Paul Higgins: For the record I think that TED has made a reasonable and open response but this is also an interesting example of the openness and power of the internet and social media
As of yesterday afternoon, the Talk That “TED Won’t Show You” had about 300 views on YouTube. Today it is up to more than 164,000–such is the power of the real new media: passionate viewers who have no trouble taking ownership of…
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emergentfutures reblogged futuramb:
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Black Holes and the Sonic Song of the Universeby Trent Gilliss, senior editor
As Gordon Hempton points out, silence isn’t necessarily an absence of sound but a presence all its own. And, in much the same way, physicist Janna Levin says, space isn’t necessarily quiet either. Working at her lab at Columbia University, she projects that the universe creates an aural footprint that “will be music to our ears because it will be the quiet echo of that moment of our creation of our observable universe.” If we can only pick it up…
In this presentation at TED 2011, she plays her projections of the sounds the universe makes — black holes merging and falling into one another, the “white noise of the Big Bang. It’ll make you wonder about the biggest questions at the core of what it means to be a sentient being in this universe or the next.
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evangotlib reblogged peachfuzz:
Do the Republicans even know that women can vote now?
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14-billion-years-later reblogged jtotheizzoe:
The Physics of The Hulk’s Jump ( … and other Hulk Goodies)
Rhett Allain is at it again, analyzing the physics (or lack there of) of your favorite pop culture phenomena. Here he is with some Hulk physics, to celebrate the opening of The Avengers.
For instance, to gain the mass necessary for Bruce Banner to become The Hulk, he would have to absorb all the solar energy hitting Earth for a full two and a half minutes!!!
(via Wired Science)
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This is such a wonderful app! I almost started to cry because I was so happy! #women #btv #fightthemedia
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1957-1960 | BMW Isetta 300 | Factory Built Pick-Up
It’s a smallest pick-up that i’ve ever seen))
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iaminapickle reblogged girlinlondon:
- Socialism: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour.
- Communism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.
- Fascism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.
- Nazism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.
- Bureaucratism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..
- Traditional Capitalism: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
- An American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow dropped dead.
- A French Corporation: You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
- Japanese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.
- An Italian Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
- A Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
- Chinese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
- An Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......
- Counter Culture: 'Wow, dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!'
- Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
- Fatalist: You have 2 doomed cows...
- A West-Country Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
- A Brazilian Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.
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One more bite to outgrow by Jeff Peters
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crookedindifference reblogged kqedscience:
Gerd Ludwig’s “Long Shadow of Chernobyl” project
Internationally-renowned photojournalist Gerd Ludwig has spent years documenting the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In 1986, errors at the plant in Ukraine led to an explosion that ultimately caused over a quarter of a million people to permanently evacuate their homes to escape the radiation and radioactive fallout. Over the course of several trips to the site and the region for National Geographic Magazine in 1993, 2005, and 2011, Ludwig has amassed a documentary record of a people and a place irreparably altered by a tragic accident. His 2011 trip was partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign. Now Ludwig has released an iPad app with over 150 photographs, video, and interactive panoramas.
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Seth - Santiago, Chile
