Tag Archives: Science

2011 Sep 20 Tuesday

Architecture: Is it for people or for cameras?

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Where in Valencia would you rather hang out…? Here?: VALENCIA – Plaza de la Verge Or here?: VALENCIA – Città delle Arti e delle Scienze

by Jeff @ 12:39 am

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2010 Jun 04 Friday

Pointing to the future of UI by John Underkoffler (via TED.com)

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You’ve seen the movie-version of Philip K. Dick‘s Minority Report, right? You remember those goofy-looking hand gestures Tom Cruise made while interacting with the computers of the future, right? Those gestures have been the source of many jokes between UI/UX experts, but yesterday I found out they were nothing to laugh about. Those gestures were [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:33 pm

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2010 Apr 22 Thursday

Google celebrates Earth Day, but not me

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Google has a lovely doodle honoring Earth Day today. Personally not planning anything to observe the occasion since I believe we should be living everyday like the Earth needs our help… Google

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:22 pm

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2010 Mar 23 Tuesday

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions (via TED.com)

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Values are an area of human knowledge and experience that is magnetic: it attracts debate but also repels thought. Sam Harris very carefully spells out why it is completely insane to keep science out of the realm of moral values: Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 4:00 pm

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2010 Jan 22 Friday

“House of Numbers” looks beneath the surface of HIV/ AIDS

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It should be no surprise that a huge amount the knowledge that we all carry in our heads bears very little resemblance to reality. Our first-hand knowledge of the world is adulterated by our own sloppy memory systems and emotional filters. The reliability of the second-hand knowledge we have is orders of magnitude more suspect. [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:41 pm

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2010 Jan 09 Saturday

Good quote about the mind

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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. -Nikola Tesla More Tesla quotes

by Dr. Agonize @ 10:58 am

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2009 Jul 28 Tuesday

650 Million Years in One Minute, Twenty Seconds

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Watch Earth’s tectonic plates shift in this accelerated computer simulation: 650 Million Years In 1:20 Min.

by Dr. Agonize @ 9:00 am

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2009 Jul 18 Saturday

“New Software Corrects Shaky Camerawork by Warping the Crap Out of It” (via Gizmodo)

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Adobe and University of Wisconsin scientists have created software that can correct shaky camerawork, but it’s way cooler than anything on the market now. Using 3D modeling, it guesses the intended look, then warps the original video to adjust. New Software Corrects Shaky Camerawork by Warping the Crap Out of It (via Gizmodo)

by Dr. Agonize @ 6:25 pm

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2009 Jul 10 Friday

Spreading the Tesla love (via Google)

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Happy 153rd B-day Nikola Tesla! nikola tesla – Google Search

by Dr. Agonize @ 9:57 am

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2009 Apr 27 Monday

Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion

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For Teller (that’s his full legal name), magic is more than entertainment. He wants his tricks to reveal the everyday fraud of perception so that people become aware of the tension between what is and what seems to be. Our brains don’t see everything—the world is too big, too full of stimuli. So the brain [...]

by Jeff @ 3:15 pm

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