I generally want to never link to TED content, but the animation of DNA at around 3:30-4:00 minutes in is pretty awesome.
Very long, and very convincing, argument about why Brix are a crap measure of food quality.
I don't understand Minecraft well enough to understand this, but I still think it's cool.
Cool article on Joi. He also published an "unabridged" version on his blog.
"Two recent articles call for an openness revolution in science: one on GigaOM and the other in the Wall Street Journal. But they’ve got it all wrong. These folks are missing that the process of scientific discovery is not, at its core, an open process. It only becomes an open process at the point of publication."
The husband of Susan Silbey, my methods instructor and a brilliant mentor, passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Drugs may also let us fly around and shut lasers out of our fingertips!
I don't really see how this a new paradigm, but maybe that's just didn't because I didn't read the book yet.
"Science and reason are discomforting precisely because they have been carefully devised to allow nature to speak to us and to divulge its secrets, quite independently of what we would prefer to hear. Once we realize this, and we thus become willing to accept unpleasant but validated truths in place of comforting myths, we are far better prepared to recognize, address, and perchance solve, the myriad of problems presented to us by a complex civilization and a threatened natural estate. It is true that technology, applied without reasonable foresight or moral constraint, has brought us to our current environmental peril. But organized, cumulative and institutional reason - which is to say, science - is our best way out."
I only know about this because of XKCD, but it's still pretty awesome...
How to become an immortally famous scientists. Easy!
"The Global Responsibility License (GRL) makes it easier for patent holders to make a significant contribution to aiding vulnerable populations in the poorest countries because it is a modular license, created specifically for the use of IP for development purposes."
"It's not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It's as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger." I'm not sure that sentence even makes sense, but it sure is intriguing.
