wallace letters online
The ↑Natural History Museum has put online ↑over 4,000 letters written or received by ↑Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). via ↑entry at ↑slashdot
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who is calling?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #57 The public phone is ringing. Who is calling? And a scene from which book is cited thereby? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a … Continue reading →
the coming war on general computation
The copyright war was just the beginning The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war … Continue reading →
why turning around?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #56 What’s happening in this scene? Why are the two kids turning around? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click … Continue reading →
minecraft paternoster elevator
Call me the n00b I am, but I just some days ago began to toy around with ↑Redstone circuits. The first thing I built using them is ↑SethBling’s glorious fence gate elevator shown in his tutorial video above.
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The idea to recreate the ‘↵House on Haunted Hill‘ in ‘↑Minecraft‘ haunts me since months. Well, ↑Kevin Shull already did it back in November 2011, complete with custom texture pack and all: House was created “block for block” as … Continue reading →
who is eddy?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #55 Who is Eddy? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ at the end of the … Continue reading →
einstein on sts
These quotes by ↑Albert Einstein (1879-1955) are a fine follow-up to ↵poincaré on sts: We have thus assigned to pure reason and experience their places in a theoretical system of physics. The structure of the system is the work of … Continue reading →
poincaré on sts
Well, it’s not really ↑Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)—eminent mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science—talking about science and technology studies (STS) proper. Rather he talks about the fundamentals of epistemology, the position of the natural sciences, and their relation to … Continue reading →
nasa johnson style
NASA Johnson Style is a volunteer outreach video project ↑created by the students of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It was created as an educational parody of ↑Psy’s Gangnam Style. The lyrics and scenes in the video have been re-imagined in … Continue reading →