http://vanlingen.name RSS Frank van Lingen en-us What does it mean to think clearly in moral terms? Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:34:56 +0000 55 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/moral-clarity/index.html Very interesting talks from Dawkings, Singer and Myers Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:34:56 +0000 54 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2010/2853586.htm Overview of the issues and consequences w.r.t the massive amounts of data mankind acquires. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 53 http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557443 Interesting research article which exposes some common medical myths. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 52 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1288 Technology to turn renewable raw materials into a range of 100% biodegradable products. The products includes plates, trays and bowls and a range of packaging, industrial and medical products - all made by using waste potato starch as a raw material. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 51 http://www.potatoplates.com/ Interesting statement, with plausible argument. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 50 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/ A potential low cost technique for manufacturing eyeglasses. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 49 http://www.vdw.ox.ac.uk/resources/OphthalPhysiolOpt_24_234_Douali_Silver_Self-optimised_vision_correction_with_adaptive_spectacle_lenses_in_developing_countries.pdf Chronicles the 2008 financial collapse through stories of the people who realized what was happening to the U.S. economy while it was happening, and then made vast fortunes by betting against the markets. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 48 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124690424 It is a nice graph, but unfortunately it lacks a description of the methodology used (at the time of writing this I could not find it). Even more unfortunate is the attention this gets from other sites and established media without any critical analysis. Data provenance is just as important as the data itself. Even when a methodology and provenance description do not fit in a 'press release' format, it is still worthwhile to provide a link to it (after all this is the world wide web) Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 47 http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2010/03/facebook_reaches_top_ranking_i.html Tracking who's hot and who's not presents an algorithmic challenge Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 46 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-britney-spears-problem/ Interesting research which should be read by journalists and policy makers on this subject Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 45 http://www.nibr.no/uploads/publications/26b0226ad4177819779c2805e91c670d.pdf The economics of making movies and how films are financed Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:34:56 +0000 44 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/03/05/pm-hollywood-q/ Data longevity depends on both the storage medium and the ability to decipher the information Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:34:56 +0000 43 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2010/3/avoiding-a-digital-dark-age Similarities between physics and multimedia Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:34:56 +0000 41 http://vanlingen.name/web/opinion/2010/multimediaPhysics.html Augmented reality Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:34:56 +0000 40 http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Niels Bohr and reaction time Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:34:56 +0000 39 http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8493000/8493203.stm One Woman's Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:34:56 +0000 38 http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/books/hela-s-legacy.html For more than a decade, Teaching for America has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels ahead in a year and others can't Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:34:56 +0000 37 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/good-teaching Toyota: Software to blame for Prius brake problems. Software bugs can be expensive. Good testing procedures and practices are potentially a cheaper alternative. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:04:48 +0000 36 http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/japan.prius.complaints/index.html More or Less Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:49:48 +0000 35 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/more_or_less/default.stm Edison the organizational innovator Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:40:38 +0000 34 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2010/2770757.htm Radiolab: Pinpointing the Placebo Effect Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:39:40 +0000 33 http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/18 Marketplace: The price of free Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:05:15 +0000 32 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/01/04/pm-price-of-free-q/ Interview on CBC with author of Perfrect Rigor on Grigori Perelman who proved the Poincaré Conjecture Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:33:21 +0000 31 http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/09-10/qq-2009-12-12.html#4 Backbone of complex networks of corporations: The flow of control, J.B. Glattfelder, S. Battiston Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:57:53 +0000 30 http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0878 Who needs science? Lawmakers mull cell phone warnings Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:23:11 +0000 29 http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/12/who-needs-science-lawmakers-mull-cell-phone-warnings.ars Presentation Summary "High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook" Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:44:53 +0000 28 http://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/presentation-summary-high-performance-at-massive-scale-lessons-learned-at-facebook/ FASTRA II: the world's most powerful desktop supercomputer Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:34:14 +0000 27 http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/ Bits: A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:34:47 +0000 26 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/a-day-in-the-life-of-nytimescom/ De-anonymizing Social Networks by: Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:16:08 +0000 25 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf Climate change and the psyche, why science alone is not sufficient Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:03:11 +0000 24 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2746165.htm Is Global Warming Unstoppable? Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:07:33 +0000 23 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123083704.htm How David Beats Goliath Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:58:17 +0000 22 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell Very nice photos of the LHC and experiments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:55:31 +0000 21 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_ready_to.html Wireless electricity is real. Very nice demonstrationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/619 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:07:10 +0000 20 http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/619 Les préservatifs, une arme contre le réchauffement Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:38:10 +0000 19 http://www.tdg.ch/preservatifs-arme-contre-rechauffement-2009-11-18 Iceotope Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:59:51 +0000 18 http://www.iceotope.com/technology/ The Coming Nuclear Crisis (might not what you think it is) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:45:38 +0000 17 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24414/ you Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:27:01 +0000 16 http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48444-you-dont-know-jack-about-software-maintenance/fulltext An alternative approach for net neutrality is proposed Mon, 16 Nov 2009 7:16 +0000 15 http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/1562147/an-alternative-approach-net-neutrality-proposed New York Times: The Price of Free Mon, 16 Nov 2009 7:01 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/magazine/15FOB-Phenomenon-t.html?_r=1 NoSQL Ecosystem Mon, 16 Nov 2009 2:21 +0000 14 http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2009/11/09/nosql-ecosystem/ On the media: Oopsies! Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:17 +0000 13 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/11/13/05 The sound of high winds: the effect of atmospheric stability on wind turbine sound and microphone noise Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:49 +0000 12 http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/294294104 David Pogue says "Simplicity sells" Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:40 +0000 11 http://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_says_simplicity_sells.html On the media: Growing Neutrality Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 10 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/09/25/04 YouTube's Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/youtube-bandwidth/ More looks, more screens Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 9 http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=113078 On the media: News Ex Machina Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 8 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/10/30/04 The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 7 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/ Colbert report with airtime for the LHC and physics Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-january-28-2010-david-gergen Lee Smolin on science and democracy Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 6 http://www.ted.com/talks/lee_smolin_on_science_and_democracy.html Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 5 http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_war.html Cool new CD of "They Might Be Giants": "Here comes the science" with nice you tube video clips Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 4 http://www.theymightbegiants.com/ If you like Lego and the good old c64/atari/spectrum era Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 2 http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html Food Inc. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 5:39 +0000 1 http://www.foodincmovie.com/