October 2009
45 posts
Zillow Analysis Reveals Prime Trick-or-Treating... →
“Chicago rats fed a diet of sausage, pound cake, bacon, cheesecake, and Ho Hos...”
– Weekly Review—By Paul Ford (Harper’s Magazine)
A summary of this article. (via dalasverdugo)
Interesting read!
“A lot of people divide their live into their educational stage and their work...”
– Paul Buchheit at Startup School ‘09 (via hiten)
The Manhattan Street Corners →
cubicle17:
The Manhattan Street Corners is my working title for a project to produce a comprehensive photographic portrait of everyday life at street level in daytime Manhattan. Between March and November, 2006, I systematically photographed each and every one of the island’s roughly 11,000 street corners.
Guess that’s roughly 11,000 pictures I’ll have to look through to decide which ones I...
Sunday School: Stephen Hawking's theory of life in... →
fuckyeahspace:
This is an amazing and famous lecture about the evolution of life on Earth and theories of evolutionary biology elsewhere in the universe. It also touches on alien contact and the nature of human intelligence. Can’t handle it? Read the relatively evolution-free summary here.
What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy. If the...
Sunday School: The Life Cycle of a Star →
fuckyeahspace:
If you watch this video, four minutes from now you will have a pretty good knowledge of the life cycle of a star.
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009) →
yaelgreenberg:
One of the best articles I’ve read in a long time.
How 20 popular websites looked when they launched.... →
suitep:
From Google to youtube, from craigslist to flickr - how some of today’s biggest sites looked back in the early days of their existence.
“Find what gets you out of bed ..then make it your life.”
– Seen on my college advisor’s desk.
One of many clues that said “hey you belong here too.” Overjoyed, nervous and college bound after all these years.
(via mytoday)
