November 2011
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September 2011
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And Tango Makes Three →
And Tango Makes Three is a 2005 children’s book written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole. The book is based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap Penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo. The book follows the six years of their life where they formed a couple and were given an egg to raise.
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“It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the...”
– Barbara Ehrelich (Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America)
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Barely Feral — a porn site by cats for cats →
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WebGL water simulation →
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Quietism →
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“Nymodigheten dataterminaler”, SVT-inslag från 1978
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August 2011
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At 50°C, it was so hot in Australia that koalas...
One Koala entered someone’s house, looking for water and shade, and here’s what happened when the owner gave him something to drink.
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So, who is this man? He’s the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He’s a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly old-fashioned liberal teachings from the hippies and folk music stars of the 60s. And he believes in science, in things that science can demonstrate like climate change and pi having a...
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“sempiternity, existence within time but infinitely into the future; as opposed...”
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Watch“Automatic Differentiation” by Conal Elliott
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“Some male-to-female transgender people have complained that in corporate...”
– Eliza Gray, reporter at The New Republic
July 2011
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May 2011
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“Appointment to the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern...”
– “Chiltern Hundreds” (Wikipedia article)
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WatchBen Goertzel: “AI Against Aging” (at Singularity Summit 10)
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WatchJürgen Schmidhuber: “Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity” (at Singularity Summit 09) Very good talk on modern breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence, proposing that intelligence = compression.
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WatchJames Randi: Is There Such a Thing as Scientific Consensus?
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WatchLance Becker: Modifying the Boundary between Life and Death (at the Singularity Summit 10)
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“The corporate veil cannot be lifted merely because justice requires it.”
– Sir Robert Andrew Morritt, Chancellor of the U.K. High Court of Justice
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April 2011
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“In an open society it is not enough to be a democrat; one must be a liberal...”
– George Soros, “The Capitalist Threat”
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“In the ultimate analysis a belief in the open society is a matter of choice, not...”
– George Soros, “The Capitalist Threat”
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“One could argue that the open society is the best form of social organization...”
– George Soros, “The Capitalist Threat”
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“We must promote a belief in our own fallibility to the status that we normally...”
– George Soros, “The Capitalist Threat”
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“As things stand, it does not take very much imagination to realize that the...”
– George Soros, “The Capitalist Threat”
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