I’m still mulling over the Piaget talk I stumbled on last week. What lead me to it was a recollection of a Piaget quote that was something like “speed is a more primary instinct than time.” that quote is contained in the article I’ve been reading.
Also included in the same lecture are these [...]
from popular mechanics:
“Ever rub a balloon and stick it to a wall? If only larger objects could defy gravity the same way.
Later this week, researchers from the non-profit group SRI International will unveil the design of a wall-climbing robot at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Pasadena, Calif. It can clamber up [...]
Lawrence Lessig has a piece in the nytimes on orphaned artworks. a few days ago i had another post about this subject.
the final sentences of lessig’s writing are:
“In a digital age, knowing the law should be simple and cheap. Congress should be pushing for rules that encourage clarity, not more work for copyright experts.”
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“digital…law…simple…cheap” + [...]
so long, class of ‘08, i’ll miss you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1yxI99OLdg
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from Peirce:
“Nature is a far vaster and less clearly arranged repertory of facts than a census report; and if men had not come to it with special aptitudes for guessing right, it may well be doubted whether in the ten or twenty thousand years that they may have existed their greatest mind would have attained [...]
two days ago i quoted Peirce:
“It is a matter of real fact to say that in a certain room there are two persons. It is a matter of fact to say that each person has two eyes. It is a matter of fact to say that each person has two eyes. It is a matter [...]
the discovery of a 140 year old supernova reminds me of a statement i heard julian barbour make – but i can’t recall where it was. to paraphrase, he said that we have come to know the age of the earth by studying rocks that exist right now.
last semester i asked some students to [...]
I’ve culled this post together from a bunch of recent emails from various sources:
In 1930 Woody Guthrie asked that the following be printed below his published songs.
“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be [...]
Ken Robinson will be in Baltimore as a part of the Creativity Summit at Center Stage,
and there is a free lunch of some sort. He’s consented to let Radar Redux stream the event – and i’ll be doing some of the streaming with Jack Livingston.
Thursday May 22 – 9:30 to 3:30.
To register to attend for [...]
…and if there was a chair, desk, papers, and a cat inside it would look just like my studio. without a cat it would look like my office.
here are its’ relatives.