October 2011
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Watchtheatlanticvideo:
This Is Probably as Close as You’ll Get to Being an Astronaut
Our highlight reel of NASA’s spectacular time-lapse videos of Earth, as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Station
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
You Are Data—4MB to Be Exact
Bits and Base Pairs explores the concept that the information encoded in our DNA can be compressed down to just 4MB, the equivalent, for example, of “the three floppy disks you owned in 1999.” To think of ourselves as mere data can feel mundane (the scientists who worked out the compression called their paper “Human Genomes as Email Attachments”),...
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“That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day – that is, forget oneself.”
- Anna Karenina, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
10/24/2011. a cold monday morning. big ideas in motion. reinvention earned. more to come.
take it easy on yourself. opportunity is coming.
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Science reveals the capitalist network that runs... →
AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
The study’s assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems...
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Watchfriendlyatheist:
Video captures the moment a deaf woman is able to hear her voice for the first time using an implanted hearing aid.
This is what science has brought. Not prayer, belief in god or faith. Just plain observation, experimentation, trial and error. Science and human progress. How beautiful. Almost made me cry.
-FA
beautiful
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Watchthom-yorkes-manhood:
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood perform Give Up The Ghost from The King Of Limbs on Jimmy Fallon last night (October 3rd, 2011)
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