by Tom | Oct 19, 2012 | Reading, Science
Brilliant discussion of human athleticism: we evolved for long distance endurance, which is why we can occasionally beat horses in a race and couldn’t even outrun a sheep. I had no idea about the musculoskeletal adaptations in the head to help gaze fixation...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Science, Tech
Data Wrangler for all of the data geeks out there. Really neat pro-active cleaning and management of messy data sets.
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading, Science
As We May Think – Vannevar Bush. Deep thinking on thinking from 1945. Astonishingly prescient in many regards: the impossibility of keeping up with the deluge of information and knowledge created by the human race; the value of hypertext; speech recognition. I...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading, Science
Chinese Study Explains Why Mobile Phone Ban Doesn’t Reduce Traffic Accidents. Brilliant: people who use mobile phones while driving are bad drivers with or without the phone. Obvious, when you think about it, but good to have tested it. New penalty thought:...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Science, View
The Hubble Extreme Deep Field. Look and marvel. All galaxies,some just like our own. And marvel again.
by Tom | Sep 22, 2012 | Science
Martian Rock Formation. is an excellent name for a band as well as beautiful to look at.
