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≡ Category: Math, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Canadian software developer Matthias Wandel enjoys spending his spare time creating wooden contraptions that combine a childlike sense of wonder with an engineer’s knowledge of mechanics. One of his most popular creations so far is this six-bit binary adding machine, which has tallied nearly one and a half million views on YouTube. As Rick Regan explains [...]
≡ Category: Math | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s rare that we get to cover math here. So here it goes: Adrian Banner, a lecturer at Princeton, has put together a lecture series (in video) that will help you master calculus, a subject that has traditionally frustrated many students. The 24 lectures (click here) were originally presented as review sessions for Princeton introductory [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
In early 1960, Hunter S. Thompson was just 22 years old and his journalism career was already on the skids. His last two jobs had ended badly. At one place he was fired for insubordination; at the other, for smashing the office candy machine in a fit of rage after it swallowed his money. So [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Religion, Science | ≅ 2 Comments
Produced at the Vancouver Film School, this split-screen animation tells the story of Earth’ s origins from a creationist and Darwinist/evolutionist point of view. To make things more interesting (spoiler: stop reading now if you want to maintain the element of surprise), the scientific story is told using religious language, whereas the Biblical version is [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick fyi: We previewed the title track a few weeks back. Now, you can stream the full album for free, courtesy of NPR. But don’t delay, the free tracks will only linger for a limited time…. Related Content: David Lynch Talks Meditation with Paul McCartney David Lynch’s Organic Coffee (Barbie Head Not Included) David [...]
≡ Category: Random, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
5 million terabytes of information. That’s what you get when you bundle up all of the emails, videos, photos, web sites and sundry materials available on the web. Now here’s the big question: how much does all of that information weigh? No spoilers here. We’ll let the folks at VSauce give you the answer. PS The 5 [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Poetry, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Perhaps you know the backstory; perhaps you don’t. This week, socialite and reality “star” Kim Kardashian announced that her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries will end in divorce. In response, the tabloids buzzed … and famed author Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses and The Moor’s Last Sigh) took to Twitter and offered up a nice [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ 2 Comments
In the early 1980s, aspiring filmmaker Jim Jarmusch immersed himself in New York’s underground music scene. He played keyboards–a “fairly primitive Moog synthesizer”–in places like CBGB and the Mudd Club with a No Wave band called The Del-Byzanteens and was deeply influenced by the spirit of punk rock. “The aesthetics of that scene really gave me [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene returns to PBS, this time presenting The Fabric of the Cosmos, a four-part look at the “mind-boggling reality beneath the surface of our everyday world.” The first segment, “What Is Space?,” airs tonight at 9pm. Then come the remaining installments – “The Illusion of Time” (11/9), “Quantum Leap” (11/16), and “Universe or Multiverse?” [...]
≡ Category: Books, Life, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
A mere twenty months after Joan Didion’s husband, John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, Didion’s only child, Quintana Roo Dunne, contracted pneumonia, lapsed into septic shock and passed away. She was only 39 years old. Didion grappled with the first death in her 2005 bestseller, The Year of Magical Thinking. Now, with her [...]
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