Freddy Hagen is an extraordinarily talented Danish photographer.
Recently he returned from a trip to the Middle East and has uploaded some slide shows.
One in particular is a must see, Cairo Megacity. It is a slide show with music and both the music and photographs are utterly beautiful.
His other slide shows are also superb. Don’t miss [...]
The Real Truth That Dare Not Speak Itself
“A balkanization of epistemology is taking place. There is no longer a commonality of understanding. For some people quantum physics provides the answers. Their next door neighbor may look to the channeling of archangels with equal fervor.
It is accompanied by a related phenomenon which is technology, or the [...]
I received my first Gouranga Spam today. Wikipedia explains.
Smart Mobs cover the topic: Part 1 and 2. Now there is footage too. It is horrible to watch.
For the record, I was on this whole topic two months ago in “The pain of others: Abu Graib, Bumfights, Jackass, Happy Slapping…a new media sadism?”.
Too rushed to make individual posts so here are a selection of science articles in digest form:
Achieving ‘adulthood’ is more elusive; transition to adulthood occurring at a later age
oday, adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. In the bridge to adulthood, also referred to as early adulthood, many more young people are caught between the [...]
The site has recently added a Tech section, has some beautiful photos, keeps putting out superb position documents, briefings, primers and news analysis. Here are two recent samples:
Selections from Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi’s speech to Congress and President Bush’s speech recent speech the UN.
and this from the excellent Behaviour section of the site
The size of [...]
…that factoid about only being able to remember between 5 and 7 numbers? Many have heard of the “fact” but few know much about what it is about. Here is your chance to read the ORIGINAL, fascinating paper
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information
by George [...]
Reading Mark Steyn’s article on a Sudanese problem whereby “foreigners were shaking hands with Sudanese men and causing their penises to disappear” brought to mind an article on Genital Retraction Syndrome (Chinese men imagine their penises are retracting), which was posted on the Memetics list today.
All of this might be placed in context by [...]
In the series of TV commercials from the 70’s and 80’s that pitted Coke against Pepsi in a blind taste test, Pepsi was usually the winner. So why…did Coke appeal so strongly to so many people if it didn’t taste any better?
Over several months this past summer, [a neuroscientist called Read Montague] set [...]
Mavens and Supernodes: Meet the hypernetworked nodes who secretly run the world.