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The story goes that Amsterdam in the 1630s was gripped by a mania for Tulip flowers. But then there was a crash in the market. People ended up bankrupt and threw themselves into canals. This story is still being trotted out when people talk about financial markets lately as a comparison to buying and selling bitcoin. But how much of what we know of the Tulip craze is fact, and how much is myth? We speak to Anne Goldgar at Kings College London who explains all.
This sounds very interesting - creating monitoring tools for data quality "by example".
An interesting static site content management system hybrid.
Really good interview with Don Hoffman explaining his theory that evolution selects against having an objective view of reality.
The Problem : Faces were not part of the deal.
Another really great Long Now talk - I'm definitely a believer!
Great conversation with Rodney Brooks (iRobot & Rethink Robotics) on the history & future of AI and robots, with some sobering arguments against the idea of a coming AI apocalypse.
This one is a fascinating "turns out".
Waking Up Podcast #116 - Sam Harris speaks with Eliezer Yudkowsky about the nature of intelligence, different types of AI, the “alignment problem,” is vs ought, the possibility that future AI might deceive us, the AI arms race, conscious AI, coordination problems, and other topics.
Mo and Scott share their thoughts and struggle in this cancer diary they started the day after Mo was diagnosed.
In which the world's worst chemist gives everyone lead poisoning, and then puts a hole in the ozone layer as an encore. See also my small Successlessness post from 2004 :)
Rob Reid and Andy McAfee discuss the future of work and jobs and the nature of exponential progress.
Including the Damascus Accident story from Command and Control.
Jeff Atwood talks with Dave Rael about the human side of software development, blogging, connections, tackling problems, empathy, and shared experience.
Terry Crews is a very interesting & impressive guy!
Waking Up podcast #110 - a nice interview with the always interesting A.J. Jacobs.
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.
Interview with Tim Urban from Wait But Why on managing procrastination, predicting the future, and finding happiness.
Derek Sivers on developing confidence, finding happiness, and saying “no” to millions.
"Derek tells us how he put all of his money from the sale (22 million USD) into a charitable trust"
From the 2010 Railsconf.
2010 Railsconf keynote.
2010 discussion on the morality of the global trade in medicine.
Interview with Mark Frauenfelder, author and founder of BoingBoing, on The Sound of Young America.
Tim Ferriss's Long Now talk from 02011.