Smashing Telly presents Dr. Ben Goldacre laying waste to the media’s obsession with scare stories involving science and medicine. In the linked video Goldacre takes on anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists, chiefly the LBC’s Jeni Barnett.
Goldacre writes The Guardian’s Bad Science column and maintains his own Bad Science blog. He’s also a delicious user, with plenty of good links but no tags.
In a post dense with ideas about the future of television, Noah Brier wonders if television will eventually deliver two different forms of content: the traditional “live” form and a new “time shifted” form enabled by DVR and related technologies.
There’s also a thought-provoking quote from Jared of the Naked NYC blog: “Technology and music reward early adoption, but television does not.”
Agreed. I just finished watching Arrested Development for the first time. About halfway through the first disc, I was glad I hadn’t seen the show when it was on TV; I would have been too heartbroken upon hearing of its cancellation.
A Flickr set containing some absolutely stunning visualizations created by Jer Thorp using Processing and the New York Times article search API.
These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.
He must have added some recently, because he’s got 1984 to 2009 represented now.
Update: there’s more information about the visualizations over at blprnt.
Jennifer Trausch
[via hawktrainer]
Trausch uses a 235 lb. polaroid camera to capture her amazingly clear images. Hawktrainer recommends the Skateland series; so do I. Especially the shot named Larry. There’s an interview with her from 2007 on The Daily F’log (along with a picture of her using the camera).
The Sky in Motion
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It’s a particularly striking example of a timelapse capture of the night sky, taken on Eagle Island, Maine.
Supersize mind
[via blackbeltjones]
the Extended Mind Thesis . . . fits my life intuitively. I feel that both technology and media extend my mind, and mingle it with other minds. This is why I do what I do; I like that promiscuity, that cultural reproduction.
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