Global Land Use Change from 8000 BP to -50 BP
Nifty animation of changes in global land use from 8000 BP to -50 BP. I wish it was a little faster and I had to turn off the sound, but still interesting:
More here.
Field Notes: Citations, Coal, Cookstoves, Radiation, Cities, etc.
Top 20 Countries in all research fields (Source)
Lincoln, Neb. Most Satisifed US City (Source)
Propagation of Cascades in Complex Networks: From Supply Chains to Food Webs (Source)
The revival of cookstove research (Source)
Radiation Dosage Chart (Sou...
Reactor Antipodes: Uruguay
From an editor at the New Scientist, where the Fukushima reactor would come out if it went straight thru center of earth and poped out other side. Good to know.
[via Die Welt]
Quadrocopter Ball Jugglers
Astonishing stuff from ETH in Zurich:
New Early-Stage Funding Nomenclature: The Color
I propose a new early-stage funding nomenclature. Talking in terms of millions of dollars is both too specific and too fuzzy to be useful. Even when you know the amount, it's hard to put it in context without knowing everything else being funded right ...
Skier with Helmet Cam Films Avalanche From Inside
This is a little like tossing a camera into a washing machine during spin cycle, but a skier in British Columbia with a helmet cam got caught in an avalanche and accidentally filmed the whole thing. [-]
The Beer->Food->Civilization Connection
Revelatory stuff in a new SciAm piece about the historical origins of beer:
She cited colleagues who have advanced theories that humans first domesticated cereal crops to make beer, not just bread, and that humans evolved to associate ethanol, which i...
Skiing Cunningham Couloir (Aiguille Du Midi)
Fantastic stuff:
Cunningham Couloir from kris thomas on Vimeo.
Viruses: Up and to the Right
From the current issue of Science, the remarkable growth in known viruses in recent years -- almost 8x since 2000. To be clear, the piece isn't implying the actually number of viruses is growing, more that our knowledge of existing viruses is exploding...
Field Notes: Science, Libya, SEO, China, Electronics, etc.
The High Water Mark of American Science (Source)
Rory Stewart · Here we go again (Source)
Is SEO killing the clever headline? - SEO & Social Media Marketing (Source)
Niall Ferguson and George Magnus on BBC talking China (Source)
Residential Energ...
North Shore Riding
A whole series of super mountain biking videos from Vancouver's North Shore here. One follows -- flip it to HD and go full screen. Instant motion sickness.
Pipeline on Fromme, North Vancouver BC from Barry Duncan on Vimeo.
I’m Number 86! I’m Number 86!
Not entirely sure how this happened, but my admittedly eclectic and often meta Twitter feed is number 86 on TIME magazine's list of the best Twitter feeds. You can check the list here, and my entry here.
