Image via Wikipedia Since I last looked the number of Universities offering free online course material has grown immensely. A slightly out-of-date summary can be found here. There are also a growing number of Universities offering online courses and one University, The People’s University, offering them for free. The University of the People is… Read More Online Universities and Courses
Here is a nice HDR time lapse movie of an old chapel in Poland. According to the author, Patryk Kizny, this short film pays tribute to an exceptional protestant temple in Zeliszów, Poland, designed by Karl Langhans and built in 1796-1797. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.8401753 TheChapel. A short film. (HDR timelapse), posted with vodpod Related articles This HDR… Read More TheChapel. A short film. (HDR timelapse)
In this TEDtalk, Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation … http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.8391933 Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women, posted with vodpod Transcript We are now going through an amazing and unprecedented moment where the power dynamics between men and… Read More Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women
We are going through times of unprecedented change which, as one might expect, is effecting men in a very different way than women. Change, whether technological or Political, always does. Unfortunately the way we discuss the changes that are effecting us now hasn’t changed and we still use a rhetoric more appropriate for starting a… Read More The Rhetoric Of Change
Image via Wikipedia There are four names that come to mind when thinking about the history of computation. These are Charles Babbage, Lady Lovelace, John von Neumann and Alan Turing. Not only are their names associated with computation but also with Artificial Intelligence because they all speculated about building intelligent machines. The Turing test… Read More The Turing Test
The Global Economy and Innovation have existed hand in hand since time memorable. The Ancient Britons traded tin with the Phoenicians along with their knowledge of metallurgy. New ideas spread quickly along these trade routes because then, as is today, the creative use of natural resources was a prime source of power. This is probably… Read More Innovation And The Global Economy
Image by Getty Images via @daylife These days Bank Tax is a hot topic because governments are trying to regulate financial services after the recent financial crisis that effected almost the whole world. Only closed economies like North Korea and Cuba are potentially immune from the boom/bust nature of the global economy. What caused… Read More Bank Tax
Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr Most of us are impressed by new and novel ideas and if your like me spend a lot of time searching for them on the web. A good source of new ideas that I came across recently is published yearly by the New York Times (NYT). The 10th… Read More A Good Source Of Ideas
We all like to read about the nature of the Universe and what physicists have to say about space and time. Consequently, most of us have heard about Relativity and the strange phenomena associated with it. In this video by Yuanjian Luo, time dilation is explained in a rather interesting way by telling a story… Read More Relativity
