April 2011
26 posts
MinnPost - I mapped Minnesota UFO sightings -- ask... →
David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain : The... →
“There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science,” he told me. “But we live these short life spans. Why not do the thing that’s the coolest thing in the world to do?”
dat.gui →
Slick .JS library for creating inline controls for JS variables.
CBC.ca | Ideas | How To Think About Science, Part... →
This is the best podcast series you’ll ever spend 24 hours listening too. Highlights are Lee Smolin & Peter Galison.
“Graphs have become easier to read, though their minimalist uniformity sometimes...”
– How to make data look sexy - CNN.com
A Better Way to Teach Math - NYTimes.com →
Imagine if someone at a dinner party casually announced, “I’m illiterate.” It would never happen, of course; the shame would be too great. But it’s not unusual to hear a successful adult say, “I can’t do math.” That’s because we think of math ability as something we’re born with, as if there’s a “math gene” that you either inherit or you don’t.
Systems Esthetics - Jack Burnham →
“Graphs have become easier to read, though their minimalist uniformity sometimes...”
– How to make data look sexy - CNN.com
Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered... →
“We now understand a novel to be a mapping of a writer’s experience onto a waking...”
– Jonathan Franzen on Robinson Crusoe in The New Yorker
This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek →
“If instead of pointing their incredible infrastructure at making people click on ads,” he likes to ask, “they pointed it at great unsolved problems in science, how would the world be different today?”
News Flows, Consciousness Streams: The Headwaters... →
“We want it to feel almost like an organism that is living and breathing and consuming the news,” Mr. Rubin said, adding that someone who had not seen the paper or Web site would be able to watch the screens for several minutes and begin to get a sense of that day’s biggest events, though in a way that might feel more like floating on the newspaper’s stream of consciousness than reading it.
willem besselink - physical representation of data →
“This has been an ongoing theme of Harper’s for some time now. During a speech to...”
– Vote for anyone else at your peril, Canada - Scott Feschuk - Macleans.ca
“I have a problem with sonifications that express very little about the data...”
– Euler’s Number and the price of fish
Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help... →
sonification.de →
