New World record Highest wave - Garrett McNamara - Praia Do Norte - Nazare - november 2011 (by SURFprevention)
RSAnimated about the power of networks. Reductionism—> trashcan, say hello to Holism.
Do People Hold Robots Morally Accountable? - Here is a experiment with a robot who judges a action (deliberately wrong) performed by a human. See how te person tells the robot it is wrong. 65% of te participants did held the robot moral responsible.
Brings questions in to mind for the following years when robots will be able to perform more and more difficult task. (Futher reading: Do People Hold a Humanoid Robot Morally Accountable for the Harm It Causes?)
(via Sisyphus Watch :: Unemployed Philosophers Guild)
Why wear a watch that just tells you the time, when you can wear a watch that constantly reminds you of the futility of your very existence — and tells you the time!
Muybridge used the zoopraxiscope to find out how a horse did run. Till then (1872) people tought horses did run like a gazelle.
When Muybridge falsified this and painters started to paint a horse runing the right way people where shocked: That was not the way you should paint a horse!
Another example that we see the world because we know how it is.
(Source: schtroumpfette, via sowhenyoufeellikeitsallpretend)
