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 | View
Two fabulous bits of marching bands. First at rehearsal: seriously tight. Second an extraordinary half-time display with all of your favourite video game characters.
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 | Personal, Reading
Some intriguing thoughts on causing offence and being offended. Ultra-orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with women they are not married to are being offered “modesty glasses” which blur their view in such a way that they do not fall over and yet they...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading
it is forbidden for him to say that the UCI, McQuaid and Verbruggen “have concealed cases of doping, received money for doing so, have accepted money from Lance Armstrong to conceal a doping case, have protected certain racing cyclists, concealed cases of doping,...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | View
Obama and Romney wife hair swap. Best response to the debates so far, for me.
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Hong Kong / China
China as civilisation-state as opposed to the nation-state we default to imagining. Lots in there to help understand why and how the Chinese view their history through a different perspective to the West. BBC News – A Point Of View: Making sense of...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | IT, Reading
Patterns for Research in Machine Learning is a slightly formal title for some excellent hints on how to code and think about coding in pretty well any language you chose.
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading
Uncomfortable but required reading. Jerry Sandusky and the Mind of a Pedophile.
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
People who download music for free purchase more music than people who don’t download music for free, say a survey in where do Music Collections Come From? Sounds right to me, and looks right for books as well. It seems that all those people reading Kindles or...
