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Copy this Yingzi
"I've attempted in this sketch to lay out, by analogy, the nature and structure of the Chinese writing system."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 chinese · language · kanji · english · japanese · interesting · linguistics
http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm? - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Right Brain vs Left Brain | The Daily Telegraph
"The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 psychology · test · brain · interesting · neurology · neuroscience · mind
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Translator's Responsibility
"Thus the 'young woman' in Hebrew metamorphosed into a 'virgin' in Greek—and she has remained a virgin ever since in translations across the world. The notion of 'virgin birth' was born, thanks to a mistranslation."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 translation · linguistics · book · books · publishing · essay · interesting
http://accurapid.com/journal/18review.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Full Disclosure: World's most powerful supercomputer goes online (fwd)
"This doesn't seem to have received much attention, but the world's most powerful supercomputer entered operation recently."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 technology · botnet · security · news · supercomputer · perspective · interesting · hacking · globalization
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Aug/0520.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this "Pravda" means both "truth" and "justice"
"Every time the word "pravda" comes to my mind, I am exhilarated by its stunning beauty. Such a word is not, apparently, to be found in any [other?] European language. Apparently, it is only in Russian that "truth" and "justice" are called by the same wor
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 pravda · russian · language · linguistics · history · russia · interesting
http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/pravda-istina-e.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn't That Special? | Three-Toed Sloth
"Abusing linear regression makes the baby Gauss cry. Fitting a line to your log-log plot by least squares is a bad idea."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 statistics · power_law · regression · distribution · goodness-of-fit · scale · psychology · sociology · reference · interesting
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/2007/06/15/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Wronger Than Wrong: Scientific American on string theory (2006)
"In some extreme cases, this theory that culture shapes the way science is conducted is right. In the mid-19th century, physicians discovered that slaves suffered from drapetomania, or the uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery..."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · creationism · debate · evolution · interesting · philosophy · review · science · theory · logic · citanka
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=00028C98-6F5C-152E-A9F183414B7F0000 - cached - mail it - history
Copy this JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 anthropology · earth · education · reference · society · visualization · maps · mapping · history · SCIENCE · mankind · evolution · interesting · genetics · biology
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this flickrvision (beta)
Flickr geotagged images in real-time on a map
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 flickr · photos · 写真 · interesting · AJAX · web_2.0 · tools · visualization · photographs · photography · mashup · map · cartography · gallery · geotagging
http://flickrvision.com/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Does God Play Dice? - Professor Stephen Hawking
"Many scientists are like Einstein, in that they have a deep emotional attachment to determinism. Unlike Einstein, they have accepted the reduction in our ability to predict, that quantum theory brought about."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 lecture · hawking · quantum_physics · interesting · determinism · history · einstein · black_holes
http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice2.html - cached - mail it - history
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