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theatlanticcities: “Bogotá is an urban policy ‘miracle,’ moving from failure to case study in just 20 years. The Colombian capital has become known internationally for it innovative municipal initiatives prioritizing civic culture, public transportation, public spaces, and creative social programs. Bogotá’s transformation has been led by strong figures like former Mayor Antanas Mockus, who mooned a university…
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“We intuitively assume that our visual system generates a continuous stream of images, just like a video camera. However, we have now demonstrated that the visual cortex suppresses redundant information and saves energy by frequently forwarding image differences.” The researchers recorded the neurons’ responses to natural image sequences, for example vegetation landscapes or buildings. They…
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The case for Dennis Rodman
The case for Dennis Rodman jkottke: At Skeptical Sports, Benjamin Morris (who was just hired at FiveThirtyEight) has an extensive series of posts about Dennis Rodman. The conclusion he arrives at after many graphs and a dozen different posts is that Dennis Rodman was probably way better at whatever it was that Dennis Rodman did…
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After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought
After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought tacanderson: MOOCs aren’t broken. Anytime you reduce the friction for people to start something you’re going to see an increase in people not finishing. That’s not a bad thing. It doesn’t even mean they didn’t get what they wanted/needed out of it. What we really need is a MOOC…
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underarainbow: Hutton did not describe the Earth’s evolution as a linear and irreversible process but as a dynamic cycle of erosion, deposition, consolidation, and uplifting before erosion starts the cycle anew. At localities in Scotland, he observed that granite was not the oldest rock, as Werner and his student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had assumed.…
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Bicycle makers have recognized these problems for a long while, but few companies have attempted to address them. Organic Transit is the latest to take on this long-standing challenge. Its three-wheeled Elf adopts what’s known as the “tadpole configuration,” with two wheels in front and one in the rear. In this respect, it’s similar to…
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Humble Weekly Sale featuring Puppy Games!
Humble Weekly Sale featuring Puppy Games! humblebundle: Name your price for four DRM-free and cross-platform titles from Puppy Games! //www.youtube.com/v/LFinq4N3Ofs?hl=en_US&version=3 Be sure to watch it in HD! This week, pay what you want for Ultratron, Droid Assault, Revenge of the Titans and Titan Attacks! All of these games are fired-up and ready to play…
