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Doing some real maths – you’ll get it here in human-readable form – will give you new perspectives on why playing the lottery isn’t all that senseless.
Interesting project: This coming Tuesday, people from all over the world are asked to capture what’s close to them and share their images.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, Arthur Clarke famously said. It has never become clearer to me how right he was than while reading this article about mind-boggling origami research being done at MIT in Cambridge. They went all the way from an old Houdini trick to DNA origami nanorobots capable of killing cancer cells. A must read.
This new radio show allows for a new approach to TED talks. Bundled by topic, NPR airs excepts from various talks and interviews the speakers. Worth your time, one hour at a time.
Wikipedia never ceases to impress me. Take this: a long list of events bound to happen someday. Like, 8 billion years from now, the sun will turn into a “white dwarf”. You better be prepared.
An intense film portrait of Philip Gould, as he is facing death within weeks. The sentence that stuck with me since I’ve seen this piece: “Suddenly, life screams at you”.
It happened three years ago and you’ve read the story multiple times. Yet this article reads like a thriller, still: How brilliant cockpit design made Air France 447 crash into the ocean and killed 228 people.
Great idea: Ask people to share innovations they have made in their daily lives – however small they might be. Definitely have to try the One Breath Wonder.
Time is what you make of it? Apparently, no. Times does strange things to you. It makes you eat three times a day – even if you’re tricked into thinking one day was 48 hours. It leaves your liver over Mid-Atlantic when you’ve landed in Paris. It gives you a chronical social jetlag of two hours. This book review from the New York Magazine is a great read itself.
An interesting essay on the trouble with work, the trouble without. Towards the end, there’s this realisation: “The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves.”
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