I'm really liking the Google home page illustration from yesterday. The colors, typography and texturing are all really nice looking. Not only is the image easy to watch in a trance-like state, it clicked through to awesome information as usual. It was Inge Lehmann's 127th birthday - a lady who changed the way the world thinks, and the way we think we stand upon it.
An excerpt from wiki:
Inge Lehmann ForMemRS (May 13, 1888 – February 21, 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist. In 1936, she discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core. Before that, scientists believed Earth's core to be a single molten sphere. However, seismologists had been unable to explain careful measurements of seismic waves from earthquakes, which were inconsistent with the Earth having a single molten core. Lehmann analysed the seismic wave measurements, and she concluded that Earth must have a solid inner inside a molten outer core to produce seismic waves that matched the measurements. Other seismologists tested and and then accepted Lehmann's explanation.
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