Education
Religion - as Natural as Cows?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Yet another good TED video about the “design” of modern religions as a case for studying all religions through a scientific lens:
Valentines Day in India
Saturday, February 16th, 2008My mom is, aside from an exceptional gift giver, a lover of history and culture. So this Valentine’s Day I gave my mom a different sort of gift. I had someone in India call her - from India - to give her a history lesson on the history of Valentines Day in India and it’s […]
Phantome PMS?
Friday, November 16th, 2007I’m starting to agree with Scott Adams that we are all moist robots.
Human Computation
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007WARNING: The following post is very, very nerdy.
Luis von Ahn, inspired by the clever pornographers that defeated captchas, has come up with some amazingly simple and effective ways to get humans to analyze data that computers can’t… for free.
Next time you feel like playing Solitaire, why not play one of Luis von Ahn’s games?
Ideas to die for
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Dan Dennett talks about toxic memes and their virus-like ability to wipe out entire cultures. Dennett’s assertion that memes are, in some cases (communism, capitalism, Islam, Catholicism, and many more), essentially deadly parasites is an interesting perspective.
As interesting as Dennett’s ideas are, I tend to take a more simplistic view. While memes may be wiping […]
Hell in a handbasket
Friday, June 1st, 2007Thank you Steve
Monday, May 7th, 2007Wikiversity
Friday, January 19th, 2007Everyone should check out Wikiversity. Wikiversity is a wiki dedicated to providing free learning materials for all age groups. Currently they have learning projects for everything from agriculture to zoology.
Today I browsed around the School of Business and happened upon an Introduction to Statistics that I found very interesting. I also browsed around in Financial […]