August 2009
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Back in Auburn
Things I’ve Missed:
Being a bike ride away from the majority of my friends Pandora/Hulu The ability to cook my own food (and make tea/coffee!) Living without a roommate My washing machine (no more bucket washes!) …
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July 2009
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Since I don’t have an internet connection in my room I’ve been downloading a lot of TED talks while I’m at the lab. Yesterday I watched two that got me thinking about how kids are growing up around the world.
Jay Walker (English mania) points out that English is becoming the world’s second language. A person’s first language will still be important — but just...
Is Peak Oil Real? A List of Countries Past Peak →
(via azspot)
The fossil fuel deposits of our Spaceship Earth correspond to our automobile’s storage battery which must be conserved to turn over our main engine’s self-starter. Thereafter, our “main engine,” the life regenerating processes, must operate exclusively on our vast daily energy income from the powers of wind, tide, water, and the direct Sun radiation energy. The...
“It wasn’t that long ago that when a kid broke his leg playing stickball, his...”
– Bill Maher (via apsies) (via robot-heart-politics)
WatchThe articles on the new Yu Wan Mei Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries and Polymer Injection Corp. sponsored version of The Onion have been hilarious — but the videos are even better.
Leaving Chennai →
When I first came to IIT Madras it was easy to think of everything in terms of what I thought was lacking — now with less than forty-eight hours left on campus it’s hard to ignore everything that I won’t find back home.
Etching →
I was browsing Appropedia this morning when I noticed that someone had created an article on etching — albeit one completely unrelated to etching and pretty obscene.
I wonder what motivates someone to do something like that. Oh well, at least he motivated me to write a stub on printed circuit board etching.
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5 myths about sleep →
americansatori: buffleheadcabin: heyhope: robot-heart:
spaceships: Myth #1. Humans Need Eight Hours Sleep a Night There are many ways of sleeping and few cultures sleep in eight-hour consolidated blocks like we do. In places like Bali and New Guinea, people tend to slip in and out of sleep as they need it, napping more during the day, and getting up more at night. Until the industrial era, many...
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Roll Your Own Economy
buffleheadcabin: ambivalence:
Interesting piece from Tyler Cohen, One Lesson from the Crisis: It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy. Pokes at some interesting ideas, but doesn’t go far enough on the new economics discussion. I’d have liked him to explore the angles around a no-growth economic system, and how we can create it by opting out of the growth economy: no borrowing?
Free stuff on the...
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Watchlandscapearchitecture:
What is architecture? 14 JUL 2009 By David Basulto — Filed under: Videos For MAYA design, authors of this video, that is architecture. (via What is architecture? | ArchDaily)
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