January 2012
3 posts
“The wrinkly balls did not yield all of their mysteries.”
– Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper - physics-math - 05 January 2012 - New Scientist
December 2011
11 posts
“Any multicellular animal, from a blue whale to a human being, poses a special...”
– via sciencedaily
“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Louis CK
“But Prometheus claims much more than its specific testing process. It claims a...”
– from ars technica
10 tags
“When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh,...”
– from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
“When we detect the Stokes photon we know we have created a phonon, but we...”
– from Nature: Entangled diamonds vibrate together
November 2011
6 posts
REQUIRED READING: Paramilitary Policing From... →
The chief of police during Seattle’s WTO protests — himself directly responsible for toxic solvent laced tear gassings of nonviolent protesters during the Battle in Seattle — decries the currently rampant use of paramilitary police tactics in and sketches a path forward.
“Dan Siegel, Mayor Jean Quan’s legal adviser, posted on Facebook that he...”
– Occupy Oakland Live Blog: Police say 32 arrested, inlcuding clergy member
“The individuals who linked arms and actively resisted, that in itself is an act...”
– UC cops’ use of batons on Occupy camp questioned
“It’s nearly impossible to change the country. The only way that that could...”
– http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/occupy-oakland-black-bloc
“Unless there’s something we don’t know, that’s one of the most...”
– Experts in police use of force shocked by Oakland video - San Jose Mercury News
October 2011
8 posts
“Just like pretty much everyone else on the planet, occupiers may want many...”
– Douglas Rushkoff at CNN.com
“During the recent debate to reauthorize sections of the Patriot Act, two members...”
– From this op ed in the Washington Post
Going beyond ideology
The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem
like news to New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see
photo). But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a
network of power. It...
A cacophany of Barthesian myth-making
“Now, distanced from the actual event, the picture seemed strange and surreal. It asked questions but provided no answers.”
The photographer on his image, from this article
And an editorial on the same photograph.
“If we de-privilege all positions, we can assert no position, we cannot therefore...”
– Postmodernism is dead | Prospect Magazine
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September 2011
4 posts
“Shoshana Hebshi, who describes herself as a “half-Arab, half-Jewish...”
– from boingboing
“Qualifications are necessary sometimes. Anticipating and defusing opposing...”
– Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace - NYTimes.com
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
9 posts
“The earth is full. Our human society and economy has grown so large that we have...”
– Author Paul Gilding Talks Wild Weather And Global Warming | On Point with Tom Ashbrook
WatchHooray For Earth - True Loves (by Dovecote Records)
WatchCall Your Girlfriend (by Robyn)
Google Will Eat Itself →
We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end “we” own it!
“Together Yadhav and Sarkar grew into one of the main blood suppliers in the...”
– Book Excerpt: Exposing India’s Blood Farmers | Wired Science | Wired.com
May 2011
12 posts
“I’ve always suspected that the Ommwriter beta was released as an elaborate joke,...”
– One Thing Well
