Sapere Aude
Month: September 2015
this is amazing work, and very much a beginning:
the tree depicts the relationships among living things as they diverged from one another over time, tracing back to the beginning of life on Earth more than 3.5B years ago. 10Ks of smaller trees have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life — some containing upwards of 100k species — but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life.
is another nice one.
How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao
the poorest kids get the smallest share of their daily energy intake from Big Macs, Whoppers, Chicken McNuggets, and french fries.
doing real experimentation about web platform features by tying these to developer keys with surveys etc. i hope this works, the web could really use a more mature iteration process.
Millions of Swifties and KatyCats—as well as Beliebers, Barbz, and Selenators, and the Rihanna Navy—would be stunned by the revelation that a handful of people, a crazily high % of them middle-aged Scandinavian men, write most of America’s pop hits
The Campaign rejects the argument that the development of sex robots could actually improve the plight of sex workers around the globe, or that there are plenty of lonely people—of any gender—interested in a robot companion for a variety of reasons. Richardson is also against Amnesty International’s call to decriminalize human sex work. While I do not want to dismiss the ethicists’ concerns or claims entirely—sex bots should be a topic for spirited debate—it seems to me that the Campaign should be focusing more on helping to establish reasonable guidelines moving forward, rather than an outright ban. That ban isn’t going to happen, nor should it. Prohibition is seldom a fix.
Have you ever exited the subway and felt completely lost? Project NYC Subway can visualize some of Manhattan’s most complex subway stations, blueprint style.
The succession of English kings and queens explained, from William the Conquerer in 1066 to little Prince George, perhaps, in 2067-ish.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 