Monday, 2 December 2024
quote [ Alexandre Grothendieck, who is considered one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry, left a considerable mark on mathematics through his genius and his reflections on his time. Ten years after his death, the mathematician Leila Schneps revisits his legacy. ]
Interesting interview about a clever French person.
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quote [ Researchers found these dusty clumps of green and brown may be hiding how they get it on. ]
Just like every lichen, how you stick to me
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Sunday, 1 December 2024
quote [ What Reisner called a “discrete alliance” of environmentalists and fiscal hawks backed the 1986 Water Resources Development Act, which forced local governments to fund a chunk of future dam projects themselves. Beard said that bill never would have become law without support from Republicans like Tom Petri, a Wisconsin representative at the time. “He was this sort of noble warrior about dams, saying, ‘This is wrong! This is wrong!’ ” Beard said, chuckling. “We were like, ‘Yeah, well, we all know it’s wrong.’ ” ]
Stopping a running train etc. Going eco means going the cheap route, it seems.
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quote [ Redbox left 24,000 abandoned DVD rental kiosks. These are some of the people recovering them. ]
I'm standing outside the Redbox
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Saturday, 30 November 2024
quote [ the video circled around the web for a few years, and quietly disappeared from every single site it was hosted at. ]
… until the author found it archive.org.
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quote [ On the complex pleasures of harvesting shellfish with the people you love. ]
to the intertidal
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Friday, 29 November 2024
quote [ He undoubtedly was aware of his increased productivity, but as to the quality and substance of the content, as its creator, he perhaps was not best placed to judge. ]
Great quotes on how our tools transform our thoughts.
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quote [ Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. “For every five people who read this book“, wrote one reviewer, “four will go insane”. Joshua Blu Buhs recounts Fort’s early life, unfinished manuscripts (“X”, “Y”), and the philosophical monism that informed his research. ]
Place your palm upon the book of the damned
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Thursday, 28 November 2024
quote [ The isolated, hermit kingdom of the DPRK is shrouded in secrecy, It's nearly impossible to get any reliable information from behind the bamboo curtain. Nonetheless, every week, on T.V. and online, we are bombarded by the bizarre media-spectacle of North Korea. From nuclear apocalypse and prison camps to banned sarcasm and compulsory identical haircuts - any shred of information regarding North Korea becomes a viral media hit, regardless of how dubious the story is.
But that's all about to change. Two Aussie boys decided to take matters into their own hands and go to North Korea to find out the truth for themselves. Join us as we look past the click-bait and unpack the forces behind the way our media represents the "Democratic People's Republic of North Korea". ] Gobble, gobble, y'all.
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quote [ A new paper published in the journal Communications Psychology examines the acoustical elements of the unique shrieking sounds produced by those whistles, as well as how human listeners are emotionally affected by the sounds. The findings support the hypothesis that such whistles may have been used in Aztec religious rituals or perhaps as mythological symbols. ]
Quote is from an Ars Technica review, link goes to screaming whistle samples from the university.
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