In envisioning how machines will replace humans, Kevin Kelly breaks down our relationship with robots into four categories.
Complement with Ellen Ulman’s Close to the Machine.
How a molecular biologist proposes! So cute.
DNA amplified to different sized fragments via the polymerase chain reaction, and then seperated by size on a gel. This isn’t that hard actually. I just got a Valentine’s Day idea for my lady :) Time to design some romantic DNA.
I think more people should get creative with their science, no?
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EDIT: The guy who made this went on Reddit on explained how he did it! Check it out.
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You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.Chuck Palahniuk (via loveyourchaos)
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.Roald Dahl (via larmoyante)
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October 2012 Highlights from the Underground New York Public Library
1. “The Savage Detectives,” by Roberto Bolaño 2. “Wolf Hall,” by Hilary Mantel 3. “The Talmud” 4. “Utopia,” by Thomas More 5. “How to Be Black,” by Baratunde Thurston 6. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” by Ken Kesey 7. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” by J.K. Rowling 8. “Notes from the Underground,” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9. “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” by Harriet Jacobs 10. “Choke,” by Chuck Palahniuk
I wish a safe, speedy, and spirited recovery for my beloved NYC! Limited subway service is returning tomorrow, thanks to the amazing efforts of the MTA. Here is the MTA flickr feed for a look at what they are dealing with post hurricane Sandy.
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…people can be very intuitive about one thing (say, medical practice, or chess playing) and just as clueless as the average person about pretty much everything else. Moreover, intuitions get better with practice — especially with a lot of practice — because at bottom intuition is about the brain’s ability to pick up on certain recurring patterns; the more we are exposed to a particular domain of activity the more familiar we become with the relevant patterns (medical charts, positions of chess pieces), and the more and faster our brains generate heuristic solutions to the problem we happen to be facing within that domain
Massimo Pigliucci, on why there’s no such thing as total, natural “intuition”, and how we can actually train ourselves to be better … intuiters?
Is that a word?
Check out more: The Science of What We Call “Intuition” from Brain Pickings
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From my close observation of writers… they fall in to two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.Iain Duncan Smith (via fuckyeahthebetterlife)
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Done done done!!!
I will have fond memories of this one, though.
Ah, fractional distillation; the lego play-set of organic chemistry
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.Maya Angelou (via misswallflower)
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I want this.
I really, really want this. My home is going to be decked out in chem decor.
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John Baldessari, Beethoven’s Trumpet, Opus 133
The work is silent until the viewer speaks into the trumpet at which point sections from Beethoven’s last six string quartets start to play
Graduate student in Philly. I love to learn about God, people, the brain, and the world, and I refuse to be easily impressionable. God has great plans for me. Jeremiah 29:11
Born in Quezon City, Philippines on 8/5/89
Happily in love since 10/14/05
Born in Quezon City, Philippines on 8/5/89
Happily in love since 10/14/05
