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Still need to blog
One day Facebook will be gone. But your blog can live on…
Recently I’ve been writing stuff on Facebook, because the engagement level there is so high. But I’ve found that if I want people who don’t use Facebook, and there are still important people who don’t, you have to put it somewhere else, and for me that’s here on my blog.
When I was 7, this was the first magazine I ever bought with my own money
Realizing Our Place in the Universe
“This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy ā otherwise known as M31.This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image.”
via Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy | ESA/Hubble.
I had to download the 4.3 GB file. For science.
Brian Greene on the State of String Theory 2015
Much as the sonorous tones of a cello arise from the vibrations of the instrumentās strings, the collection of natureās particles would arise from the vibrations of the tiny filaments described by string theory. The long list of disparate particles that had been revealed over a century of experiments would be recast as harmonious ānotesā comprising natureās score.
via Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics | Smithsonian.
Accepting Change And Being an Expert
It’s hard enough already not to become the prisoner of your own expertise, but it will only get harder, because change is accelerating. That’s not a recent trend; change has been accelerating since the paleolithic era. Ideas beget ideas. I don’t expect that to change. But I could be wrong.
School Lunches
Soylent Green is people (but seriously, this looks terrible)!
Students have posted their photos of mystery slop and scant portions after Mrs Obama spearheaded the United State Department of Agriculture’s "Let’s Move!" initiative to crackdown on obesity by reducing fat, simple sugars and salt in school food.
Books Aren’t Just Commodities
Worth your time (and I love the dig at Amazon and the cartel of book publishers):
Books arenāt just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable ā but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
Short-form blogging thoughts
Great thoughts on blogging in 2014 from Gina Trapani…
This is still a work-in-progress, notes-to-self kind of thing, but itās been sitting in Draft for months now, so itās time to get it out. With the obvious caveat that rules are made to be broken (with reason), my new rules for blogging are…
Why Blogs?
Yep…
Blogs are ā or at least were ā different. They are an individualās place for speaking out loud, but the relationships that form around them were based on links among posts, not social networks that link among people. Iām all for social networks, but we also need networks of ideas.