It was a busy week this week in the Twitterverse, with lots of great videos, images and things to learn on the web. Here are a smattering of my favorites:

• Emma Reddington decided to show off her air plants in a very interesting way in her home. I love the idea that they can be placed randomly in the hose, and that branch setting is sweet. Via @marionhousebook.
• I have always been a huge Norman Juster fan (think Phantom Tollbooth) and want to give a hat tip to @brainpicker for pointing me to his story The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics as created by Chuck Jones. Based off of the old story Flatland, also a favorite, this is a sweet little tale.
• @NOTCOT presented an easy-open keyring that may keep me from breaking my nails to take keys off and on.
• I never knew there were rules of etiquette for chopsticks! Although I grew up learning all the standard Western table manners, so of course it makes sense. The Slurp gives us 10, via @tastologieFEED
• Ben Silbermann of Pinterest gives a great talk at Alt Summit, via @sfgirlbybay - I hope I can go to the event next year, the Twitter updates sounded intriguing.
• I learned that I have been tying my shoes the wrong way for 40 years - are you guilty as well? Terry Moore gives a very short TED talk on how to do it right, via @thenextweb

Happy 70th birthday, Stephen Hawking! Celebrate with The Theory of Everything, fantastic film free to watch online j.mp/erNDE7

— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) January 8, 2012

 

  

This video about the Fibonacci series and its relation to natural growth and proportion is both informative and enjoyable. I use these same proportions in my design work, and find them to always be pleasing to the eye.

via brainpickings