January 2011
11 posts
Doctoral Degrees: The Disposable Academic - The... →
It’s worth noting that the article puts a lot of emphasis on time, and money in the form of salary. There’s also no mention of the less tangible aspects of a job, including prestige, relevance, work environment, and so on.
Sourced from a facebook page.
What the Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? →
Architects Find Their Dream Client, in China →
“The U.S. political establishment is mostly attorneys and other people who are involved with political science,” he says. “In China, the highest-ranking officials tend to be engineers. They see a problem, they allocate money and effort toward a solution.”
Hazards of the Couch →
So, yeah… meee tooo.
Luckily there’s a headboard on my desk so I can move my computer to eye level as I did this afternoon. Seems similar things have been reported before, e.g. here and here.
asset:
Spending more than four hours a day in front of a screen drastically increases your risk of dying early, regardless of how much exercise you get.
(oh shit i’m fucked)
Is Law School a Losing Game? →
Really, Georgetown? Creating temp jobs for your own students to increase the “employment” rate is a pretty shameless act.
asset:
“Law school is a pie-eating contest where the first prize is more pie.”
Aubrey de Grey says we can avoid aging →
Just watched the video of the 2009 talk.
Before watching, I was unaware of the result about calorie restriction and lifespan in mice, but I had once happened across this Wikipedia article for CALERIE, a trial study of a 25% calorie restriction in humans. The idea is very interesting, but it seems like diet is a huge confounding variable here. In practical application, there’s also the...
Rock, paper, lizard →
It’s pretty cool that this pattern actually can emerge so distinctly in nature…
Live Forever or Have Fun Trying →
David Chalmers is pretty interesting…. Also, Prof. Farah’s conclusion about performance enhancing drugs seems pretty crazy to me.
Sebastian Seung also does research related to the topic; here’s a TED talk he gave, which incidentally describes the technique currently used for mapping neural connections in a brain.
asset:
article on the state of the art of neuroengineering -...
List of Common Misconceptions - Wikipedia →
Thanks to xkcd (#843) which, by the way, doesn’t suck.
Here are two of the most interesting items:
Humans have more than five senses. Although definitions vary, the actual number ranges from 9 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain...
“When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you...”
– from Randy Pausch (via asset)
The most important statement from the lecture.