a disneyland for creation instead of consumption. in pittsburgh.
Month: September 2010
Garbled German
engrish comes to german. in homeopathic doses, one imagines.
LHC 1PB / s
one of the most data-intensive apps in the world today. from 1 PB / s to a mere 1 GB / s.
20 LY Starmap
as planets are discovered in our neighborhood left and right, time to learn about these guys.
Vacuum Collapse
the “measure problem” of eternal inflation posits that the local void bubble will collapse in 3.7b years.
2013-12-13: good news everyone: there is an upper bound on the probability of earth being utterly destroyed of 1 in 1B per year.
L’esprit de l’escalier
thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late
i wish i had known this word earlier.
Mind Uploading by Gmail
Of course, most content of that account is not information about Giulio’s mental state but the mental states of others, so the process becomes much better the more people allow future Google to do this.
Make The Revolution
Anil Dash argues that the makers have the potential to restart the US out of its hfcs / sports induced couch stupor. the 3d printing stuff i saw is a few years away from going massively mainstream.
Death Ray Buildings
MGM’s Vdara tower in Las Vegas has a polished, curved mirror surface that focuses a “death ray” of heat onto the pool area that’s hot enough to singe your hair and melt your plastic bags.
LOL. if /b/ designed architecture. except, this is real.
Modernist Cuisine
Modernist Cuisine is a 6-volume, 2400-page set that is destined to reinvent cooking. The lavishly illustrated books use 1000s of original images to make the science and technology clear and engaging.
lauded by chang, dufresne, adria.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 