May 2011
21 posts
Nanolaw with Daughter (Ftrain.com) →
Richard Panek: 'Let There Be Dark' →
Everything that we know and can sense may only account for a measly 4 percent of the universe. Everything else? It’s dark. Either dark matter or dark energy. It can’t be seen or even sensed by any…
“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers”
– Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story’ | Science | The Guardian
The Smart Set: Take Two Hookworms and Call Me in... →
Of murder and moving on →
In Defense of Hard - Adaptive Path →
The New Yorker Fiction - Thomas McGuane's "Cowboy" →
Sam Lipsyte reads Thomas McGuane’s “Cowboy,” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. “Cowboy” was published in the September 19, 2005, issue of The New Yorker and is…
“Majority of Internet Users Never Click on Ads -
Most say they’re afraid...”
– Ironic Times - Page Two, May 2, 2011
Full Interview: Adam Greenfield on Urban Computing... →
A few weeks ago on Spark, contributor Jonathan Gifford brought us inside the Cognitive Cities Conference in Berlin. One of the key people he met there was Adam Greenfield. Adam is founder and…
Utilize Available Screen Space (Jakob Nielsen's... →
“I suspect that once we have finished ransacking our planet’s resources, once we...”
– Junot Díaz: Apocalypse (Haiti, Japan, earthquake, tsunami)
Robert Lustig: Sugar and Health →
UCSF professor Robert Lustig became an Internet video sensation when he spoke out about the evils of sugar in a post that went viral on YouTube. He was also recently featured in a New York Times…
The Flip Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish... →
BIS Radio Show #571 - Pt 1 with: Trentemøller →
1. Kid Kongo And The Yellow Monkey Birds - La Lliarona
2. Suicide - Touch Me (Trentemøller Edit)
3. Chimes & Bells - The Mole (Trentemøller Remix)
4. Trickski - Pill Collins (Trentemøller Edit)
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