TED: OK Go - How to find a wonderful idea
Very cool TED talk by OK Go - whimsical, insightful, informative and musical.
Very cool TED talk by OK Go - whimsical, insightful, informative and musical.
"The idea that the Maya or Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology" "[and] dwell[s] on the supposed failures of pre-modern and non-Western societies rather than stressing their resilience in the face of difficulties or recalling the Western role in their eventual cultural destruction."
"This week Richard Dawkins' remarkable book The God Delusion is released in Australia."
In The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock claims we've passed the point of no return with climate change.
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour, we try to do just that.
Alain de Botton questions what we are really seeking in the news, and whether it does us any good.
This is no doubt a bit thick, but I didn't expect this to be formatted like <tt>man</tt> pages! It's an impressive effort given there were 20 unix installations at the time.
His new book is called Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany. It's an exploration of humor in Germany before, during, and immediately after the Nazi years; including both the humor of the Nazis, of their subjects, and of their targets.
A great interview circa the release of The Psychopath Test.
Cory Doctorow's keynote at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin (2012).
The Problem: John could negotiate an arrangement.
A great talk promoting the Hieroglyph anthology, designed to inspire optimistic technologies to solve the Earth's most urgent problems
How Indigenous people have shaped Australia's landscape prior to settlement.
What economists can learn from Manning Clark: Is it possible to plan 100 years into the future? What are enlargers and punishers and what influence have they had on Australia's past, present and possible futures?
This is another great interview with Tim O'Reilly.
Not promising a very good future...
The story of how basic questions about what to eat got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and journalism.
It seems it's taking rather too long for me to read these pages, so I'm going to post the links here and close the tabs.
These are outliers (the 99th percentile is 4 months), but that leaves 50 odd pages that were open for a couple of years and the worst for nearly 3.5 years!
Discussing Total Immersion Swimming technique.
MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture "food computers".
via jwz
From 2005.
Genuine reconciliation is not possible until we acknowledge Australia's frontier wars, says historian Henry Reynolds.
Australia has been at war for 60 of the 78 years since WW2 started.
Another interesting project!