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- Putting the Risk of Terrorism into Perspective
Over long time, and especially since 2001 many people are very concerned about terrorism – and much money is spent and lots of silly procedures have been invented to protect us.
This very good article puts the risk of terrorism … - Randy Pausch: Last Lecture
Randy Pausch war ein Professor der Informatik, der 2008 an Krebs gestorben ist. Er hat aus seiner Erkrankung kein Geheimnis gemacht und war immer ein lebensbejahender und grundsätzlich positiver Mensch. Die an seiner Universität übliche ‘Last Lecture’ eines scheidenden Professors …
- Film zum Thema Grundeinkommen
Seit ich davon gehört habe, hat mich die Idee fasziniert – ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für alle, was für eine Befreiung stellte das dar! Sh. das Buch von [intlink id="49" type="post"]Götz Werner[/intlink].
Unter grundeinkommen.tv ist das Thema aufgegriffen mit einem … - “Open Company” – Experiment
Noteworthy experiment with an “Open Company” – the idea being that everyone should be working on what he would like to work. The Open Company is taking the idea of open source projects to the company level: anyone could …
- Andy Clark, David J Chalmers: The Extended Mind
Fascinating article about the mind and how confined/extended it might be.
Using pen and paper to perform long multiplications is the first step of externalizing cognistive processes – but we are more and more on a route to have many …
- Quiz: What Should You Really Fear?
Quiz: What Should You Really Fear? – Interesting Quiz revealing how much our perception of risks and events differs from reality. E.g. related to things about terrorism.
- Extrapolating visual input into the future – and optical illusions
As the visual processing takes some time (in the order of 1/10th of a second), the brain will try to extrapolate a given visual stimulus this time into the future. This makes sense, but of course can go wrong sometimes …
- Glück Oder Unglück
Es beschäftigt viele Leute, aber wenige kennen es. Ich höre so oft, dass jemand sagt er hätte kein Glück. Die anderen hätten immer so viel Glück, er niemals. Diese Leute kennen das Glück nicht, besonders dann nicht, wenn sie behaupten, …
- So wie du heute lebst
So wie du heute lebst,
lebst du morgen.
As you live today,
you will live tomorrow.
A simple sentence, heard in my Yoga class as a wisdom from the far-east.
At first I thought this is kind of stupid, defying any sense of change. But … - Your “Permanent Age”
Interesting blog entry from Scott Adams musing about a ‘permanent age’ everyone is in – could be old or young, sometime/often then not perfectly suited to the real age. Also, in a similar …
- Learning Foreign Languages
In ACM Ubiquity, there is a nice article Philip Yaffe: Fast-tracking Foreign Languages: How to Meet the Linguistic Challenges of Working Abroad about learning of foreign languages.It is somewhat directed at english-speaking …
- Diesel Ad: Global Warming
… interesting what kind of ads one can do – see this ‘Global Warming’ series from Diesel.
- Telepresence Taken Seriously
Telepresence taken seriously: Ivan Anywhere – this article tells about a programmer working remotely and missing the presence – so he built a true telepresence. Must be a bit eerie, but then … …
- Violence Declining
Steven Pinker talks about the History of Violence and shows that, despite the feeling we get from news and press, violence is strongly declining in human history. The main questions are then, why …
- About Conversations
After some long conversation with a very good friend about a difficult topic where our opinions (seemed to) differ, I wrote down a few things to remember:
very important is to feel the gap between the participants in their respective …
- Paul Graham: Wisdom & Intelligence
Interesting article by Paul Graham considering wisdeom versus intelligence at http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html.Whereas wisdom comes through humility, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have a mistakenly high opinion of your abilities, because …
- Dan Gilbert: TED Talk On Happiness
About happiness: we synthesize happiness, we are not finding it. Synthetic happiness is as strong as found happiness.- quoting lots of nice stories … impact is much overrated, e.g. paraplegics & lottery winners show same happiness after the event …
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