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tannertan36
Not today Justin
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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@sreeyesh
The question of 3-D is a very straightforward one. I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.
Christopher Nolan
Um, Chetan, you don't really require any qualifications to do that.
Michelangelo's God
jalsajilpa:
I saw the Michelangelo God meme (http://i.imgur.com/CzqyR.jpg) and thought there might be some Indianization potential
danielholter:
Radiolab Presents Symmetry (by Radi0Lab)
The universe, life, and everything is beautiful.
Watch this.
Delhi living up to its reputation.
(via @angadc)
This is the power of Plate tectonics. The power of "God" is limited to appearing on toast.
YouTube comment, with reference to this video.
cracked:
It’s official!
I hope I can stay alive for this.
nastik:
Red-flags of quackery and pseudoscience.
Use this as an self-help manual. For your own good.
The lesson we’ve learned from climategate is simple. It’s the same lesson taught by death panels, socialist government takeover, Sharia law, and Obama’s birth certificate. To understand it we must turn to agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt. (Hat tip to an excellent recent post on this by John Quiggen.)
Beck, Palin, and the rest of Fox News and talk radio operate on the pretense that they are giving consumers access to a hidden “universe of reality,” to use Limbaugh’s term. It’s a reality being actively obscured the “lamestream media,” academics, scientists, and government officials. Affirming the tenets of that secret reality has become an act of tribal reinforcement, the equivalent of a secret handshake.
The modern right has created a closed epistemic loop containing millions of people. Within that loop, the implausibility or extremity of a claim itself counts as evidence. The more liberal elites reject it, the more it entrenches itself. Standards of evidence have nothing to do with it.
The notion that there is a global conspiracy by professional scientists to falsify results in order to get more research money is, to borrow Quiggen’s words about birtherism, “a shibboleth, that is, an affirmation that marks the speaker as a member of their community or tribe.” Once you have accepted that shibboleth, anything offered to you as evidence of its truth, no matter how ludicrous, will serve as affirmation. (Even a few context-free lines cherry-picked from thousands of private emails.)
I find a striking similarity of the parts in bold (emphasis mine) with the right wing pro-Hindutva people in India actively rejecting every statement or theory made against their beliefs. The closed epistemic loop here adamantly cling on to such notions like India being a cultural and technological superpower in the ancient past (even many of the highly educated believe that we had nukes and telecommunications technology in the past--all god-made, BTW), or the West stealing great secrets, or the indigenousness of the people of ancient India, or thinking that Adam's Bridge was actually made by mythical monkeys with floating rocks.
And all this is done with a single goal: to emphasize the greatness of their religion and nationality.
cracked:
Sure, the iPad 2 is ultra thin, but it only seems to do one thing now…
First I was sad. Then I was like WTF? Then I was like FUCK YEAH! And then I lol’d. Hard.
Kiwi!
(via preshit)
fuckyeahengineers:
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced Wednesday that they have been able to confirm a new high-efficiency solar cell design that utilizes nearly the entire solar spectrum.
Translation: They figured out a way to make solar panels generate electricity in the dark.
CleanTechnica
Could this be the start of a revolution in power?
cracked:
Never Say Never
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I could watch this for hours.
You gotta have priorities. Can't stress enough about priorities.
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates, 400 BC.
Seems like more of a human trait than a quality of youth at any particular time. Fuck you, Socrates.
(via goobimama)
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The next time someone tells me people were well mannered in the old times, I'm gonna quote Socrates and show them the finger.
The human body as an industrial unit. Fantastic animation!
