How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars – Page 2 of 5 “Landing on the moon is in the same category as putting the first man in space or the first person climbing Mt. Everest—it’s a great achievement for mankind. But if the first ocean animal to touch dry land simply lay there for a minute before being washed […]
Monthly Archives: August 2015
How to Make Sales on Instagram in 3 Easy Steps (Full-Strategy Infographic!)
2015.08.18 – 00:59
How to Make Sales on Instagram in 3 Easy Steps (Full-Strategy Infographic!) from: August 18, 2015 at 12:52AM
When A Child’s Picky Eating Becomes More Than A Nuisance
2015.08.17 – 13:29
When A Child’s Picky Eating Becomes More Than A Nuisance from: August 17, 2015 at 01:10PM
Inside Industrial Light & Magic’s secret Star Wars VR lab | The Verge
2015.08.15 – 12:40
Inside Industrial Light & Magic’s secret Star Wars VR lab | The Verge “It’s aspirational stuff, and as he riffs I notice the team shares an unexpected point of inspiration: Disneyland. “Walt Disney believed that he could take a fantasy world from cinema that he was making, and basically create a physical experience that you […]
I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.
2015.08.14 – 11:27
I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried. The movement has a very real demographic problem, which contributes to very real intellectual blinders of the kind that give rise to the AI obsession. And it’s hard to imagine that yoking EA to one of the whitest and […]
Lunch with the FT: Mariana Mazzucato
2015.08.14 – 09:42
Lunch with the FT: Mariana Mazzucato “We are living in a depressing era in which we no longer have courage. We no longer think governments should have missions. But the market never chooses anything. IT wasn’t chosen by the market. Biotech wasn’t chosen by the market. Nanotech wasn’t chosen by the market. So why should […]
Micromegas: Voltaire’s Trailblazing Sci-Fi Philosophical Homage to Newton and the Human Condition, in a Rare Vintage Children’s Book
2015.08.14 – 09:14
Micromegas: Voltaire’s Trailblazing Sci-Fi Philosophical Homage to Newton and the Human Condition, in a Rare Vintage Children’s Book from: August 14, 2015 at 08:58AM
The Future of Work: Why Wages Aren’t Keeping Up
2015.08.14 – 09:11
The Future of Work: Why Wages Aren’t Keeping Up “The custom is to think of value added in a corporation (or in the economy as a whole) as just the sum of the return to labor and the return to capital. But that is not quite right. There is a third component which I will […]
Tweet by Sports_Greats
2015.08.13 – 10:12
People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours. — Sports Quotes (@Sports_Greats) August 13, 2015 via https://twitter.com/Sports_Greats
Tweet by JustinWolfers
2015.08.13 – 08:32
The FT has the greatest "404 page not found" error message in the history of the internet. (HT @janzilinsky) pic.twitter.com/OxdM4oGJIY — Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) August 11, 2015 via https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers
Science vs. religion… or science and religion? « The Berkeley Blog
2015.08.12 – 00:17
Science vs. religion… or science and religion? « The Berkeley Blog “By a huge margin, a Gallup Poll shows, Americans disagree that “science and religion are incompatible” (69% to 17%). Thus, underlying Americans’ views, these studies suggest, is not a simple divide – knowledge versus ignorance, Reason versus Faith, or science versus religion – but […]
Zero to Mandalay: Myanmar and the game nobody wins
2015.08.10 – 14:52
Zero to Mandalay: Myanmar and the game nobody wins “I’d seen enough chinlone, or thought I had seen enough. I still honestly can’t say whether watching five minutes of the game or five days’ would be enough. It was hard to say you’d even seen it, or that it was even you seeing it. Something […]
Perfect Compromise: Welcome to the nerve-wracking reality of being Finland.
2015.08.08 – 23:41
Perfect Compromise: Welcome to the nerve-wracking reality of being Finland. “What distinguishes Finland from France and even Hungary is its geographic proximity and historic intimacy with Russia. So another layer of romance and danger is added: Russia appeals to those who need to side with the more powerful. This is exactly what scares Sofi Oksanen […]
A Good Sentence on Foreign Policy
2015.08.08 – 23:10
A Good Sentence on Foreign Policy “(Good) Foreign policy and military intervention is about figuring out actual intentions and capabilities without making self-fulfilling prophecies.”
Welcome To The Nerve-Wracking Reality Of Being Finland
2015.08.08 – 23:01
Welcome To The Nerve-Wracking Reality Of Being Finland from: August 8, 2015 at 10:47PM
Why doesn’t dark matter form black holes?
2015.08.08 – 12:07
Why doesn’t dark matter form black holes? “Dark matter can’t form black holes or other tightly-bound structures because gravity alone isn’t enough to bind something tightly together. Because the force of gravity is so weak, it can only bind it loosely, which means huge, diffuse, very massive structures. If you want a “clump” of something — a […]
Kelly Clancy on the Logic Behind the Myth That We Only Use 10 Percent of Our Brains
2015.08.07 – 17:20
Kelly Clancy on the Logic Behind the Myth That We Only Use 10 Percent of Our Brains “Theoretical neuroscientists struck on a beautiful compromise between these ideas in the late ’90s.6,7 In this strategy, dubbed the sparse code, perceptions are encoded by the activity of several neurons at once, as with the dense code. But […]
*The Almost Nearly Perfect People*
2015.08.07 – 01:09
*The Almost Nearly Perfect People* from: August 7, 2015 at 01:02AM