The Making of TANK
This is beautiful, complex, painstaking and fairly insane!
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TED: Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers - Steven Pinker
"Why don't people appreciate progress?"
Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history) - Heraclitean River
Turns out...
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TED: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes - Gwynne Shotwell
Chris Anderson talking with SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell about BFR etc.
Electricity Map - Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
Electricity Map is a live visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.
Chase
Amazing how persistence of vision causes our brains to insist that this has to be the same object moving/changing shape, as we never evolved to consider rapid switching of images to even be a possibility...
An amazing approximation of e
An amazing pandigital approximation to e that is correct to 18457734525360901453873570 decimal digits found by R. Sabey in 2004.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1945026/an-amazing-approximation-of-e
Curious Droid: What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMo7jUs0GMs
Simon Stålenhag Art Gallery
Some very cool paintings!
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Howardism: Org as a Word Processor
Some nice info on how to get emacs' org-mode looking nice (well, for a plain text format at least).
Literate Devops with Emacs
Very neat demo of org-mode code blocks.
Poisson distributions and the Hitchhiker's paradox
That is some bizarre probability theory!
https://the8layers.com/2016/10/30/how-long-will-you-wait-hitchhiking-on-the-road/
Stewart Brand: Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now
"We want a temporary use permit for the clock, eventually -- 10,000-year temporary use permit."!
https://en.tiny.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_on_the_long_now
Clock of the Long Now - Installation Begins
Not long now?
Curious Droid: How NASA Filmed Apollo, the Shuttle and Other Launches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjofYotlaY0
TED: What's it like to be a robot? - Leila Takayama
Some good stuff in this: tele-presence and the usefulness of not fully autonomous robots.
Wikipedia: List of oldest living people
What an amazing list! Australia's doing fairly well, men not so much...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_superlatives
engineerguy: Britain's Giant Airship - R.101
This thing was epic!
34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
Amazing Apollo hardware.
Feynman - Many Mathematical Representations and Resulting Paradoxes
Feynman discusses three equivalent representations of the theory of gravity.
Equivalent representations of physical theories drive the plot in Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (made into the movie Arrival) (Fermat's principle of least time in that instance).
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
Excellent metaphor.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/17/lowest-difficulty-setting-follow-up/
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/23/final-notes-for-lowest-difficulty-setting/
CommEngReport - Jeff Atwood
Good interview with Jeff Atwood on CommEngReport with Kim Crayton.
TED: The mind behind Linux - Linus Torvalds
Chris Anderson interviews Linus Torvalds and they discuss Linux, Git and Open Source software.
Istra High Voltage Research Center
Towering up above a forest near Moscow is the strange configuration of tubes that were once used as a shockingly powerful lightning machine.
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/abandoned-marx-generator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istra_High_Voltage_Research_Center
https://www.rt.com/news/181748-tesla-marx-generator-lightning/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator
Elephants Making Huge Snowballs
A zoo in Ontario, Canada has found that elephants have fun playing in the snow. Cheetahs, on the other hand, aren't so excited.