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boldesol: Alan Turing is the father of computer science. He is largely responsible for development of the Turing-Welchman bombe, which effectively cracked Enigma-encoded messages during WWII. He created a formal definition of the algorithm and created the Turing machine. Without him, we may not have computers as we know them to be today. In 1952,…
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curiosity counts: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
curiosity counts: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of curiositycounts: Excerpt: Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex. She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics:…
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smarterplanet: Researchers Trigger Memories by Stimulating Individual Neurons: MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a small cluster of neurons, the researchers were able to force the subject to recall a specific memory. By removing these neurons, the subject would lose that memory.…
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bookporn: Jorge Luis Borges
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I wondered whether giving more than 10 minutes of every class period to reading books of our own choosing was a good idea or not. But you loved it so. You asked for more time. Ask again; I will give you whatever you need. I will also give you the best advice I can, advice…
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youmightfindyourself: In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire…
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This might be a little presumptuous of me to say but I feel as though the visual arts movements are far behind the music movements. It seems as though we are in the stages of using synthesizers and visual information is starting to look fragmented and appropriated much like when electronic music began to popularize…
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All creativity is an extended form of a joke. Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that…
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The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed. William Gibson (via wilwheaton)