3D images from still pictures

Summer: that was all you get. Sorry! Now, today's non-essential links.

SCIENCE!If you're wondering whether Disney has been working on Scene Reconstruction from High Spatio Angular Resolution Light Fields - well, do you really have to ask?

This is pretty cool; the first example shows you they can get 3D out of a static photo, which brings up the possibility to re-rendering the bygone world through old photos.

It's from Disney Labs. I had no idea they had their own Skunk Works / JPL.

WHOA This is horrifying: the mountain shrugs, and down comes the forest.

TRICK QUESTION If someone asked you how Americans got to work, you might scratch your head, kick the dirt, twist your shirt in your hands, and say in a small pained voice "gee, I don't know. Cars maybe?" Correct! NPR explains, and notes that the number of people who work at home has actually declined, which seems counterintuitive.

Related: Are strollers making our kids fat? No. Do they train our kids to be passive and uninquisitive, as this article suggests? Probably not. But let's read the article anyway, and find something new to worry about, or feel superior to others about.

Is it better if kids walk, instead of being pushed everywhere for the first five years of life? Probably. Will I stop putting things in the form of a question to avoid making any assertions of my own? Eventually. Meanwhile, there's this:

Really? The results are trickling in? Let's go to the middle of the article:

Okay. On the other hand, there's significant evidence that pushing a stroller causes you to lose your mind in public:

It's the modulation on CARE that makes it so oddly compelling. This vine is being dissected down to the molecular level at Gizmodo.

ART Not that you're planning on doing this anytime soon, but here's the Smithsonian on "How to Destroy Priceless Works of Art." Wouldn't be complete without some head-scratching relativism, though. When discussing the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the article notes:

The article also describes the vandalism of the Pieta in St. Peter's, for some reason, which was hammered by a fellow named Lazlo Toth. Years later this would prompt Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko to pose a question.