May 2011
39 posts
Hairpins by Tom Horton →
“Hairpins by Tom Horton”
RT @wired: BREAKING: Obi-Wan Kenobi has been killed by Imperial forces. Complete team coverage: http://bit.ly/lPLO8h
Just How Dangerous Is Sitting All Day? [INFOGRAPHIC] http://bit.ly/khasgU
Just How Dangerous Is Sitting All Day?... →
Sitting down, which most of us do for at least eight hours each day, might be the worst thing we do for our health all day.We’ve been preaching the benefits of stand-up desks for a while around here…
Re: Aether Displacement →
‘Frictionless supersolid a step closer’ [link] “Superfluidity and superconductivity cause particles to move without friction. Koos Gubbels investigated under what conditions such particles keep…
Re: Aether Displacement http://bit.ly/khDlvs
Happy Birthday David Hume | Cosmic Variance http://bit.ly/mNwKFR
Happy Birthday David Hume | Cosmic Variance →
David Hume, famous scolder of those who would derive “ought” from “is,” was born 300 years ago today. In point of fact Hume, while not enjoying the name recognition of Plato/Aristotle/Descartes/Kant,…
RT @grigs: “Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes, Apple’s Little Known Facts http://bit.ly/iXv0U6 /via @asymco
Jerry Seinfeld Puts His 30 Years of Comedy Online http://bit.ly/mg0n3Q
Jerry Seinfeld Puts His 30 Years of Comedy Online →
Jerry Seinfeld has launched a website, which serves as a warehouse for pretty much everything he’s ever performed.JerrySeinfeld.com went live Friday morning with three short comedy clips — “The…
Mapped Wiki →
Using the Wikipedia API this visualization tool grabs the articles that are linked to a main Wikipedia entry and counts all the categories that those articles belong to, while also exposing the most…
RT @elizabethsosnow: Study: Content Fuels Social Media Interaction via @marketingprofs http://bit.ly/kPwWE2
The Truth About American Exceptionalism →
Americans did not become rich because of our rugged individualism or entrepreneurial drive or technical inventiveness. We were born rich. Ann Richards’ famous description of George Bush Sr. as an individual is equally applicable to the United States as a whole, “He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.”
When asked to identify the single most important difference between the Old and...
25 Abandoned Soviet Monuments that look like they’re from the Future | Crack Two http://bit.ly/jf2b6U
