a sense of tech

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein

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PITTORE DELL’ITALIA CENTRALE Veduta di una Città ideale Tempera su tavola. Baltimora, Walters Art Museum © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimora 

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EPIPHANY: technological singularity

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A massive graph that visualizes the history of (mostly Western) philosophy through philosophers.

I’m mostly interested in this graph because (in essence) it mined Wikipedia to produce the graph. Intriguing. (via io9)

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Sorry the country is so fucked up that you need to bother voting Via someecards

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From a distance, Yang Yongliang’s sculpture looks like a large, upside down cigarette. But a close inspection shows that the ashen tip depicts a city.

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 Endangered languages

 The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages under threat.

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60 Seconds to Better Communications

from Bryce Christiansen 

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 ROBERT LANZA: Is Death An Illusion? Evidence Suggests Death Isn’t the End

After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” 

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Instaglasses concept - life through vintage filters

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Germania - Grecia, la sfida tra i filosofi

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Living PlanIT - Building efficient urban-scale environments

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Boys and Girls

by Judy Kaufmann 

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Internet domain names

.combat A messy and expensive row is brewing over new suffixes for internet addresses

theeconomist: 

IT IS the online equivalent of the land-grabs of 19th-century America. Earlier this year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the outfit in charge of addresses in cyberspace, allowed applications for new suffixes. That would allow new domains, such as .microsoft, .paris and .music, to join the 22 existing handles, such as .com and .info. 

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Tomorrow’s cover today: as robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them.

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Daily chart: disease. You are more likely to be killed by a non-communicable disease, like cancer or heart disease, than anything else. In 2008 they accounted for 63% of the 56m deaths worldwide.