Amping Up Brain Function: Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning: Scientific American

cool, but where can i buy it?

Seems Legit

Rails Creator Bashes MBA at Stanford

is it really cocky when you know that it's true?

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2351

IV Hangover Treatment Hits Chicago

$99 dollars and 1 hour of your time.

Still, a stupid idea.

Recursion

Single-Click Double-Tap Murder

Drones are to nation-states what assault rifles are to psychotic mass murderers.

What does randomness look like? | Empirical Zeal

From Empirical Zeal

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What drives suicidal mass killers

"In fact, we should think of many rampage shooters as nonideological suicide terrorists. In some cases, they claim to be fighting for a cause — neo-Nazism, eugenics, masculine supremacy or an antigovernment revolution — but, as with suicide terrorists, their actions usually stem from something much deeper and more personal."

www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/opinion/what-drives-suicidal-mass-killers.html?hp&_r=1&

An opportunistic pathogen isolated from the gut of an obese human causes obesity in germfree mice

http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/ismej2012153f1.html#figure-title

2 billion pixel photo of mt everest

can you find the climbers?

Golden Eagle Snatches Kid

Repost from empire without an emperor: From the essay "How to Proceed in the Arts," written in 1952 by Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara, but not published until Barney Russet did so in the Evergreen Review in 1961

EMPIRE WITHOUT AN EMPEROR | DECEMBER 6, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/gpf5Z
A Detailed Study of the Creative Act 1. Empty yourself of everything. 2. Think of far away things. 3. It is 12:00. Pick up ... Read more

yay! maps!

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/13/google-maps-becomes-the-app-stores-most-popular-free-app-just-7-hours-after-launch/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share+button&utm_content=Google%20Maps%20becomes%20the%20App%20Store%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s%20most%20popular%20free%20app,%20just%207%20hours%20after%20launch&utm_campaign=social+media

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Sounding Smart

instead of saying, "here's an example of what I mean"

say...

"here's an instantiation of what i mean."

boom.

smartness.

be prepared for wtfs and pushback, especially the dreaded "if you meant to say "example", why didn't you just say "example?""

To which you respond, "Obviously, I was only trying to Sound Smart"

Spreadsheet of every TED talk

Spreadsheet of every TED talk

Indefinite and fictitious numbers

 Their size is dependent upon the context, but can typically be considered large enough to be unfathomable.

Introduction to Bayesian Filtering

http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.process.com%2Fprecisemail%2Fbayesian_filtering.htm