Fridaygram: cultural works, meteorite found, homeward trek
By +Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog
Editor
The
Google Cultural
Institute just keeps expanding, making more treasures available to anyone with a Web
browser.
This
time they’ve added more than 5000 new works mainly from the worlds of clothing,
fashion and design.
You can see royal jewels from
France
and
Italy,
amazing
body
art and
dress
from African ceremonies, and even a
wax
portrait featuring Louis XIV. There’s more than clothing: visit
museums
in China and view
children’s
art from Norway. The Cultural Institute lets you get a world cultural tour and still
have lunch at home.
In another shared online experience, many of us watched incredible videos of a
meteorite crossing Russia
last February. Now a very physical artifact of this event has been found. Divers in central
Russia pulled a
570 kg
piece of meteorite from Lake Chebarkul. According to Professor Sergey Zamozdra of
Chelyabinsk State University, the piece is “most probably one of the top 10 biggest meteorite
fragments ever found."
Finally, take a few minutes and check out
this
true story of humanity and technology. The tale starts with a lost boy on a train
and takes some remarkable turns before reaching its conclusion.
Streaking across your browser like a meteorite every week, it’s Fridaygram!
We bring you Google stuff, science things, and other fun you might have missed. Thanks to
+Louis Gray for this week's meteorite tip.
