Good interview with Andrew Blum on his new book, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, about the physical structure of the Internet.
Tagged with “science”
(10)
-
Physical Structure of the Internet
-
RadioLab: Colors
Last story on this episode blew my mind.
-
The Sound of Young America: George R.R. Martin interview
John Hodgman interviews George R.R. Martin: The Sound of Young America
Tagged with reading interview fantasy science fiction
-
Long Now: Viral Time
Long Now Foundation podcast: What’s time to a virus?
" The number of viruses on Earth is estimated to be 1 followed by 31 zeroes. Small as they are, if you stacked them all up, the stack would reach 100 million light years. They are the planet’s most abundant organism by far. They’re fast. We take decades to reproduce. A flu virus can generate billions of itself in us within hours. And they evolve 10,000 times faster than us, because they’re creatively sloppy about making copies of their genomes, and they readily combine genes among varieties when jointly infecting a cell. Each of us has four trillion viruses on board, in 1,500 all-too-fungible varieties."
-
On Point: David Deutsch And The Beginning of Infinity
WBUR: "Quantum computing genius and Oxford don David Deutsch is a thinker of such scale and audaciousness he can take your breath away. His bottom line is simple and breathtaking all at once.
It’s this: human beings are the most important entities in the universe. Or as Deutsch might have it, in the “multiverse.” For eons, little changed on this planet, he says. Progress was a joke. But once we got the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, our powers of inquiry and discovery became infinite. Without limit.
This hour On Point: David Deutsch and the beginning of infinity."
-
Area 51 ‘Uncensored’: Was It UFOs Or The USSR?
"The child-sized aviators in this craft [that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico] were the result of a Soviet human experimentation program, and they had been made to look like aliens a la Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, and it was a warning shot over President Truman’s bow, so to speak."
Tagged with science technology conspiracy
-
Have We Grown Too Fond Of Technology?
In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Sherry Turkle examines our proclivity for robots, smart phones and social networks, and though far from suggesting we ditch technology, she wonders if we aren’t losing out on human contact in the process.
Tagged with science technology
-
Rachel Sussman : The World’s Oldest Living Organisms (The Long Now Foundation)
Rachel Sussman The Long Now Foundation Nov 15, ‘10, 6:00 PM The World’s Oldest Living Organisms
-
V.S. Ramachandran’s Tales Of The ‘Tell-Tale Brain’
Fresh Air Interview: In ‘The Tell-Tale Brain,’ Ramachandran describes several neurological case studies that illustrate how people see, speak, conceive beauty and perceive themselves and their bodies in 3-D space.
-
Blood Buddies
A follow-up to Radio Lab’s ‘Good Show.’ Mind blowing. Listen to both episodes.