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heliodesic morphisms

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Hey yotta fire I think your ad units might be a little more honest than you'd like them to be.

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Excellent jokes on Russell

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Another funny thing about Russell, he started out trying to provide a firm foundation of mathematics and ended up doing basically the opposite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

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I am pretty sure there has never been an episode of a show with more people playing the same character in the history of television.

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Maybe they'll call it an inverse Eddie Murphy

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It took me a lot longer than it should have to realize this was a bot. Tubmlr, you've got to start stepping up your game.

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Baby’s First OTP Feels: a Tale of Regret

Ahahah oh man an amazing thing that actually happened???  NO Baby girl you are too young for this life and pain.

Her mom thinks it’s hilarious and gave me permission to make a comic out of it? It’s awesome that she has all the Disney movies at her house, and they didn’t know about Miyazaki before! Now they do and watch it with her! I let her watch Totoro weeks after that! She got really into it too!

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instant otaku

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Ponyo loves Sosuke! <3

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Roxana Sorina Buta

I was walking through Union Square the other day, and I noticed that a familiar face was missing from one of the crosswalks.

This is Roxana Sorina Buta. She was killed in a hit and run on May 24, 2012 by a New York City dump truck. Since the incident there has been a shrine on the Northwest corner of Broadway and 14th street intersection, but it was missing when I walked by the other day.

The details of the incident itself are fairly clear as there were many eye witnesses and even camera footage.

The driver is known and has been charged and acquitted on “failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk,” and “failure to exercise due care.” There aren't many other charges that prosecutors would even try because under New York law criminal negligence is prohibitively difficult to prove in court.

This seems like a broken law to me, and I feel like little shrines like the one on Union Square, and hopefully this post, will help fix it.

New York Times

StreetsBlog

The L Magazine

NBC 4 New York

DNAinfo

New York Post (cached, I had trouble with the main link while writing)

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8 Things You Won't Believe Plants Do When No One's Looking

It turns out that plants are capable of some pretty sophisticated, even downright nefarious schemes.

"plant sperm trebuchet"

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This is a video.

I’ve spent all year on this project, on and off to make other little videos and fulfill other obligations. Condensed, it took about three months of 9-5 M-F work. Two months for script, research, story boarding, and composing. Then one month straight in actual production: recording and producing the words and music, filming, editing it all together.

It’s consumed my mind, these past 6 months. Even when working on other projects, I’d still find myself getting up and grabbing the laptop at 4am to add a sentence here, rephrase something there. I’d still find myself waking up with one or another 12-tone lullaby stuck in my head, every morning.

When I first began work, the script grew quickly from a short fun example of 12-tone lullabies (perhaps for my 2nd secret channel) to a bigger project that included more context and rambling. After a couple weeks of script writing, I was doing some research and found out a couple of the works I wanted to use were still copyrighted. I considered tossing the video altogether, and regretted ever starting it. If I’d realized the Schoenberg I wanted was copyrighted (early Schoenberg isn’t), I would not have begun the project. 

Instead, fueled by the anger of my wasted work, I doubled down. I rewrote the script to include the absurdity of copyright law. I write a lot of draft scripts that don’t become videos, but as soon as I wrote in the Bowl and the Laser Bat, I knew this video was a keeper.

I also knew creating it would require every bit of the non-standard combination of skills I happen to have spent a lot of time practicing, which drove me to prove to myself that I really could pull it off. Good motivation. That and the vocal quartet of Mary Had a Little Lamb. I cared the most about that.

There was a magical moment where I’d just finished it, and it was just as I’d imagined it six months before, and I thought: this is good. I toyed with the idea of keeping it all for myself. I looked at the completed video and thought of how to the rest of the world, it existed no more now than it had six months before. And to myself, the video was also pretty much the same as it was when I saw the final version in my head months before. I could delete it entirely and no one would know or care.

Of course, I might as well share. And sharing positively affects my life, and I like my life. Also Mary Had a Little Lamb.

So, there it is. I hope the six months of my life I spent on it were worthwhile.

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This is what passion is about. This is beauty. I'm not even talking about the video.

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Leo DiCaprio character matrix. (via The Huffington Post)

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Apparently your name has to start with an EU to prove there are infinitely many primes.

Number Theory professor (via mathprofessorquotes)

Counterexample: Furstenberg.

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#Man Uhura’s one stong BAMF #she gets smacked by a superhuman #and she’s not even backing down #God I love her so much #Nyota Uhura

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I was just talking to someone today about Uhura in TOS is awesome.

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There are legitimate reasons for secrecy, and specifically for secrecy about communications intelligence. That's why Bradley Mannning and I – both of whom had access to such intelligence with clearances higher than top-secret – chose not to disclose any information with that classification. And it is why Edward Snowden has committed himself to withhold publication of most of what he might have revealed.

Daniel Ellsberg

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Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.

NASA Lunar Science Institute, We Originated in the Belly of a Star (2012)

(Who was it that said that the universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we’re able to imagine?)

Hamlet: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degré, daughter of French wildlife photographers Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, was born in Namibia. During her childhood she befriended many wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant called Abu and a leopard nicknamed J&B. She was embraced by the Bushmen and the Himba tribespeople of the Kalahari, who taught her how to survive on roots and berries, as well as how to speak their language.

Learn more

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//not a daughter of a photographer…a KHALEESI

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Incredible

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How logical fallacies are used to exclude

By way of illustration, suppose you are a guy who identifies as a skeptic. And then suppose you encounter a woman who tells you that because of the insults she has received from guys in the skeptic community, she has decided that the skeptic movement is fundamentally sexist. Here are a dozen ways not to respond:

"You're cherry-picking examples of the worst behaviour. Most of us are nice guys."

"You're concocting a straw man of skepticism. Most of us are nice guys."

"I think you're guilty of confirmation bias here — concentrating on all the examples that fit your description of a skeptic asshole, while ignoring the fact that most of us are nice guys."

"Ad hominem, I'm afraid. You're attacking the people in skepticism, not skepticism itself. By the way, most of us are nice guys."

"Isn't that begging the question, though? Aren't you just saying 'skeptics are bad because skeptics are bad'? If you looked more closely, I think you'd find most of us are nice guys."

"You're confusing correlation and causation here. These people are not assholes because they are skeptics, they're assholes who happen to be skeptics. Most of us are actually nice guys."

"You're drawing conclusions from an insufficient sample size. If you got to know more of us, you'd realise that we were nice guys."

"Non sequitur there. You think that since these guys are assholes, all the rest of us must be. In fact, most of us are nice guys."

"Post hoc ergo propter hoc. No idea what that means, I just thought it would sound clever and impressive. You see -- most of us are actually nice guys!"

"You're being inconsistent here — it's not okay for them to insult you, but it is okay for you to insult us by association? We don't deserve that — most of us are nice guys."

"What we have here is a case of the fallacy of the excluded middle. You're only considering two extremes of skeptic — assholes or feminists — and ignoring the fact that most of us are simply nice guys."

"But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Just because you didn't meet any nice skeptics doesn't mean they don't exist. Most of us are actually nice guys."

Hopefully it should be clear that none of these are acceptable responses. (The fact that most of the logical fallacies are invoked incorrectly is irrelevant — and I've got to say, having compiled this list, I find it striking how easily interchangeable they all are.) This woman has confided her experiences and concerns; in these responses, you are insultingly and condescendingly attempting to diminish them, by portraying her experiences as irrelevant and her concerns as illogical. Respond like this, and you couldn't be more offensive if you said "You're too emotional, my dear: let me correct you with the firm hand of reason." In throwing around accusations of logical fallacy in such a sensitive context, you're being an asshole. And furthermore, you're excluding a voice from your privileged in-group.

From Your Baloney Detection Kit Sucks by Stephen Bond

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Lead Writer, SmackDown, WWE, Stamford, CT The Lead Writer will be responsible for building the weekly WWE flagship television scripts (RAW and SmackDown); helping develop long term story arcs, as well as character backstory for current and developing WWE Superstars and Divas. Responsibilities: ∙Partner with the VP Creative Writing ∙Oversee the weekly creative process of the writers as it relates to script and story arc creation ∙Ensure multiple pitches are presented for each story; pitch concepts to creative decision makers ∙Build final draft of script; ensure all storytelling goals are being met with each episode ∙Ensure product integration is handled in a clever, inclusive manner Qualifications: ∙Minimum of 5+ years of script writing and production experience in television ∙Must have deep working knowledge of WWE storylines and characters ∙A creative thinker with the ability to motivate a small team of writers ∙Deep understanding of pop culture, trends, and topical events, especially as they relate to television programming. Writing reality television, sitcoms or character-based non-fiction is required ∙An experimental risk-taking mindset ∙Must be open to thinking outside of traditional television formats and outside of the traditional linear television model ∙Highly developed written and verbal communications skills. Ability to communicate story lines, including vision and strategy, effectively with senior management, writing and production teams, and external parties ∙Understanding of the WWE’s audience (demographic and psychographic) ∙Flexible schedule to meet the demands and rigor of a weekly television program https://careers-wwecorp.icims.com/jobs/2661/job

The CUNY Graduate Center's Office of Career Planning and Professional Development job opportunities email.

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Please keep on the grass. (via 22 words)

See also:

The Click Design

this isn't happiness™

National Trust