Sam Easterson used to work at the Walker. Here’s what he’s doing now: The Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP) collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public’s capacity to empathize with animals and plants. Now,…
Category: natural world
MIT Media Lab: Personas
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. Here’s…
Flow = Attention deconcentration?
It comes up around nearly every turn. It’s one of the wobbles of life that leads us into such ideas repeatedly: Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process…
Frankie : 3 weeks
Puppy! This is Frankie, Meta’s little sister. She turned 3 weeks old today. Same mother and father, too. Frankie will be joining us soon. Reposted from metapup.com = c
Paris Plages
I just cannot stop watching clips shot with the Canon 5d Mark II, simply for the obvious reason – a still camera shot this motion footage: Paris Plages from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo. = c
Everyone Forever Now
Everyone Forever Now – “Stoop Sitting” from Daniel Mercadante on Vimeo. Watch more = c
Using Nature as a Hitman
The World War 1 Tyrolean Avalanches 1916-1918 Avalanches were used as highly effective weapons during World War 1. This disastrous weapon started when lot’s of snow fell in the Alp’s during the December of 1916. People could tell that the avalanche risk was high. A big avalanche killed 250 soldiers while tumbling down on the…
Yet another small lifeform outsmarting us every minute
From the BBC: We think we have big, sophisticated cities. We are proud of our ability to organize and accomplish common goals. Meanwhile, a single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony,…
Time-lapse
Seems I spend a lot of time shooting, watching and seeking out good examples of time-lapse photography. It moves me. It puts me in a mindset somewhat more aware of the passing of time. I like the way it makes me feel small. That perspective is something I crave. Naturally, I like learning more about…
Reading List : The Black Swan
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book about randomness and uncertainty by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Black Swan theory refers to a large-impact, hard-to-predict and rare event beyond the realm of *normal* expectations or logic. His theory refers to events of large consequence and their dominant role in history….
Overlooked : Slackers in Nature
Earlier this morning, Tim O’Reilly tweeted about this research published in the NYT and I am so completely fascinated and thus fixated on it today: Dr. Dornhaus is breaking new ground in her studies of whether the efficiency of ant society, based on a division of labor among ant specialists, is important to their success….
the power of stats
perspective : technology integration and learning = c
They sure didn’t walk very far…
Last weekend, I watched In the Shadow of the Moon, a documentary put together by Ron Howard about the Apollo missions to the Moon. Like a lot of us, I’ve always been extremely curious about all of these things and in my searching for more and more details, I found the pic below [click on…
oldie but a goodie
Remember this?
Area Man Writes Blog
LITTLE CANADA, MNâ€â€ÂLocal resident Steve Bachman, the self-styled “Bachster†of Internet obscurity, has announced plans to publish a blog. Family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and checkout clerks are bracing themselves for the expected onslaught of hintsâ€â€Âsubtle and not-so-subtleâ€â€Âof the “you ought to check out my blog†variety. Bachman believes that his catchy graphical hook, a…
Cutest Baby Sloth Video Ever
Thanks to Scott for this one. = c