Ron Rivest on the History Growth of Cryptography
Ron Rivest on the history and growth of cryptography: "Maybe large prime numbers have a role to play in our democracy..."
Field Notes: Oil, Restaurants, Biotech, Clouds, TED, etc.
Trophies for the biggest biotech venture financings? (Source)
The worst restaurant in the world (Source)
Saudi Arabia's `Day of Rage' Lures Record Bets on $200 Oil (Source)
All talks from TED 2011 rated (Source)
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Field Notes: Oil, Restaurants, Biotech, Clouds, TED, etc.
Trophies for the biggest biotech venture financings? (Source)
The worst restaurant in the world (Source)
Saudi Arabia's `Day of Rage' Lures Record Bets on $200 Oil (Source)
All talks from TED 2011 rated (Source)
Cloud Save extension for Google Chrome ...
Field Notes
White House considers tapping oil reserves (Reuters)
Twitter share auction suggests doubling in three months to $7.7 billion valuation (Reuters)
What Census 2010 Is Telling us About Census 2020 (AdAge)
China opening roughly two new movie theaters a da...
Scaling of Prosocial Behaviors in Cities
Interesting work from my friend Sam Arbesman:
Scaling of prosocial behavior in cities
Samuel Arbesman, a, and Nicholas A. Christakisa
Abstract
Previous research has examined how various behaviors scale in cities in relation to their population size....
PZ Myers on David Brooks
The talk I liked least at this year's TED conference was that of David Brooks, a talented writer whose one-note values-obsessed NY Times columns are consistently passed around for their ... values-obsessedness. Biologist PZ Myers takes on Brooks recent...
Field Notes: Skiing, Complexity, Civilization, Cities, VCs, Coins, etc.
Book reviews: Civilization: The West and the rest (Source)
Consumer response to gas price changes: Inelasticity rules (Source)
TARP beneficiaries and their lending patterns during the financial crisis (Source)
Energy, complexity, and sustainability: A...
Head of Al Jazeera Speaks at TED
A passionate and hugely inspiring talk by the head of Al Jazeera here at TED this week:
Field Notes: Housing, Greenland, Video, Happiness, Snow, Dentists, etc.
Canada & Australia lead way in latest Economist house price/rent ratios (Source)
Greenland update for 2010: record melting and a massive calving event (Source)
Unhealthy Sleep-Related Behaviors --- 12 States, 2009 (Source)
Condemned to Joy: Our un...
Fifteen Reasons News is Bad For You
From a paper that led to a short talk here at this year's TED, fifteen reasons why news is bad for you:
News misleads systematically
News is irrelevant
News limits understanding
News is toxic to your body
News massively increases cognitive errors
News...
David Foster Wallace: Endnotes
BBC on writer David Foster Wallace:
