What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
Some really cool music from the Dawes. The lyrics are, well, you decide.
Warning: This music might be addictive, turn up the volume.
I buckle in my seat belt, plug my headset in a chair/ And to the music, I watch flight attendants move/ They are pointing out the exits, but it looks more like a prayer/ Or an ancient dance their bloodline reaches through
If you use Chrome, Dictionary of Numbers is a very useful extension – it searches through the page for numbers it can understand, & when it finds one, adds an inline explanation for that number in human terms.
A bipolar comedian, Joshua Walters, asks whats the right balance between medicating craziness away, and riding the manic edge of creativity and drive. Worth six minutes of your time.
Maybe there’s no such thing as being crazy.
Gross, you think? They have something similar on the International Space Station – where drinking water is in scare supply. But this was cheaper to build, says Andreas Hammar, a Swedish engineer, using a technique known as membrane distillation. Watch the UNICEF video called Sweat for Water or read more about it here.
Nearly half a century after Alan Turing committed suicide, facing imprisonment & chemical castration upon being convicted of being a homosexual, the British government will consider pardoning him. As Lord Sharkey, the MP behind the bill said:
I think everybody knows, he was convicted in 1952 of gross indecency and sentenced to chemical castration. He committed suicide two years later. The government know that Turing was a hero and a very great man. They acknowledge that he was cruelly treated. They must have seen the esteem in which he is held here and around the world.”
Sometimes, the best thing management can do is to get out of the way, writes Francis Gouillart in his blog on co-creation. Invited to assist in helping the local UK unemployment office in Harlesden engage with the ethnic communities in the region, Gouillart explains that overcoming his initial urge to jump on a plane back to Boston was worthwhile. An interesting read, if you are in any sort of leadership roles.
Start the weekend with a great blues tune by the Mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey – Prove it on me.
Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record.
Apparently not – the color of the yolk has nothing to do with nutritional value. The brighter egg yolk color is almost entirely influenced by the birds diet, says a poultry specialist. Links in the article from the NPR.
Several decades ago, John H. Steinway (the great-grandson of Henry E. Steinway) narrated an audio tour of the New York factory, where he described the generations-old process of making a Steinway grand piano. In 2011 Ben Niles, the producer behind the documentary film Note by Note, synced the audio tour with present-day footage of the Steinway factory, giving us a glimpse of what goes into making the piano
David K Randall’s book, Dreamland, explains how a seemingly change can have a profound effect on everything from academic performance to bullying.
Studies of teenagers around the globe have found that adolescent brains do not start releasing melatonin until around eleven o’clock at night and keep pumping out the hormone well past sunrise.