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The World by National Geographic

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:48:33 +0200

The World by National Geographic :

Beautiful iPad app from the National Geographic magazine atlas.

Visual Business Intelligence - Dyslexics Could Be Our Most Talented Data Visualizers

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:44:54 +0200

Visual Business Intelligence - Dyslexics Could Be Our Most Talented Data Visualizers

Evelyn Hofer: Arteries. A series of highways flowing through the...

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:14:23 +0200

Evelyn Hofer: Arteries. A series of highways flowing through the heart of Manhattan’s West Side, 1964. (par levisworkshops)

Things You Cannot Believe

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:18:34 +0200

Things You Cannot Believe:

Early in the 20th Century, the British philosopher G. E. Moore noticed that sentences of a certain form have a quite peculiar feature. Consider:

>I believe it is Tuesday, but today is Monday.

>Today is Monday, but I do not believe that.

>I believe that today is Tuesday, but it’s not true that today is Tuesday.

These statements, when considered as first-personal assessments, instantiate what’s been called Moore’s Paradox. Taking ‘p’ as a variable standing for any well-formed declarative sentence, we can say that Moore’s Paradox is generated by any statement of the following form,

>I believe that p, but not-p.

It's a bug's life

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:17:00 +0200

It's a bug's life:

A noteworthy popular intellectual trend in recent years might be called “How Everything Works, In Spite of Itself.” Roughly, the trajectory can be described by James Gleick’s Chaos, which appeared in 1988; M. Mitchell Waldrop’s Complexity in 1992; and Steven Johnson’s Emergence, debuting in 2001. On the even more popular side, one can glance at Gladwell’s Tipping Point and Surowiecki’s Wisdom of Crowds, although more serious readers ought to be referred to Stuart Kauffman’s The Origins of Order. What unites these works – or rather, the trend that these books represent – is a perennial desire to see our world defined in terms of simple rules that, once intuited, reveal themselves as pervasive and universal. What are the consequences of this point of view, as we attempt to better understand societies and urbanism?

P071611PS-0373 (par The White House) Vice President Joe Biden...

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:19:21 +0200

P071611PS-0373 (par The White House)

Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama look at an app on an iPhone in the Outer Oval Office, Saturday, July 16, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

(via Law and Order: Gotham City)

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:50:42 +0200

(via Law and Order: Gotham City)

HAL 9000 Advertisment (par justinvg)

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:48:42 +0200

HAL 9000 Advertisment (par justinvg)

(via Commercial Space Station to be Ready For Guests by 2016)

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:30:45 +0200

(via Commercial Space Station to be Ready For Guests by 2016)

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Otherworldly

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:09:34 +0200

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Otherworldly:

Small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities.

On Assignment (par renan ozturk)

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:07:22 +0200

On Assignment (par renan ozturk)

The Dutch Way - Bicycles and Fresh Bread - NYTimes.com

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:44:29 +0200

The Dutch Way - Bicycles and Fresh Bread - NYTimes.com:

Dutch drivers are taught that when you are about to get out of the car, you reach for the door handle with your right hand — bringing your arm across your body to the door. This forces a driver to swivel shoulders and head, so that before opening the door you can see if there is a bike coming from behind. Likewise, every Dutch child has to pass a bicycle safety exam at school. The coexistence of different modes of travel is hard-wired into the culture.

This in turn relates to lots of other things — such as bread. How? Cyclists can’t carry six bags of groceries; bulk buying is almost nonexistent. Instead of shopping for a week, people stop at the market daily. So the need for processed loaves that will last for days is gone. A result: good bread.

Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL F - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:44:30 +0200

Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL F - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic:

It makes me think that we need a new type of class in schools across the land immediately. Electronic literacy. Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we’re looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL+F thing.

GB.GBR.11.0028 (par balazsgardi) Aerial view seen from an...

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:26:13 +0200

GB.GBR.11.0028 (par balazsgardi) Aerial view seen from an Emirates flight above London, UK on August 13, 2011.

Shades (par spamajama)

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:24:38 +0200

Shades (par spamajama)

Tupolev, Tu-144, Charger (par San Diego Air & Space Museum...

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:22:58 +0200

Tupolev, Tu-144, Charger (par San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)

Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009* (pdf)

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:11:35 +0200

Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009* (pdf)

The Great Splintering - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:09:13 +0200

The Great Splintering - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review:

London’s become a city where many young people feel they’re finished before they start. Global economic imbalances (think, crudely, a country with a perpetual trade deficit) ultimately mean that there aren’t enough jobs to go around — and entrepreneurship is about as British as fish and chips are American. Being lucky enough to land a job that propels you into the ranks of the upwardly mobile — or at least, that keeps you from the ranks of downwardly mobile — depends, in my experience, not just on having gone to a handful of top schools (Oxford, Cambridge, LSE), but on having the right accent, postcode, and background. And while Americans might say that’s unique to Britain, I wonder if in most advanced economies, similar dynamics aren’t at work. Top employers, for example, don’t exactly recruit heavily from The University of Nowhere. Internships are heavily tilted towards the already-privileged. In fact, the problems of youth unemployment, underemployment, marginalization, and inequality are so pervasive globally, more and more economists are beginning to point to a lost generation.

(via iori tomita: new world transparent specimens)

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:55:55 +0200

(via iori tomita: new world transparent specimens)

News International papers targeted Gordon Brown

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:34:19 +0200

News International papers targeted Gordon Brown:

soupsoup:

Newspapers obtained details from the former prime minister’s bank account and legal file and his family’s medical records