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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:17:51 -0400

Coolest Thing I've Learned Today

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:56:49 -0400

The statement, “every maximal ideal in a commutative ring with identity is prime” is equivalent to De Morgan’s Law, ¬(p ∧ q) → ¬p ∨¬q.

This is cool because De Morgan’s Law is dealing wholly with logic while the statement is talking about (more or less) algebra. Weird.

And if I ever get bored with that, there’s always Euler’s identity:

thedailywhat: Video Game Stuff of the Day: Anita Sarkeesian’s...

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:32:18 -0400

thedailywhat:

Video Game Stuff of the Day: Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Part II)

Yesterday, Anita Sarkeesian unveiled the second episode of her Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games series, which analyzes a variety of tropes that are perceived as sexist in video games. And as it was the case with the premiere of the “pilot episode, the feminist author’s second vlog post was immediately challenged by her detractors who managed to temporarily take down the video by abusing the “flag as inappropriate” button before it was restored shortly thereafter.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:17 -0400

rosalarian: Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:15:15 -0400

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

I’ll always remember stoping on the way home from...

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:26:46 -0400

I’ll always remember stoping on the way home from Leadville and we didn’t see your car anywhere. 20 mins later there you were coming up the hill at 10mph and smoke coming from behind you because your car didn’t have enough power to climb up the mountains. RIP Sonka.

"A mosquito was heard to complain That a chemist had poisoned his brain The cause of his sorrow Was..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:30:19 -0400

“A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was paradichloro
Diphenyltrichloroethane”

- Dr. D D Perrin

NeuroLogica Blog » The Continuity Problem

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:35:54 -0400

NeuroLogica Blog » The Continuity Problem:

Fans of science fiction are likely familiar with the continuity problem. You get beamed aboard the Enterprise by the transporter and everything seems to work perfectly. On Earth you are disassembled into your most fundamental particles in order to capture all of the information necessary to then recreate you in your exact state aboard the Enterprise.

The new you aboard the Enterprise is you in every detail, including your stream of consciousness – the thoughts you were having at the moment of beaming. But is it really you? Isn’t it more accurate to say that you were destroyed on Earth and are now dead, and a copy of you was created on board the ship? That is the continuity problem.

freshphotons: Visualizing Size in Biochemical Systems.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:39:56 -0400

freshphotons:

Visualizing Size in Biochemical Systems.

"John and I talked, I left, and in a week or so he was dead. I cried and I cried, went out and got..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:15:06 -0400

“John and I talked, I left, and in a week or so he was dead. I cried and I cried, went out and got drunk. And I said, ‘I’m alive, goddammit! I’m alive!’ And I am alive, and I want to make that real for myself. I do face death, but until I’m dead, I’m alive, dammit!”

- Bobbi Campbell

jbsankara: RIP Chinua Achebe

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:48:13 -0400

jbsankara:

RIP Chinua Achebe

What Coke Contains

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:41:45 -0500

What Coke Contains:

“The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all. Invention and creation is something we are all in together. Modern tool chains are so long and complex that they bind us into one people and one planet. “

freshphotons: Surface Tension.

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:44:52 -0500

freshphotons:

Surface Tension.

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:44:09 -0500

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:37:21 -0500

medicalschool: Norovirus A non-enveloped single-stranded RNA...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:16:18 -0500

medicalschool:

Norovirus

A non-enveloped single-stranded RNA virus, belonging to the family Caliciviridae, which causes acute gastroenteritis in humans. Non-enveloped viruses are one of the most resistant organisms to disinfection.

sigur rós invited film makers and video directors to create an...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:13:17 -0500

sigur rós invited film makers and video directors to create an original video for one of the tracks from their new album valtari. in keeping with the mystery film experiment concept, the brief was completely open for entrants to take inspiration from the world around them to devise and execute a masterpiece.

This is the winning video.

Biologists play reverse Pokémon, trying to avoid putting any one...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:19:19 -0500

Biologists play reverse Pokémon, trying to avoid putting any one team member on the front lines long enough for the experience to cause evolution.

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:53:06 -0500

Memories

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:48:51 -0500

According to current research, every time you access a memory your brain actually rewrites that memory with what you are remembering in that moment. Because of that you can’t help but lose part of that memory each time you think about it. It’s like recording from a copy of a copy of a copy; eventually it gets to the point where it’s unreadable. There are things I can only remember remembering now. Instead of remembering the actual event I can only remember thinking about it at some later point. I know that there’s nothing I can do about it other than writing as much about it as I can but it still kills me every time I think about it. And every time I think about I know that I’m losing a part of it.