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Man on the Moon, Future and Past
via The Big Picture by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Shared by hikikomori As always, click through for more mind-blowing photos.With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by five nations, with even more coming soon. NASA's plans to return humans to the Moon by 2020 are moving steadily ahead, with some concrete prototypes and initial...
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A great ad about Dutch simplicity
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on June 16, 2008
Thanks Nicolas.
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Video Lectures for the Science Mind
via Open Culture by Dan Colman on May 06, 2008
We talk a good deal here about free university courses and lectures, and mostly we end up talking about the humanities. But here’s a good excuse to talk about the sciences, and particularly about computer science. A project started in Slovenia, Videolectures.net provides “free and open access of high quality video lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most...
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Podcasts Can Now Teach You Almost Any Language
via Open Culture by Dan Colman on May 10, 2008
We have recently spent some time updating our Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection. And, along the way, one thing became clear. During the past six months, the number of podcasts offering free lessons in foreign languages has greatly increased, and the lessons now extend far beyond the traditional languages that you’d expect. In addition to Spanish, French, German and Italian, you can now...
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Stanford Online Writing Courses
via Open Culture by Dan Colman on May 20, 2008
A quick fyi: Yesterday, Stanford Continuing Studies opened up registration for its summer lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with the Stanford Creative Writing Program (one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance to refine their craft with gifted writing...
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Prehistoric Calculus: Discovering Pi
via BetterExplained by Kalid on May 29, 2008
Pi is mysterious. Sure, you “know” it’s 3.14159 because you read it in some book. But what if you had no textbooks, no computers, and no calculus (egads!) — just your brain and a piece of paper. Could you find pi?Archimedes found pi to 99.9% accuracy 2000 years ago — without decimal points or even the number zero! Even better, he devised techniques that became the foundations of...
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George Orwell’s 1984: Download Free Audio Book Version
via Open Culture by Dan Colman on June 02, 2008
Here’s a quick one while I am away on some unexpected business…Over at the Internet Archive, you can find George Orwell’s classic, 1984, available as a free audio book. As you’ll see, the recording is professionally done. You can download the full zip file here. Or alternatively you can get the individual mp3 files, or stream them, from this page. On a more permanent basis, you can find...
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Learn the Art of Photography: The Nikon Way
via Open Culture by Dan Colman on June 04, 2008
The advent of digital cameras has changed photography as we know it. It has dramatically lowered the cost of photography, and we’re now snapping more photos than ever before. But we’re not necessarily taking better pictures.This is where Nikon steps in. Their cameras make casual photographers immensely better than they actually are. (Trust me, I know.) And Nikon has now set up a free Digital...
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Why we skip Photoshop
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on June 02, 2008
When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.Here are a few reasons why we skip photoshop:You can’t click a Photoshop mockup. This is probably the number one reason we skip static mockups. They aren’t real. Paper isn’t real either, but paper doesn’t have that expectation. a Photoshop mockup is on your screen. If it’s...
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Quarks and Creation (May 29, 2008)
via APM: Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the universe might make space for prayer.
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