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Very interesting initiative that has digitized many of Newton's notebooks\papers. Not all the notes are easy to decipher though.

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The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness.

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Just the beginning, but a start nonetheless

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Quite a lot of stats to back it with...

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How to lie with statistics, or how surveys can be flawed in a major way...

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Time to reset our imaginations. Wonder what Calvin would've done.

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Radiation dose chart with quite a lot of real life reference points

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Quite a list for sure, and one that is bound to expand. Think of it as a historical snopes.com. Found it all thanks to xkcd - http://xkcd.com/843/

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Has some videos thrown in as demonstrations.

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A very interesting list of experiments that'll make you look & think very differently at yourself and the world around you.

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"Being aware of this can help us avoid falling foul of the most dangerous consequences of cognitive dissonance: believing our own lies." - that's the key.

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Interesting and simple way to look at conditional probability. Would also be interesting to relate it to octopus Paul & his WC 2010 predictions.

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"The question facing every company today, every startup, every non-profit, every project site that wants to attract a community, is how to use data effectively -- not just their own data, but all the data that's available and relevant. Using data effectiv

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"The Invisible Gorilla reveals the numerous ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it's more than a catalog of human failings."

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Brilliant photo

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The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.

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Apparently they may be busy playing games. Too busy to respond to our signals or even create their own. So, looks like now we have to survive the games & not bomb.

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Very interesting case. Living among them would be totally disorienting. Thank goodness we can count.
via http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/05/amazonian-tribes-language-has-no-tenses-numbers-over-five/

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A pretty important verdict that could have a cascading effect on other similar patents. Apparently around 20% of human genes have been patented after all.

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Companion site for the book of the same name.

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