Guest Thinkers — December 12, 2010

Excellent Video Discription of Web 2.0

Check this out — great summary of web 2.0, wonderful message. Perhaps a new Web 2.0 slogan? “The Machine is Us/ing us”

This is why I love video. If Michael Wesch said this or wrote this it would be mildly interesting and I’d be happy to have read it. I might call it to the attention of a friend or someone who shares my interest in the Internet and all the new things happening in our culture.

However because it’s a video I share it with a lot of people. This affects me more deeply because it actively engages many different senses, I’m focusing more energy into digesting it and I feel more involved then just reading text.

The real miracle for me is that it is a reproducible awesome experience. This is better then seeing Wesch deliver this message live even, because I know this video isn’t going to have an “off” night. I can share this with my friends, family, colleagues, and blog readers because I KNOW they are going to get an amazing delivery.

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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7 min

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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