January 2011
29 posts
“You can tell when rhetoric is empty — and therefore should be cut — because it...”
– How CEOs Can Improve Speeches - Nick Morgan - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
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I never believe in sort of Buck Rogers fantasies of the future of cities. They never happen and it’s just as well, because we’d be extremely unhappy if they did… Cities are a sort of intricate layering of the work of many generations, one on top of another. It’s subtle transformation and inflection of cities rather than whole scale transformation that’s really important. …The...
WatchI am not a fan of the “Rare Earth Hypothesis” but Peter Ward makes a compelling case.
The Oddest Little Planet in the Galaxy? | Peter Ward | Big Think
Outlaw Artist: The Curious Case of Mark Augustus... →
Gapper rightfully calls Landis’ forgery frolic “the longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”
"Can You Find the Darkness?"
Greg’s Daughter is going to grow up goth
clayman:
This is a screen from a new iPad game my three-year-old daughter has. You’re supposed to find the animals in the picture.
I looked at it and said, “can you find the monkey?” and pointed to the monkey in the train.
She looked and said, “can you find the darkness?” and pointed to the inside of the cave.
She wins.
WatchMy favorite scientist after Carl Sagan (thus my favorite living scientist)
Can We Download Our Brains? | Dr. Kaku’s Universe | Big Think
WatchThis would never work in Jersey. Everyone would be happily cruising on autopilot when some dude from Belleville would try to pass on the right from the parkway entrance.
Road train technology brings autopilot into your car
The first mammoth cloning experiment is officially... →
What’s exciting about this is that we may be getting a second chance to selectively restore uniquely-well adapted animals to extreme climates that had been eliminated due to human expansion. In The Worst Hard Time it talked about how hard it was to raise cattle in Oklahoma because of the extreme heat of the summer and extreme cold of the winter. Bison were perfectly adapted to this...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
“Our Baudrillardian hyper-reality is one in which world-altering inventions must...”
– grinding.be » Blog Archive » The future is here, but it’s incomplete (via wildcat2030)