May 2013
17 posts
Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial...
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Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex?
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You likely already know how overcrowded and abusive the US prison system is, and you probably are also aware that the US has more people in prison than even China or Russia. In this age of privatization, of course, it’s also not surprising that many of the detention...
Motoi Yamamoto's mazes - just salt there
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Sings David Bowie’s... →
CO2 is now at 400 parts per million for the first time > so it goes… up...
– BBC News - Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark
Ray Harryhausen (1920 - 2013) > Rest in peace... →
Mind blowing > Processing Large Hadron Collider... →
Kurt Vonnegut to John F. Kennedy: ‘On Occasion, I... →
Kurt Vonnegut to John F. Kennedy: ‘On Occasion, I Write Pretty Well’
TEDxCERN is about to begin — watch along [feedly]
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TEDxCERN is about to begin — watch along
For the past 59 years, the European Organization for Nuclear Research — better known as CERN — has been a nucleus of innovation, bringing us both the World Wide Web in 1983 and last year’s discovery of what appears to be the Higgs boson. Today, CERN will host its first TEDx event, with speakers...
April 2013
15 posts
I secretly think reality exists so we can... →
How much Cocaine fits in your Ass › Nerdcore →
Storm Thorgerson - RIP - his Pink Floyd album art,... →
Do Not Touch - Celebrate the nearing end of the humble computer cursor
Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness →
The Essence of Quantum Mechanics - S4A →
Sir Robert Edwards - RIP →
It’s alive! Researchers use 3D printer to create... →
March 2013
14 posts
The Evolution of the Web →
Meanwhile... Shrinking Blob Computes!!! There! →
New Mumbai (by Tobias Revell)
BBC Knowledge Explainer DNA (by Territory)
Lockheed Martin “Perforene” →
Bruce Sterling, wired.com
*I don’t wanna get all handwavey here, but if this graphene vaporware actually worked out in practice, we’d have to forgive Lockheed Martin for everything else they’ve ever done — plus maybe even give them Nobels and McMansion palaces in former…
Bruce Sterling's closing SXSW keynote: disruption... →
Croissant de Triomphe: First Mickey Mouse-Cartoon... →
Magnifying the Universe →
February 2013
11 posts
The Men Who Made Space Colonies Look Like Home →