August 2011
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“they’re totes gonna be the trainwreck couple of the 10’s”
– mememolly on Justin and Selena.
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A beautiful, post-Irene sunset. Lower East Side,...
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Pentimento - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
A pentimento (plural pentimenti) is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting. The word derives from the Italian pentirsi, meaning to repent.
Pentimenti may show that a composition originally had an element, for example a head or a hand, in a slightly different place, or...
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Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police... →
In July, Santa Cruz began testing the prediction method for property crimes like car and home burglaries and car thefts. So far, said Zach Friend, the police department’s crime analyst, the program has helped officers pre-empt several crimes and has led to five arrests.
Based on models for predicting aftershocks from earthquakes, it generates projections about which areas and windows of time...
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jtotheizzoe asked: I know you didn't mean to get on the radar or anything, but I saw your asteroid post (and the Fibonacci solar cells post) and was forced to debunk them on my science blog. Just wanted to let you know I wasn't calling your blog out, just gotta try and put facts out there when I see errors!
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stryker asked: If you were asked to teach a web-centric media studies course, what 5-10 books would you make required reading?
juciemouth asked: what do u do ?
picturecandy asked: I'm going to need more movie reviews with that cat at the beginning of every article. That is all...
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Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free... →
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own...
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DC Women Kicking Ass: Why the new Spider-Man... →
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The moment when my passion for comics began is as clear to me now many, many years later as it was then. It was the moment when I saw Batgirl on the TV screen. As a small child I loved Batman, but I couldn’t be Batman because I was a girl. But then there was this girl, woman, doing the things that Batman could do. And I soon found she was not just on television but in comic...
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Pentagon wants to build an Internet meme tracker. →
As social media play increasingly large roles in fomenting unrest in countries like Egypt and Iran, the military wants systems to be able to detect and track the spread of ideas both quickly and on a broad scale. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting innovative proposals to help build what would be, at its most basic level, an Internet meme tracker.
In its 37-page...
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Middle aged doctors mistake street slang for... →
From MindHacks:
I’ve just been directed to a wonderful 2007 case study from the British Medical Journal that reports how middle aged doctors can mistake street slang for symptoms of schizophrenia.
Detailed and repeated assessment of [the patient’s] mental state found a normal affect, no delusions, hallucinations, or catatonia, and no cognitive dysfunction. His speech, however, was...
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WatchGeoffrey West’s TED talk on the universality of scale in cities, companies, and biology
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There were three talks I saw at TED that I can’t quite shake out of my brain. Geoffrey West’s is now online, and I can’t overstate how interesting and important I find his work. To be clear, if you haven’t watched it, take 18 minutes and watch it now.
There was an article about the...
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