anthropocene period' ; relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been been the dominant influence on climate and the environment

"Did you know that if you choose to be joyful enough, it's physically impossible to get angry, fret, stew, or worry? And that if you choose it often enough, it's physically impossible to be broke, sick, lonely, or confused?" - The Universe
"In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility." - Victoria Moran
"You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
"The gods too, are fond of a joke." - Aristotle
"When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts, the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, 
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." - Walt Whitman

NSF confirms value of combining Art and Science in education

Year in Search: https://www.google.com/trends/story/2015_US

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830513-200-painting-by-numbers-with-the-design-book-mathematics-and-art/

(Buckminster Fuller’s) Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists

http://theunboundedspirit.com/50-of-the-most-beautiful-sentences-in-literature/

Collage-ish :https://luis-lamboy.squarespace.com/work

Graffiti, Art, Style & Culture forum

http://www.artnews.com/2015/12/21/2015s-best-conceptual-art-work-is-a-tv-show-on-comedy-central/

http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/audio/tips-and-solutions/how-record-cassette-tapes-computer

"kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness." - Sanaya Ro
"The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound." - David Mutti Clark
"Don't wait for those feelings of excitement, confidence, and clarity, before you take action. Take action first, without them, and they will follow." - The Universe
"Taking passages word for word was not stealing so long as the motives were to recycle them for artistic purposes..." - Michel Houellebecq
"You can never lose a homing pigeon - if your homing pigeon doesn't come back, what you've lost is a pigeon." - ?