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Yes, all of these photos were taken on Earth
With more than 7 billion people on this planet, you’d imagine there are no spots left unspoiled and untouched by a reckless humanity. You’d be wrong though — and these spots will make you want to pack up and go exploring.
The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house
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Google Self-driving car encounters woman in a wheelchair chasing a duck.
Via Kottke - How Google’s self-driving car sees the road, via Tom T.
Goldman Sachs… has calculated that the payback period for industrial robots has shortened to 1.7 years this year from 11.8 years in 2008. Next year, the payback period is set to shorten again to 1.3 years, assuming an average replacement cycle of 10 years. The prospect of being able to pay off the cost of a robot in slightly more than a year, Goldman Sachs says, has brought industrial automation to within the reach of China’s millions of small and medium-sized manufacturers, creating the conditions for a productivity surge
China seeks productivity salvation in robots - FT.com (via interestingsnippets)

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As someone who wants to make a difference in the effects of climate change, what would you suggest studying? What programs should you look into when applying for university?
Hi Anon!
Good question and this is my favorite type of inquiry. The answer is: it depends. What do you mean by ‘make a difference’? Environmentalism is slow, frustrating, and painful. It’s not easy. You have to learn to write, understand how governments work, and learn how to negotiate with terrible people.
Don’t search for schools by rankings; search for an experienced professor who will advise and challenge you for four years. Be sure the professor has real-world experience and run projects outside of the classroom. Dr. Ed Carr of USC, for example, teaches geography and he runs the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab (HURDL). HURDL focuses on climate adaptation, gender, and agriculture issues and their field work is in interesting countries. He has real world experience and he pushes his students to publish.
For me, higher-ed offered two things: skills and knowledge. Skills are what I learned from experiences, knowledge is what I got from testing and rote learning.
I mainly focused on skills. If you’re going to be a successful environmentalist (or anything) it’s absolutely imperative you learn how to write, and write well. Take advanced writing classes and push your limits to the max. You need to hit all the notes; technical writing for the sciences (should be obvious why), creative writing for the arts (to help you “see”), and business writing (very important for communicating with decision makers).
Also in the skills category is networking. You absolutely have to network the shit out of your professors and any and all contacts. While it’s good to have a lot of friends in your cohort, it’s much better to have colleagues in your field who are connected to jobs. Learn early: you are competing with your cohort for the same jobs.
You’ll need reference letters, so create rapport early and often. Always shine during internships, definitely send thank you letters when you’ve finished and left the job!
Maintain relationships with profs even if you’re not taking that prof’s class. Talk about what you want to do openly, and ask directly for help, topics, and tips. If you do not ask, you will not receive!
Create and maintain a circle of specialists for professional advice - you’re in public health, so sit down with each professor during office hours and discuss your goals and how to achieve them. Have a clear agenda and decently clear focus during these meetings:
“Dear Professor,
I’m Ms. Awesome and would like to meet with you to discuss potential career options. How about this Friday at 10am for coffee at the cafeteria?
Sincerely,
Ms. Awesome”
Professors, especially ones who have practiced in the real world, are very connected to jobs and resources in ways that do not come out in the classroom.
Networking is hard. If you learn the art of networking during these school years, you’ll be polished by the time you get out into the real world. You’ll be light-years ahead of your graduating class, which, as you’ll see, are applying for the same jobs as you are.
Then there are classes that will build on these skills: statistics, macro-economics, law, city government, architecture. All of these areas are vibrant and take a hybrid (“multi-disciplinary”) approach.
With stats, you’ll be able to better understand how to read charts and graphs and stats in any report, be it financial or environmental - you’ll have an excellent bullshit detector.
With macro-economics, you’ll be able to argue for better health policy using numbers culled from government databases.
With law, you’ll finally learn why history matters, how to interpret a decision, and how to deepen your research skills.
City government will help you understand how public health and policy is actually implemented (public health classes don’t!). It’s a rare opportunity to learn how gvt functions, so take advantage.
Architecture or art history, again, will help you “see” the world and interpret context and culture. You’ll be better equipped to understand and make better recommendations for, say, the poor in New Orleans by understanding the cultural nuances of neighborhood territoriality, front-porch design, plantation mentality, and historic preservation - all of these things are barriers to better public health, and architecture or art history provides a framework for you to understand how to interpret culture into better programs (trust me!).
Finally, see my other posts on Law School, women in the environment, and Pros/cons of Law School.Keep in touch, Michael
Study Tip How to Study by MIT Graduate Scott Young recently finished an astounding feat: he completed all 33 courses in MIT’s fabled computer science curriculum, from Linear Algebra to Theory of Computation, in less than one year. More importantly, he did it all on his own, watching the lectures online and evaluating himself using the actual exams. Check out the link for more in depth info. 1. Coverage The first step in learning anything deeply, is to get a general sense of what you need to learn.For a class, this means watching lectures or reading textbooks. For self-learning it might mean reading several books on the topic and doing research. Take sparse notes while reading, or do a one-paragraph summary after you read each major section. 2. Practice Practice problems should be used to highlight areas you need to develop a better intuition for. Non-technical subjects, ones where you mostly need to understand concepts, not solve problems, can often get away with minimal practice problem work. In these subjects, you’re better off spending more time on the third phase, developing insight. 3. Insight THE FEYNMAN TECHNIQUE The technique is simple: a)Get a piece of paper b) Write at the top the idea or process you want to understand c)Explain the idea, as if you were teaching it to someone else What’s crucial is that the third step will likely repeat some areas of the idea you already understand. However, eventually you’ll reach a stopping point where you can’t explain. That’s the precise gap in your understanding that you need to fill. For Formulas Formulas should be understood, not just memorized. So when you see a formula, but can’t understand how it works, try walking through each part with a Feynman. Most intuitions about an idea break down into one of the following types: a)Analogies – You understand an idea by correctly recognizing an important similarity between it and an easier-to-understand idea. b)Visualizations – Abstract ideas often become useful intuitions when we can form a mental picture of them. Even if the picture is just an incomplete representation of a larger, and more varied, idea. c) Simplifications – A famous scientist once said that if you couldn’t explain something to your grandmother, you don’t fully understand it. Simplification is the art of strengthening those connections between basic components and complex ideas.
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US police killings in 2015: inside the shocking numbers in 2 minutes
The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and the results for the first six months are in: a total of 545 people have died after encounters with law enforcement – so far. Of those, the vast majority have been shot dead despite more than one in five of these victims being unarmed. Black people have been disproportionately killed, at a rate twice that of white and Hispanic/Latino people. (All figures in the video above are as of June 29, 2015.) Explore The Counted to find out what this means in the context of race and the rest of the world. Send us tips to help us keep count.
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An M6.4 class solar flare and filament eruption, captured on Jan. 1, 2014.
Credit: LMSAl/halocme

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The proof of Sum of Square Numbers!
Superflux: Drone Aviary
Superb new futures research from Superflux, which dares to look “into a near-future city co-habit with ‘intelligent’ semi autonomous, networked, flying machines.
The Drone Aviary reveals fleeting glimpses of the city from the perspective of drones. It explores a world where the ‘network’ begins to gain physical autonomy. Drones become protagonists, moving through the city, making decisions about the world and influencing our lives in often opaque yet profound ways.
The installation will be displayed within the V&A Civic Objects display at their "All Of This Belongs To You” show, running from 1st April to 19th July 2015 in London.
[read more about the project] [Motherboard Feature]
Hypnotic Kinetic Sculptures by Jennifer Townley Fuse Mathematics and Art
Principles and Parameters - Linguistics Topic 25
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How much do languages have in common underneath? Are there some rules all languages follow? In this episode, we talk about the Principles and Parameters approach to Universal Grammar, and look at some principles that all languages obey, as well as some parameters that offer a choice between two options for your language.
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From Drifter to Dynamo: The Story of Plankton
Most plankton are tiny drifters, wandering in a vast ocean. But where wind and currents converge they become part of a grander story… an explosion of vitality that affects all life on Earth, including our own.
By: Deep Look.
Heart On A Chip Beats To Test Drugs
The gifs above show the newest in an expanding selection of living cells grown in devices to model human organs. This one comes from the University of California, Berkeley, where researchers have grown human heart cells derived from adult stem cells in a one-inch silicone housing. The system is being developed to test how different drugs and compounds would work on the actual organ.
The top gif shows the heart cells beating normally. The gif below it shows the cells after they have been exposed to isoproterenol, a drug used to treat several heart problems including bradycardia, a condition in which the heart rate is too slow. The cells in the lower gif beat significantly faster 30 minutes after coming into contact with the drug.
“Ultimately, these chips could replace the use of animals to screen drugs for safety and efficacy,” said bioengineering professor Kevin Healy. This would be a significant improvement over the current model used in the pharmaceutical pipeline since the biology of animal test subjects differs significantly from humans. Such differences lead to inaccurate findings about new drugs’ efficacy and toxicity once used on people.
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