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Getting to know the cinta senese on its home turf | Eat This Podcast
In the town hall of Siena is a series of glorious frescoes that depict The Allegory of Good and Bad Government. In one of them is a pig, long snouted …
Big HistoryJam Tomorrow | Eat This Podcast
What is jam? “A preserve made from whole fruit boiled to a pulp with sugar.” Lots of opportunities to quibble with that, most especially, if you’re …
High Fructose Corn SyrupMastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable by Ethan Zuckerman
Most distributed publishing tools are simply too complex for most users to adopt. Mastodon may have overcome that problem, borrowing design ideas …
Social MediaEclipse Photos August 21, 2017
Author: Chris Aldrich<p>I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal …
AstronomySFI and ASU to offer online M.S. in Complexity | Complexity Explorer
SFI and Arizona State University soon will offer the world’s first comprehensive online master’s degree in complexity science. It will be the …
Education👓 Link: The futility of science communication conferences by John Hawks
Rich Borschelt is the communication director for science at the Department of Energy, and recently attended a science communication workshop. He …
SciencePost Kinds Plugin for WordPress
Post Types<p>Within the broader social media world there are a huge variety of types of posts. These range from common articles to status updates to …
Web Design🔖 Elementary Algebraic Geometry by Klaus Hulek
This is a genuine introduction to algebraic geometry. The author makes no assumption that readers know more than can be expected of a good …
Mathematics🔖 Universal Sign-In Button
The Universal Sign-In Button is a customisable bookmarklet that will auto-fill a sign-in form on the page you are currently visiting and submit it …
iOS👓 Why I Left Academia: Part III, The Aftermath by Allison Harbin, Ph.D.
The next few days following my defense, or to be honest, the next few weeks, still feel emotionally distant, almost as if it happened to someone …
Education🎧 This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition, July 22nd – 28th, 2017 | Marty McGuire
Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for July 22nd - 28th, 2017. This week features a brief interview with Johannes Ernst recorded at IndieWeb …
Podcasting👓 Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value | Nature
One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.<p>Author: Chris Aldrich<p>I'm a biomedical …
Statistics📺 Linguist and Cognitive Scientist George Lakoff on Tavis Smiley (PBS)
The esteemed academic discusses Trump supporters who stay faithful to him even when he works against their material best interests and well-being.<p>Dr. …
Keith OlbermannFirst Support for a Physics Theory of Life
Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how …
PhysicsAn Introduction to the IndieWeb
Whether you're starting a blog, building your personal brand, posting a resume, promoting a hobby, writing a personal journal, creating an online …
ProgrammingIntroduction to Algebraic Geometry | UCLA Extension in Fall 2017
Algebraic geometry is the study, using algebraic tools, of geometric objects defined as the solution sets to systems of polynomial equations in …
MathematicsA Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society | Hack Education
The University of Mary Washington’s initiative, “Domain of One’s Own,” is phrased thusly as a nod to Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own,” in …
Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry
14-16 May 2018; Auditorium Enric Casassas, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain<p>One of the most frequently used scientific …
PhysicsSubjectivity and Correlation in Randomized Strategies by Robert J. Aumann
(.pdf download) Subjectivity and correlation, though formally related, are conceptually distinct and independent issues. We start by discussing …
Mathematics👓 In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is often impossible to reach efficiently.<p>There’s a …
👓 Why Are Coding Bootcamps Going Out of Business? | Hack Education
Within the past week, two well-known and well-established coding bootcamps have announced they’ll be closing their doors: Dev Bootcamp, owned by …
I'd love to have a Johns Hopkins hat just like this with "Math" instead of "Lacrosse". Surely the department has them made occasionally?
Cotton twill hat features a full color embroidered Johns Hopkins lacrosse design showcasing our shielded blue jay. Unstructured low profile fit. Just …
👓 See Just How Much Of A City's Land Is Used For Parking Spaces
article<p>http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/20/see-just-how-much-of-a-citys-land-is-used-for-parking-spaces/<p>Chris Aldrich | BoffoSocko<p>A great piece on urban …
👓 When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code | NPR
School administrators' and, in general, other peoples', inability to be inclusive, understanding, and generally human really bothers me. It's these …
WPCampus 2017 Conference
A two-day event filled with sessions, networking, and social events covering a variety of topics, all dedicated to the confluence of WordPress in …
Webmention demo for WordPress meetup
Author: Chris Aldrich<p>I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal …
An Information Theory Playlist on Spotify
In honor of tomorrow’s release of Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman’s book <i>A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age</i>, I’ve created an …
👓 Creating an archive of my online writing, from 2002-2017 | Richard MacManus
I’ve just spent an inordinate amount of time creating an archive of all my past online writing work, in particular of the tech blog I founded …
Ivanka Inc. | Washington Post
The first daughter talks about improving the lives of working women. Her father urges companies to “buy American.” But her fashion line’s practices …