Bitcoin 101: What is Bitcoin? How does it work? Will it change society?
Intro/basic refresher video from Antranik that passed through my feeds.
Posts for 2017/12
Keller Rinaudo: How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives
TED talk on some pretty neat autonomous aircraft delivering medical supplies in East Africa.
Bill Gammage: Prevent bushfire the Aboriginal way
In The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia, Bill Gammage sets out the case that Aboriginal people managed the land with fire. He says it is clear that from paintings and written records of the early European explorers and settlers that they found a land often described as 'park-like' or 'like a gentleman's estate'. This he says was the result of centuries of land management based on the use of fire.
The Tim Ferriss Show: Tim Urban
Interview with Tim Urban from Wait But Why on managing procrastination, predicting the future, and finding happiness.
Manually Patched Equation Editor Executable
Nice write up on a manual binary patch to the MS Equation Editor plugin to fix a security vulnerability.
Nevada's Nuclear Test Site: It's Not the Moon, It's Nevada
This is incredible, though the interactive format leaves a bit to be desired.
Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
TED talk from 2010.
David Brooks: The social animal
TED talk from 2011.
The Tim Ferriss Show: Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers on developing confidence, finding happiness, and saying “no” to millions.
Venture Voice ep 50: Derek Sivers of CD Baby and Muckwork
"Derek tells us how he put all of his money from the sale (22 million USD) into a charitable trust"
Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself
2010 TED talk.
RSS Mix
Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed.
Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
"The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader."
Robert Martin: Twenty-Five Zeros
From the 2010 Railsconf.
Derek Sivers: Coming Back to Rails
2010 Railsconf keynote.
The Philosopher's Zone: Thomas Pogge - The right to property and the right to health
2010 discussion on the morality of the global trade in medicine.
Wait But Why: Putting Time In Perspective
Putting massive amounts of time in perspective is incredibly hard for humans, so we made this graphic (this is only a tiny piece of it!)
Numberphile: Clifford Stoll - An astonishing old calculator
That is a pretty epic machine!
TED: Paul Hessburg - Why wildfires have gotten worse and what we can do about it
"In 1910 [a huge wildfire] killed 87 people. Most of them were firefighters. [...] and this would shape the way we thought about wildfire in our society for the next 100 years."
Pre-colonial Australia: natural wilderness or gentleman’s park?
Indigenous scholar Marcia Langton rates Bill Gammage's exploration of Aboriginal land management, The Biggest Estate on Earth, as one of the great books.
Scientifically Accurate Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (#2)
Another version, lots of lyrics for this one.
Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle (#1)
First of a few of these.
TED: Louie Schwartzberg - The hidden beauty of pollination
Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators.
The Sound of Young America: Mark Frauenfelder
Interview with Mark Frauenfelder, author and founder of BoingBoing, on The Sound of Young America.
TEDx: Drew Berry - Astonishing molecular machines
Scientifically accurate and aesthetically rich biomedical visualisations of the microscopic world inside our bodies.