Robots are going to take over the world.
One book at a time...
Courtesy of our friends over at The Proceedings of the Ever So Strange.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Random Thought of the Day
Remember a while back, I posted about the Power of Words.
This post was a little long (I mean, very long) and you probably didn't read it, but here's a great video illustrating everything I hoped you would learn from my "Power of Words" post.
The words we use to describe color actually change the way we see color!
And as a little bonus, here's the RadioLab episode on this very topic:
Abstract things like time, thought, and understanding don't exist unless we have words for thinking about them...
This post was a little long (I mean, very long) and you probably didn't read it, but here's a great video illustrating everything I hoped you would learn from my "Power of Words" post.
The words we use to describe color actually change the way we see color!
And as a little bonus, here's the RadioLab episode on this very topic:
Abstract things like time, thought, and understanding don't exist unless we have words for thinking about them...
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Random Thought of the Day
There are over 120 million Christmas Island Crabs on Christmas Island.
That's not too extraordinary if you consider the fact that the crabs usually spend their time scattered throughout the dense forests on Christmas Island.
But once a year, they make a daring trip from the inland forests to the ocean shores to breed.
120 million crabs is much more impressive when you're watching them crawl across the island's highways and houses...
That's not too extraordinary if you consider the fact that the crabs usually spend their time scattered throughout the dense forests on Christmas Island.
But once a year, they make a daring trip from the inland forests to the ocean shores to breed.
120 million crabs is much more impressive when you're watching them crawl across the island's highways and houses...
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