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William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle
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Nick Bostrom: Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you think they are
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Geek Quote of the Day
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via The Great Geek Manual by PipedreamerGrey
If the database is the shape of knowledge in our time, then the definitive act of mediated communication is the data dump. So it is not surprising that the generation that has made the mash-up its prime aesthetic form has produced the data dump. But to put it this way is not to congratulate Wikileaks—at least not without considerable ambivalence. It's to lament the coming of a certain—shall we say generational?—style of exposé. Wikileaks is the Facebook of whistle blowing.
- - "Everything Is Data, but Data Isn't Everything" by Todd Gitlin, December 7, 2010.
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Geek Quote of the Day
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Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there's innovation ahead
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Geek Quote of the Day
Geek Quote of the Day
via The Great Geek Manual by PipedreamerGrey
The notion of complete self-sufficiency of any item of finite knowledge is the fundamental error of dogmatism. Every such item derives its truth, and its very meaning, from its unanalyzed relevance to the background which is the unbounded Universe. Not even the simplest notion of arithmetic escapes this inescapable condition for existence.
- - "Essays in Science and Philosophy" by Alfred North Whitehead, 1947.
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Geek Quote of the Day
Geek Quote of the Day
via The Great Geek Manual by PipedreamerGrey
The job of science is to deliver reality back to us, not the other way around, and instead of trying to convince people to believe what they say, I would challenge scientists to engage citizens in the process of critical curiosity through thinking scientifically. Scientific facts are being disproven and proven again all the time. The most important thing is not to get the answers right but to be willing to ask the questions, even if the results are not quite what you expected.
- - "The importance of thinking scientifically" by Anne Toomey, April 1st, 2011.
Originally posted to Science for Citizens.
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James Watson: The double helix and today's DNA mysteries
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