The Hunt for the Ultimate Time Theory
SAN DIEGO a One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time?
HereAat the annual meetingAof the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he gave a presentation on the arrow of time, scientists stopped him in the hallway to tell him what big fans they were of his work.
Carroll sat down with Wired.com on Feb. 19 at AAAS to explain his theories and why Marty McFly's adventure could never exist in the real world, where time only goes forward and never back.
.:on to the interview at wired.com->
The Earth is Flat
After hearing Thomas Dolby’s 1984 album, The Flat Earth, Daniel Shenton became inspired to prove that the earth was flat.
Serving as the current President, The Flat Earth Society was originally formed as the Universal Zetetic Society in 1884, after the Greek word zeteo, "to seek". Zeteticism, Shenton says, emphasises experience and reason over the "trusting acceptance of dogma."
Now known as the International Flat Earth Society, Shenton has brought the organization back to life.AMy ninja please??
Posted: March 2nd, 2010
at 9:00am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,life,science,"ninja",internets,philosophy
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Cabrini-Green - Time Lapse Demolition

The video is pretty self-explanatory, but here’s the text from YouTube that goes along with the video.
Time lapse animation of the demolition of 660 W. Division, one of the last remaining buildings within the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago. Since late 1999, Chicago has been working to replace the old model of isolated low income residences with new, low rise, mixed income communities. As of this posting, there are four more buildings to be demolished (two whites, two reds). For more information, please visitAhttp://www.Cabrini-Green.com
Posted: March 2nd, 2010
at 5:00am by orangemenace
Categories: myninjaplease,youtube,life,architecture,real life news
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Mag Plus
Posted: March 1st, 2010
at 7:13pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: computers,web,design,et cetera
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Designing Financial Services for the Poor
TheAInstitute for Money, Tecnhology and Financial Inclusion has generated a list of Design Principles for Financial Services for the Poor, drawn from a cohort of 20+ research projects they are running around the world:
-Design for social obligation
-Design for social rank
-Flexibility with sanctions
-Structured illiquidity
-Change the iconography, design with local values
-Design for convertibility
-Calculate convertibility
-Design for relative volume, not increment
-Lucky Numbers
-Tranches and Tiers
-Design for Cyclical Events
Download the principlesAhere.
The IMTFI is funded, in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and in 2010 is set to more than double the number of projects around the globe.
Posted: March 1st, 2010
at 6:32pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: business,development
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Jiabao and the Netizens
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao took part in a second annual online chat Saturday with netizens, describing 2010 as "the most complicated year" for the country.
Wen pledges to tame the wild horse that is the housing market as well as increase state spending on medical insurance by 50 percent in 2010. The Premier is looking to reform the educational ranking system and give a sense of "greater dignity" to the Chinese people.
Posted: March 1st, 2010
at 9:00am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: web,politricks
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