September 2010
19 posts
NYT Op-ed: In Afghanistan, it takes a village to... →
Some good points. Good schools tend to be results of community effort, in Afghanistan or in NYC. I’m sure it’s a foreign notion to much of the public education bureaucrats who treat the community, the parents and even the children as freeloaders and burdens of the system.
Epigenetic memory in induced pluripotent stem... →
To be read later.
NY Time:3D printing is spurring a manufacturing... →
Good to see some fresh new things happening.
Our current education system is nowhere near capable of producing workers who can fuel this change though.
Why founding a three person startup with zero... →
Deceptive title. The real fun of the blog post is about taking a peek into the life of a ‘quant’, ex-physicist-turned-analysts that are all too frequent in the wall street world these days.
I kind of wish the author wrote more about how exactly better is the ‘junior high popularity contest’ startup scene compared to puking at GS. I mean, other than the obvious reasons....
NY Times Op-Ed: Mr. Soddy's Ecological Economy →
Interesting. Although I am still a little skeptical about attempt to fuse the laws of thermodynamics to any supposed science without conserved element (like energy in physics).
Cody Brown 140 >: I'm Starting a Half Way House... →
codybrowntext:
A week ago, I signed a lease for an apartment in Bushwick that was formally a half way house—a place where people who used to be addicted to heroin go to ‘sober up’. After months of commuting to work together, Kate Ray and I are moving in together to work on kommons.com. We are thrilled to…
Using Jello for introductory microfluidics course →
Trying to work this into upcoming makerfaire.
A class to die for: Zombies 101 at U. Baltimore →
“Call it Zombies 101.
“The University of Baltimore is offering a new class on the undead.
“The course is being taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, ‘Zombiemania,’ and the curator of Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, which focuses on American pop culture.
“Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics. As an alternative to a...
Google Wave: wave-in-a-box →
I’m still a little pissed about the wave being shut down. Will certainly try to get my hands on the standalone version, maybe expand it for hackerspace/community lab uses.
OSSI: Building your own microsatellite. →
Cool dude. I really want to try it at some point too.
BglBricks, new flexible standard for engineering... →
I should read this later.
How to build your own open source dropbox clone →
It’s very simple. You know what pisses me off? That all those opensource people weren’t able to come up with a service like dropbox aimed at general public.