The Post-it wars – in pictures. Thanks to wiffy for this. All offices should have one. Especially in HK where so many offices face so many others.
Lots of horticultural lightning in clouds directly above and dull rumbles while people get on with football practice. Who needs fireworks? Amazing.
What insightful and thought-provoking websites have you across throughout the years? On Reddit. Too much to go through, so click on a couple that take your fancy. I liked Brain Pickings and applaud heavy petal, as name for a gardening … Continue reading
The Psychologist – The shock of the old has a useful revisit of Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments (especially the electric shock one). Things I hadn’t realised: the “subjects” (non-experimenters / non-actors) really agonised about giving what they though were … Continue reading
BBC News – The story of how we got our alphabets. Nice audio summary if a little too rapid for me. I didn’t know about the hieratic-hebrew lineage or the bone cracking Chinese.
Ben Goldacre summarises some very compelling research on antioxidant vitamin pills. They make people who take them more likely to do harmful things to themselves. Don’t take them.
It works. If you do what virag suggests. Summary: Navigate to m.google.com/sync/iphone Log in with the relevant account Choose your device from the list Select the calendars you wish to add Go to settings > mail and calendars and turn … Continue reading
Ways of thinking has Feynman, one of our finest thinkers, thinking about thinking. Brilliant, as are the others. Worth paying the license fee for. Only I can’t from over here. Shame / good business for VPns.
Codecademy looks like a neat way of learning to code. And it starts with JavaScript, which is as good a place to start as any.
Sure of your self?. Hume was a bloody good thinker, and still relevant today. The self is a bundle of perceptions and similarities between these perceptions lead us to call them a self.
