December 2011
12 posts
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer... →
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livin' the dream: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer... →
jeffepstein:
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.
Step 2: Select all domains
Step 3: Click on the “Locking Icon”
Step 4:…
What Sugar Actually Does to Your Brain and Body →
We consume an enormous amount of sugar, whether consciously or not, but it’s a largely misunderstood substance. There are different kinds and different ways your body processes them all. Some consider it poison and others believe it’s the sweetest thing on earth. Here’s a look at the different forms of sugar, the various ways they affect you, and how they play a role in...
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer... →
At this point quite a few internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA) in creative ways. Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it passes, SOPA would makes it really easy for copyright holders to force sites offline that they think are offending, among other things.
While the judiciary vote has been delayed until next year, the...
“Super memory” pill–and possibly an Alzheimer’s... →
Right out of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”:
Scientists have isolated a gene in mice that works to give them “super memories” and reverses the course of several degenerative mental illnesses like Alzheimer’s. And because of the similarity of mice and human brains, a powerful brain pill for humans may now not be far off.
The brains of both mice and humans release...
Finance For Geeks →
a lot of technically-oriented people actually do end up involved in marketing decisions. Most software startups are founded by one or more geeks, often without the presence of experienced people in other areas like marketing. For these people, a little marketing knowledge can go a long way.
Giant Rabbits and Double Rainbows: The 10 Most... →
With the death of Kim Jong-il, the world loses one of the greatest self-aggrandizing fantasists of all time. Here are ten of the craziest Jong-il stories floating out there.
How To Learn About Everything →
Studying to learn about everything
Read and skim journals and textbooks that (at the moment) you only half understand. Include Science and Nature.
Don’t halt, dig a hole, and study a particular subject as if you had to pass a test on it.
Don’t avoid a subject because it seems beyond you — instead, read other half-understandable journals and textbooks to absorb more vocabulary, perspective, and...
Find Waldo With Mathematica
whereIsWaldo[url_] := Module[{waldo, waldo2, waldoMask},
waldo = Import[url];
waldo2 = Image[ImageData[
waldo] /. {{r_, g_, b_} /;
Not[r > .7 && g < .3 && b < .3] :> {0, 0,
0}, {r_, g_, b_} /; (r > .7 && g < .3 && b < .3) :> {1, 1,
1}}];
waldoMask = Closing[waldo2, 4];
ImageCompose[waldo, {waldoMask, .5}]
]
and an...
N Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies →
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced.
Mr Kim, who has led the communist nation since the death of his father in 1994, died on a train while visiting an area outside the capital, the announcement said.
He suffered a stroke in 2008 and was absent from public view for months.
Pyongyang described his son Kim Jong-un as the “great...
November 2011
2 posts
B2FH Paper - Neil deGrasse Tyson →
Thanks to Neil Degrasse Tyson for coming onto reddit and answering this question:
[–]antaresiv 1027 points 15 hours ago
Who are the unknown scientists of the 20th Century that people should know?
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[–]neiltyson[S] 1433 points 15 hours ago
M. Burbidge, G. Burbidge, W. Fowler, & F. Hoyle. Google them.
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Love that he came onto Reddit to answer questions. Read...
TIL - Why Alcohol Makes You Black Out... →
“It is caused by ethanol binding to GABA-A receptors in the brain (and to a lesser degree a number of others), which causes an inhibitory effect in neural activity. Alcohol tends to selectively affect the cortical regions of the brain first, those more tied to higher reasoning and thought, which is why the first few drinks tend to make people “think less” about what they’re...
October 2011
2 posts
Place, Not Race, May Better Explain America's... →
Atlantic: “National statistics routinely show almost shocking health disparities between white and minority populations in the U.S. Nationally, African Americans have higher rates of obesity, heart disease, hypertension and certain cancers, a pattern public health officials have struggled to understand and reverse (and that, in fact, has been a major focus of health initiatives under the...
'My Week With Marilyn': Does Michelle Williams Get... →
Director Simon Curtis approaches the material as a high-end backstage comedy, emphasizing the severe culture clash that erupts when the method-acting, entourage-toting Monroe (Michelle Williams) tries to blend withPrince director/star Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and his old-fashioned, theatrically trained cast, who had no use for that “rubbish.” There’s a frenzy of...
August 2011
1 post
Crime & Punishment Through The Ages →
July 2011
4 posts
Traverse the Document Object Model with JavaScript →
The Document Object Model (DOM) has been defined in different groups of specifications (DOM Level 1, DOM Level 2, and DOM Level 3) by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The DOM represents an HTML or XML document as a tree composed of a hierarchy of nodes with properties and methods. Using client-side languages such as JavaScript, you can add, modify, delete, and attach events to nodes inside...
Why we have brain farts, and what scientists are... →
NEUROSCIENCEShare
Robert T. Gonzalez — I was absent-mindedly shoveling cereal into my mouth when the brainfart struck: my hand decided to reroute the incoming spoon’s flight trajectory into my cheek. As I sat there with milk dripping down my chin, my immediate reaction was to blame my hand. But then I realized that my hand had just been following orders. If anyone was to blame here, it...
The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt →
This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives. It is a book about how to construct a life of virtue, happiness, fulfillment, and meaning.
Can a...
A List Apart: Modern Debugging Tips and Tricks →
With the rise of mobile devices, web development and debugging is more complex than ever. We have more browsers and platforms to support. We have more screen sizes and resolutions. And we’re building in-browser applications instead of the flat, brochure-ware sites of yore.
Luckily, we also have better tools. The JavaScript console is a standard feature of most major browsers. Both JavaScript...
