January 2011
50 posts
YouTube - Eli Neiburger at the LJ/SLJ eBook... →
What are some good pieces of music to listen to... →
“What happened? Leigh Simmons, a biologist at the University of Western...”
– The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker
http://tickets.burningman.com/ →
Extreme Planet Makeover →
itsfullofstars:
The “Extreme Planet Makeover” on the NASA/JPL PlanetQuest site lets you roll up your sleeves and create your very own planet.
Balance five factors to create an Earth-like habitable world, or get wild and make your own extreme exoplanet. Use the Image Gallery feature to compare your creation with those of other Earthlings. Once you’ve finished creating the exoplanet of your...
Science Proves You're Stupid →
You can’t understand your brain unless you break it. Without brain damage, you are incapable of acquiring any insight into how your mind works, because your brain is sublimely designed to trick you into thinking you have a clue.
Journal publisher Elsevier cuts free access for... →
qed:
Suddenly the boundaries were down. A doctor in downtown Nairobi might have a clinic with crumbling walls and precious little equipment, but he had access to the same cutting-edge knowledge as any medic in New York or London.
Until now. Of late, it seems that commerce has trumped altruism. HINARI, the Health InterNetwork for Access to Research Initiative that the WHO set up, appears...
OSI model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of...”
– Five Emotions Invented By The Internet « Thought Catalog
Lemmatisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“We are absolutely hemorrhaging postadolescent chocolate labs, and no one seems...”
– Iams Executives Scrambling To Figure Out Why Brand Is Losing 2- To 4-Year-Old Chocolate Labs | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“I wonder what the proprietor of this restaurant thinks about immigration! I hope...”
– Nobody. (via neversaidaboutrestaurantwebsites)
“Such tick-box definitions are a form of ”self-reduction”, says Jaron...”
– Sad truth behind the numbers of Facebook friends
“While Braille can give the blind the ability to read, much of the text one...”
– Medgadget.com — Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies (via dwattersw)
“It is not the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest...”
– Wikipedia Comes of Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
I couldn’t agree more.
The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace →
Readers outside academe caught on to Wallace before scholars did. When he died, academic interest in him had only begun to show real signs of life, with scholars starting to look closely at the ways in which Wallace responded to and reshaped for a new generation the postmodernism practiced by writers like Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon. Two years later, spurred in part by his death but even more...
Search Engine Blacklist →
onethingwell:
Easily blacklist spam sites from ever appearing in your Google search results again.
A Chrome extension to help rid your search results of content farms, splogs, MFA pages and half-arsed how-to sites.
Also worth mentioning: search engine Duck Duck Go has a built-in blacklist of spammy sites, as does Blekko (though their approach may be too aggressive).
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This is great.
“Thanks to research, there’s mounting evidence implying that the lowly...”
– Comic Sans Promotes Better Reading Comprehension? | The Atlantic Wire
