November 2008
13 posts
Let me google that for you →
Great to demonstrate to friends who make things harder then it really is.
Four philosophical questions to make your brain... →
“You might object that modern physics tells us that there is a certain amount of fundamental randomness in the universe. But is this reassuring? Notice that, in ordinary life, it is precisely when people act unpredictably that we sometimes question whether they have acted freely and responsibly. So freewill begins to look incompatible both with causal determination and with randomness. None...
LIFE photo archive →
“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.”
Video Game "O Faces" →
“British photographer Robbie Cooper used stills from the video taken by his RED camera to show that look of total concentration achieved by kids as they play some particularly absorbing video games.”
What Toyota knows that GM doesn’t →
“Do you know how many hourly jobs GM has laid off from 2006 to July 2008? Take a guess. How about 34,000? And now, they’re talking about another 5,500 layoffs.
OK, here’s a better question. How many hourly jobs has Toyota’s American production system laid off in the same time frame? Zero. ”
How an Amazonian tribe turned a missionary into an... →
“Tribe members asked the missionary whether he had seen or experienced any of the things he was telling them about. He had to admit that he hadn’t; that he was simply passing things onto them that were told to him by people who hadn’t seen or experienced them either.”
New Ice Age Predicted -- But Averted by Global... →
“Emissions of greenhouse gases are heating the atmosphere to such an extent that the next ice age, predicted to be the deepest in millions of years, may be postponed indefinitely.”
The Unfinished Swan →
“The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden. ” Check the videos.
Suddenly, It May Be Cool To Be American Again →
“She was a stranger, and she kissed me. Just for being an American.”
Obama - Election Night →
An excellent photo essay of Obama on election night.
Extreme Resolution Photos and Lasers Create... →
“But now, thanks to super-high resolution gigapixel images created by a team of 70 photographers using GigaPan robotic imagers and a laser-mapping airplane, park geologist Greg Stock now has unprecedented access to the geological features of one of the world’s most famous parks. And all from the comfort of his laptop.”
Google Flu Trends →
By tracking people’s search results, Google can track a flu two weeks before official surveillance can pick up on it.
Neuron Galaxy →
“One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light-years across. Together they show the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena.”