Four Best Piece of Advice I Gave Me For TED 2011
With TED 2011 entering its final day, here are the four best pieces of advice I gave me and took this year:
Introduce yourself to everyone you think you might ever want to meet but haven't
Leave your laptop in your hotel room
Eat at the food trucks
On...
Field Notes II
Geothermal Industry Dashboard (Source)
Nassim Taleb on Charlie Rose (Source)
Technology Review opens its archive (Source)
Average information content is a much better predictor of word length than is frequency (Source)
Congrats to CoverItLive for bei...
Field Notes: Oil, Cities, Phones, Vallejo, etc.
Interactive Map: Metropolitan Areas and the Next Economy (Source)
Landscapes and their relation to hominin habitats: Case studies from Australopithecus sites in eastern and southern Africa (Source)
The end of oil exports is coming (Source)
Who is Winn...
POV VIdeo of Downhill Bike Race in Chile
This POV video of a downhill bike race in Santiago, Chile is absolutely nuts:
VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.
It’s Just One of Those "Moose Charges Skiers" Stories
From a reader, a moose charging backcountry x-c skiers in waist-deep snow in Quebec. Fun.
Field Notes: Neuroscience, Pathogens, Tanks, Oil, etc.
The limits of neuroscience (Source)
Patients, pathogens, ecosystems (Source)
German tank problem (Source)
Only a recession stands in the way of $200 oil (Source)
Scraper - Google Chrome extension (Source)
TED-ing This Week
I'm at the TED conference in Long Beach this week, so posting may be even more sporadic than its usual sporadic self. If you're here at TED, by all means track me down -- I love to find out what people are up to.
Yesterday's quick TED highlights:
Robe...
Today’s Meta-Horoscope
A meta-horoscope of 22,000 horoscopes using the most common words:
[via IIB]
Field Notes
Pro Sports vs. the Web Pirates (Source)
Older Audience Makes Its Presence Known at the Movies (Source)
Troubling article about a record year of lobster captures. Mesopredator release, anyone? (Source)
Historical Oil Shocks (Source)
‘Volcano of Rage
Avalanche Hits Car on Way to Tahoe
I have never seen anything like this: At 45 seconds into this video, an avalanche hits a car on the way to Tahoe today. Incredible -- with language that is NSFW.
And only 315 views? This is going to go very viral.
Inside Sina Weibo — China’s Twitter
Good deck from Bill Bishop looking at Sina Weibo, China's Twitter. As Bill says, it is not fair to merely call Sina Weibo a Twitter clone as it is more like a full social networking service.
Field Notes: Shuttle, Oil, Snow, Dams. etc
Why you really can’t swap Libyan oil for Saudi (Source)
Melting Snow and Ice Warm Northern Hemisphere : Image of the Day (Source)
Oil could hit $220 a barrel on Libya and Algeria fears, warns Nomura (Source)
3 Great Ways to Watch the Last Space Shut...
