Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Assorted Mating Science

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Ballistic penises and corkscrew vaginas – the sexual battles of ducks Bad News for Roosters: If You Aren’t King of the Henhouse, Your Eja...

The Biggest Biometric Project in World

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Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID ; The unprecedented scale of Aadhaar’s data will make managing it extraordinaril...

Maths Podcast of the Day - A short history of symmetry

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Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry by Ian Stewart Related: Maths Book Recommendations

A Mathematician tried moving a table

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William Feller was a probability theorist at Princeton University. One day he and his wife wanted to move a large table from one room of th...

When two mathematicians, an anthropologist and a criminologist meet

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In July the Santa Cruz Police Department began experimenting with an interesting bit of software developed by scientists at Santa Clara Univ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Assorted Art and Design Blogs

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The World's Best Ever Deanna Templeton buzzmuseaum Gear Petrol Unscathed Corpse Sisilia Paring
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Take an IT Course from Stanford for Free

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Introduction to Databases and more
Friday, August 26, 2011

The Age of Erotic Capital? Legal Protection for the Ugly?

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over a lifetime and assuming today’s mean wages, a handsome worker in America might on average make $230,000 more than a very plain one . T...

The Next Catastrophe-Charles B. Perrow

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Are you Normal?

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Attraction and feelings of desire drive our libidos, but Vivienne Parry asks what is "normal" . Is there such thing as a normal...

Environmentalists will be happy

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Recycyling Sex Toys
Sunday, August 7, 2011

What do Blind Mathematicians Study

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I was surprised to learn that the majority work in geometry, supposedly the most ‘visual’ discipline , and fascinated to learn that they gen...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Ramadan begins- Why Do We Fast?

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Source: Horn of Africa: on the brink of a humanitarian crisis , Ramadan begins

The Art of Listening- RASA

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Highly recommended talk by Julian Treasure (rating 5 out of 5); RASA- Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask Silence Help them to experi...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Economic Geography of a Data Centre Location

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Why did Facebook locate its new data centre in central Oregon? Babbage tries to explain. The reason, the centre's boss Ken Patchett ex...

Barry Schwartz's Practical Wisdom

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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Honey, the Algorithm did it

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And the thing is is that this isn't Google. This isn't information. These aren't financial stats; this is culture. And what you ...

May the Algorithm Bless You

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An interesti ng profile of Match.com; The way the Match algorithm learns, he says, is similar to the way the human brain learns. “When yo...

The Best MindMapping Software for iPhone

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Mindjet Mobile
Friday, February 18, 2011

Book Podcast of the Day

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Why Cities Rock Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier . By Edward Glae...

Loaning Electronic Books

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Interesting feature on Amazon- I've always thought one disadvantage of electronic books is that you can't share a good book with you...

Kindle needs lots of improvement

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Go figure : Figure 1 below- which one is from Kindle and which one's from the book? The book is Singapore's Success: Engineering ...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Cool i-phone Applications

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8 new mind mapping applications enable you to capture your ideas on the iPhone We recommend Mindjet's iPhone application ThinkDigits-...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Superior Autobiographical Memory

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Lesley Stahl reports on the recently discovered phenomenon of "superior autobiographical memory," the ability to recall nearly e...

Issues with Amazon Kindle

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Amazon's Kindle is great and terrible at the same time. I wish Amazon would improve the quality of diagrams and charts in the Kindle ver...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Cool i-phone Application

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We think iPhone Applications deserve its own category on this blog. Mindjet for iPhone from Mindjet on Vimeo . Mindjet’s iPhone App
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Effective Habits of Political Advisors

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“He was and is a bare-knuckles administrator, and by that I mean someone who not only makes the trains run on time, he makes them run ahead ...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Are you sponge worthy?

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In an episode of the television sitcom Seinfeld, Elaine Benes’s favorite contraceptive sponge is taken off the market. She scours pharmacie...

Cool Stuff

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All Our Ideas is a platform that enables groups to collect and prioritize ideas in a transparent, democratic, and bottom-up way. It’s a sug...

Sex and Religion

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Books Ngram Viewer

Holbrooke the Investment Banker

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Mr. Holbrooke also made millions as an investment banker on Wall Street. In the early 1980s, he was a co-founder of a Washington consulting ...

Be a Statistician, Be a Cynic

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“ I have a feeling that statisticians are cynics, because you realise how much of the stuff that you are told is true in the world is actual...
Friday, December 10, 2010

To Think About

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Stephen Walt writes; So if one leaked cable is just normal media fodder, how about two or three? What about a dozen? What's the magic...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Artist of the Day

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Counterlight's Peculiars
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

From one of may favorite authors

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Idea of the Day

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Cure Together
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Learn from Bees

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In the final chapter , Seeley suggests five lessons we could learn from bees. • Compose a decision-making group of individuals with shared...

Digital Age Literature Analysis

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Dan Cohen and Fred Gibbs, the two historians of science at George Mason University who have created the project, have so far charted how fre...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Book Cover Art - Sex at Dawn - and thoughts for reflection

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"Researchers have confirmed what most men already know: men tend to get turned on by images depicting an environment in which sperm com...

Exotic Spa of the Day- Coconut Spa

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Recommendation- Chocolat Body Scrub or Papaya Body Wrap
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Book Cover Art

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PROOFINESS -The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception By Charles Seife. Book reviews- by John Allen Paulos , STEVEN STROGATZ ,
Monday, September 20, 2010

Art of the Day- Pakistani Truck Art

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Granta- featuring Pakistani issues via Literary Blog- Isak
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Non Muslims and Koran

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Robert Wright makes an interesting point about interpretation of scriptures; All the Abrahamic scriptures have all kinds of meanings — goo...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Artists Rooms

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Interesting series from Guardian- Writers' Rooms

Memo to Self- Do you belong to the tribe of Infovore Warriors

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David Warsh profiles Tyler Cowen- Consider Cowen’s output last week on the blog – 34 items. Among them: entries n the the speech patterns...

Assorted websites

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Please Rob Me [don't post on Facebook that your houses are empty for the weeken] Graphy Your Inbox

The Future of Printing- where Data is the Design Product

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Freedom of Creation , based in Amsterdam, designs and prints exotic furniture and other fixtures for hotels and restaurants. It also makes i...
Friday, September 10, 2010

The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

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BURSTS: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do from Authors at Google. Related: Book Blog ; What exactly is a burst? ALB: A burst ...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Bertrand Russell's Three Passions

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Quote of the Day; Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, ...

John Grisham, the failed tax lawyer and construction worker

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Effective Habits from John Grisham - Halfway through college, and still drifting, I decided to become a high-powered tax lawyer. The plan ...