TED: Moral Operating System
At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more — and more about each other — than ever before. Drawing the audience into a philosophical...
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How We Can Use Microeconomics to Describe System Interaction [Tech Talk]
This is an interesting Google Tech Talk by Dr. Azzopardi on how microeconomics can be used to describe user behaviour. [Via reddit]
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Punch Card Programming
How did punch card systems work? Professor Brailsford delves further into the era of mainframe computing with this hands-on look at punch cards. [Via Computerphile]
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Tooth Fairy Tooth Transport
Jeff Highsmith figured that with the rise in population the Tooth Fairy was no longer able to visit all the children to collect teeth. So he installed a pneumatic transport system to transport the...
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Why is the Solar System Flat?
In this episode of Minutephysics Henry explains why our solar system is flat. [via minutephysics]
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Evolution of the Playstation [Infographic]
A couple of months ago we featured the evolution of the Playstation controller. This infographic goes one step further and shows the evolution of the whole Playstation system. Thanks Frankie for the...
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The Ebola Virus Explained
What does the Ebola virus actually do in your body? Why is it so dangerous and why does it kill so many people? We take a look at the apocalyptic war that rages in the body after an infection by the...
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Measles Explained
Everybody is talking about Measles – but what does the virus actually do in the body? Is it really so harmful that you need a vaccination? We go deep into the body of an infected person and see what...
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Could the Firefly Universe Exist?
Firefly takes place in an incredibly complicated star system. But it probably couldn’t exist, because physics. [via scishowspace]
View ArticleTo Scale: The Solar System
On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe. A film by Wylie...
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