Large Hadron Collider is online, Higgs boson be damned
“We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!” And with that tweet, researchers at CERN announced that they did in fact activate the Large Hadron Collider, after quite a long delay and despite warnings of a looming, nefarious Higgs boson. Whether or not we will have had total destruction as an unfortunate result of the device remains to be seen, but should the future find a way to either cease to exist or travel to the past in some time-bending paradox, we only hope linguists and physicists can work together and figure out the proper verb conjugations for this brave new world.
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KPMG Building - Munich
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Google México - Plaza Sesamo :D
Fork in the Road
The fork is an elaborate - and expensive - birthday prank in honor of the 75th birthday of Bob Stane, founder of the Ice House comedy club. Stane said he first mentioned the fork in the road idea 10 years ago to his friend and partner Ken Marshall. But it wasn’t until his week-long birthday celebration, starting Oct. 29, that his friends pulled the surprise.
The wooden fork, is “expertly carved and painted,” to look like metal, Stane said. ”It’s anchored in 2 1/2-feet of concrete and steel. It’s not a public danger - unless someone drives into it.” His friends, in full Caltrans uniform complete with helmets and lights, dug the hole “in dead of night.” (via PS-N))/(indieandyy)
this fork - i’ve seen estimates ranging from 12’ to 18’ tall - appeared in a median in pasadena. it’s made of wood but painted and carved to look like metal. apparently it’s some birthday surprise prank for a
9575 year old. i love the whole thing so much i could burst.Huge & loud literal LOL.
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.” — Carl Sagan (via livejamie)
Mystery Solving Algorithm: Use a Heuristic.
An image Michael Surtees caught of Roger Martin’s presentation at the AIGA conference. (via)
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I can’t stop playing with this.
Brain Makes Good Unconscious Decisions
(via Brain Makes Good Unconscious Decisions | Psych Central News)
Neuroscientists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky received a 2002 Nobel Prize for their 1979 research that argued humans rarely make rational decisions. Since then, this has become conventional wisdom among cognition researchers.
Contrary to Kahnneman and Tversky’s research, Alex Pouget, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, has shown that people do indeed make optimal decisions — but only when their unconscious brain makes the choice.
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The Tetris chair - Le Journal du Geek
