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tonyd recommended this 2 years ago
Beautiful rendered animations of the inner workings of cells down to the atomic level.
peter recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago
One of the best superconductor demos I’ve ever seen! It’s showing off a “quantum trapping” technique that allows the superconductor to lock into a position.
The editing and music make me laugh—especially as @hrldcpr pointed out to me that the super conductor looks like a steam engine with nitrogen gases shooting out of it.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 5 months ago
I read this in an evening.The looping, reconnecting cycle of time and memory is absolutely great. It just won the Booker prize.The big question is not who Tony was, but who Adrian is.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 5 months ago
If you want to know something actually worthwhile about the future, how we should think about it, and what innovation IS apart from a populist, over-said word - watch this. Merrill uses no notes and is utterly absorbing.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 5 months ago
Brilliant and hilarious follow-up on his book: 1hr 15 minutes which, when you go to bed, you will think of as the one time during your day when you really, genuinely, learnt something.
JoelRGoldman recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
wow, and it's made out of LEGO!
jon recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
Interesting little video from the NYTimes about an ancient chess set on display at a museum. Discusses some interesting facts about how the game was changed over time.
gearhead364 recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago
Interesting video on the weapons of the future
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
brilliantly made - very inspiring and very good, and free. fast, very well integrated with the internet, and has massive scope for the future. Easy to use well, and full of ideas that are only beginning to flower - unlike any propriety OS.
hrldcpr recommended this 2 years ago
this movie had some quality mess with your head time travel implications. tricky and intense.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
steeped in history and the passage of time and the gradual, hard power of the Snopes family. Incredible - incredible - book.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
phenomenal game, fundamentally as advanced as any more modern strategy games and a lot more fun. Very well put together, and immersing when you add the expansion.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
historically fascinating. careful insight into the mind of the 'last great explorer', Wilfred Thesiger. His years among the Marsh Arabs - and watching their culture gradually crumble to globalisation - makes it utterly worth reading.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
the juxtaposition - and that it works so well - is amazing and interesting.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
ingenious game, really well put together: music, story, colours, and challenge.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
'An ambiguous book', so individual but so colourful: you can smell the heather and feel the mist and hear the frost crunch. It is a beautiful novel about the best and worst of our humanity.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
Does language determine what and how we think? if someone speaks a fundamentally different language like Chinese, does that mean they think differently? Pinker is unbelievably alert to things we barely think about but help make us who we are socially, personally, and culturally.
jslavendar recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
Brilliantly unique. Golding is at his best here. Who are you? who cares? Sammy Mountjoy is a self-interested painter who cannot remember where he lost his freedom - that thing which is distinctive as 'the taste of potatoes'.