by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Reading
What insightful and thought-provoking websites have you across throughout the years? On Reddit. Too much to go through, so click on a couple that take your fancy. I liked Brain Pickings and applaud heavy petal, as name for a gardening site.
by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Reading, Science
The Psychologist – The shock of the old has a useful revisit of Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments (especially the electric shock one). Things I hadn’t realised: the “subjects” (non-experimenters / non-actors) really agonised...
by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Reading
BBC News – The story of how we got our alphabets. Nice audio summary if a little too rapid for me. I didn’t know about the hieratic-hebrew lineage or the bone cracking Chinese.
by Tom | Aug 27, 2011 | Reading
Ben Goldacre summarises some very compelling research on antioxidant vitamin pills. They make people who take them more likely to do harmful things to themselves. Don’t take them.
by Tom | Aug 26, 2011 | Tech
It works. If you do what virag suggests. Summary: Navigate to m.google.com/sync/iphone Log in with the relevant account Choose your device from the list Select the calendars you wish to add Go to settings > mail and calendars and turn off calendars for the account you...
by Tom | Aug 26, 2011 | View
Ways of thinking has Feynman, one of our finest thinkers, thinking about thinking. Brilliant, as are the others. Worth paying the license fee for. Only I can’t from over here. Shame / good business for VPns.
by Tom | Aug 26, 2011 | Tech
Codecademy looks like a neat way of learning to code. And it starts with JavaScript, which is as good a place to start as any.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Reading
Sure of your self?. Hume was a bloody good thinker, and still relevant today. The self is a bundle of perceptions and similarities between these perceptions lead us to call them a self.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Magnetic pots create urban wall garden. Great idea. Could work well in HK too.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Wanted: Good Jobs, Made in America is a great summary of the “outsourcing isn’t a problem because only a tiny bit of the consumer purchase price goes to China” argument. Read on.
