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POPSSeeing in four dimensions The videos are all available free at www.dimensions-math.org. The videos go on to show how we can visualize imaginary numbers geometrically, how fractal patterns emerge in the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets, and how beautiful and complex shapes can be built up from circles.
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POPSAn Illustrated Guide to Every Cable You Need A Comment: "I hear Job's is working on the one cable to replace them all. Supposedly once you plug it into a device, it makes that device infinitely more powerful, then becomes invisible so there's no mess. One cable to rule them all, one cable to find them. One cable to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
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POPSDon S. Davis passed away Services for Don S. Davis will be small and private, in both Vancouver and Los Angeles. His Web sites will be updated this week, and his obituary has been published in the Vancouver Sun newspaper. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests that donations be made to the American Heart Association in Don's memory.
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POPSMathematics "It is the application of a logically consistent set of rules and grammatical constructions to create more intricate rules and constructions. These constructions are used to model the world of external observation, and they do so with remarkable precision."
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POPSThe Future is now - Dr. Kurzweil's Predictions Dr. Kurzweil is so confident in these curves that he has made a $10,000 bet with Mitch Kapor, the creator of Lotus software. By 2029, Dr. Kurzweil wagers, a computer will pass the Turing Test by carrying on a conversation that is indistinguishable from a human's.
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POPSTEDsphere Talks Interface not a very usable interface, but a nice way to discover related content from a most valuable resource. Try it out here The talks on TED source site are in a higher quality, but you can easily click through.
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POPSMapping Kerouac: The Grammatical Artwork of Stefanie Posavec Posavec dissects every word, phrase, sentence, and subject of Kerouac's On the Road to invent new ways of looking at the familiar masterpiece. The diagrams make for beautiful art in their own right. (See source for high-res pictures.) In her structure analysis, each chapter explodes in a color-coded starburst of topical breakdowns. At a glance, you can see Kerouac's focus wander from the sketches of local life in the beginning, to depictions of work and travel in the middle, with women and the subject of love dominating the latter chapters. The comparative sentence diagrams are what really drew me in. It's fascinating to behold an entire literary work all at once on one page. What's more, Kerouac's casual prose style can be differentiated immediately from the stately, grandiose writing of Faulkner, not to mention the terse, claustrophobic style of Orwell's fiction. Literary reductionism at its most fun and beautiful.
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POPSA new kind of web -2- These are even more interesting and fun (to me). Calculate how far you walked and how much calories you burned, fly around with a flash-animated plane or make your own maps containing information you choose and share it.
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POPSElephant Art Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint an amazing self portrait.
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