By Duncan Geere, Wired UK
The unprecedented flooding in Pakistan in the latter half of 2010 disrupted the lives of 20 million people, but it also affected the country’s arachnid…
Read this in an article about Reddit,
But Reddit.com is still one of the internet’s most popular sites with over a billion pageviews a month.
I realize a billion is a big number, but I figured even GeorgiaVIEW could be getting half a billion pageviews a month. January 15th to February 14th (our peak 30 day period), we did about 774 million pageviews. In the last 30 days we did about 600 million while some kids are on spring break (sic?).
There must be online learning systems larger than…
Photo of me by Wesley Abney
At a party last night, a woman asked where I am from. I told her my hometown. She said, “No, no, no, where are your parents from.” I thought, “Oh, boy, I know where this is going.” So I told her my father is black and my mother white. She wanted to know what part of Africa he is from. I told her my father’s first cousin got the mitochondrial DNA tested and it was from Ghana, but both mDNA goes mother to child so his relationship to this cousin is…
We had this on VHS back in the day when my little brother was young. It was a collection of shorts. This is the only one which still haunts me…
The original song is mentioned on Wikipedia: The Cat Came Back and full lyrics.
Find it amazing children who have never been exposed English can learn it from a kiosk with just 1980-90s computer games made available to them. That the kids worked in groups appears to enhance the effect was also pretty interesting. One child would operate with 3 advising and all 4 would test the same, so they learn as much by watching as doing.
Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own…
Noticed this one from PurpleCar. (I first noticed it through the TED Facebook page and meant to watch it, but for whatever reason did not bookmark it. So maybe better to say renoticed.)
Roy setup cameras in his house to capture everything that happens around his son for the purpose of watching the influence of adults on his son learning. How his son improves on “water” over many, many repetitions is very cool. Even cooler is how similar data modeling can show the national Internet…
(via scienceisbeauty)
Trojan Nuclear Plant from the U.S. National Archives
The New York Times article “Nuclear Agency Tells a Concerned Congress That U.S. Industry Remains Safe” had a curious statement from Gregory Jaczko, of the chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in front of Congress.
“U.S. nuclear facilities remain safe,” Mr. Jaczko told two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees, which had originally planned to consider his agency’s budget for the coming fiscal year at the hearing….
Given the fact that Japan is thousands of miles from the United States, it is highly unlikely that Americans would be exposed to radioactive material from direct inhalation of a plume from the Fukushima nuclear complex.
While wind patterns will likely carry the radioactive plume eastward,…
Conceptual photo manipulations are all about depicting an idea, message, or story that a digital artist wants to convey to their viewers. In a conceptual photo manipulation the idea is the…
A friend of mine is the director.
We’re fast approaching the moment when humans and machines merge. Welcome to the Singularity movementShared by Ez
Maybe I will not be too old?
The best part:
So yea, dim future. I’m sure there are people who would argue that lowering the barrier to entry is all that matters, but I’m not one of them. I like hacker culture. I like the idea that people own the things they buy. This world where network providers (over)charge you by the device and by the megabyte at the same time is bad enough without the centralized single-source application market concept making it way worse. As much as I love technology, as much as I’m an early adopter, the future really scares me.
