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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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