This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
If you use two approaches to ranking web pages — PageRank (Google-developed) and 2D Rank (which measures how many external sources cited) — and you apply those ranking systems to Wikipedia, here’s what you learn about the “most important people… Continue Reading
Let’s get it going. “I’ll give you me. I’ll give you my whole body.” Bob Costas = conflicted. Kenny “The Jet” talking about Game 5 during the O.J. chase. Here’s 53 minutes of the chase: Here’s the “suicide note” from… Continue Reading
Here’s the article, and here’s the money quote: “If you think of the ocean as a bank account in which everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit, then protected marine reserves are like savings accounts that produce interest,” Sala told… Continue Reading
Think about this: if 20 years ago tomorrow was, instead, tomorrow — the Internet might break in half. You’d be in the middle of the World Cup — already poised to be the most-tweeted event in history — and you’d… Continue Reading
Check out the chart above; it’s from the awesome-to-read Richard Florida at CityLab. The stuff on the far right shouldn’t surprise you: the “most educated” people are heading to Seattle, San Francisco, DC, Denver, and San Jose/The Valley. This corresponds with previous… Continue Reading
Next week at Google I/O, it looks like we’ll see some iteration of Google Fit, which is essentially a health data aggregation service. This is relevant to a lot of people because Google doesn’t fail very often — not on… Continue Reading
For better or worse, we live in an instant gratification society right now. This is evident in a few walks of life, from the emergence of social media (cited by everyone) to business (focus on quarter-by-quarter results, which ultimately tell you… Continue Reading
hitchBOT is going to try and cross Canada this summer as a hitchhiker. Why that’s novel: it’s ostensibly a robot made out of a bucket. “This is both an artwork and social robotics experiment,” Zeller and Harris told me in… Continue Reading