I had to make a poster on some technical topic for one of my writing classes, chose HTML5. It’s meant for a pretty general (but educated) audience. Figured it might also be useful to others though (:
Symphony of Science - ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) (via melodysheep)
So we’ve probably all seen six word stories … but probably not from such famous authors as these!
Except for global warming, there has been no more drastic human alteration of the landscape in the last fifty years than the damming, regulation, and diversion of the world’s rivers.
– Daniel Beard, quoted in When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce, p. 133.One of the ironies of modern science is that some of its most profound discoveries — like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, or the emergent nature of consciousness — are actually about the limits of science. As Vladimir Nabokov, the novelist and lepidopterist, once put it, “The greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery.”
We now know enough to know that we will never know everything. This is why we need art: it teaches us [how to] live with mystery.
– Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, p. 196About me
It seems lately there've been a lot of people misinterpreting my tumblr. All I do here is post things that make me think or that are newsworthy. As I originally said, "just a collection of links that interest me and that I think you nerds will enjoy." Whether I agree with them or not is beside the point. The point is for us to gather what knowledge we can from the article, think about it, and then move on.
"When somebody persuades me that I am wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?" --John Maynard Keynes
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