forty-second TED translation
Ang ninuno ng wika, ni Murray Gell-Mann
TED2007, filmed march 2007, postedjune 2008
Translated into Tagalog by Chris S
Reviewed by Schubert Malbas
astrobiology & mims
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| the search for extraterrestrial life & life-saving drugs sit next to each other |
i have to thank my pharma elective for teaching me to look at mims to list down the costs of each drug. it was my first time to appreciate such a neat book. looking back, the publishers of mims actually turned me down when i applied for a job at their company as mims researcher/writer.
as for my astrobiology book, it was another rescue sale i did at booksale for only 20 pesos; i consider that as rescuing because they'd rather stay with me and be read, rather than collect fungus on a shelf while no one bothers to purchase them. i've never got past chapter 1 because of the pharma reports last week; we'll see if my schedule this week, together with a bit of clinical work from ortho-rheuma-rehab, can accomodate some geek lovin'.
urban water art
This is pretty awesome... I'd say both awesome and pretty.
Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in the Digitalarti Artlab from Digitalarti on Vimeo.
Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in the Digitalarti Artlab from Digitalarti on Vimeo.
The "Water Light Graffiti" is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and share magically in the city.The Water Light Graffiti project is a creation of Antonin Fourneau and his team. The art installation was done in Poitiers, France last July. I can imagine this LED board being installed on the seaside park behind the mall of asia. It's going to be a hit.
un mensaje de señor carl sagan
just months before he died in 1996, author & scientist Carl Sagan wrote a message to all the future colonists of the planet Mars. who knew that just about 16 years later, we're celebrating a major breakthrough towards colonizing our neighboring planet.
somebodies that i used to know
Taking a cue from Eric Whitacre and his fantastic TEDTalk “A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong” at TED2011, Belgian-Aussie singer and songwriter Gotye posted a similar video over last weekend, entitled “Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra.”
Says Gotye from his official YouTube channel:
The video is a mashup of his smash hit “Somebody That I Used To Know” that stitches together the many individuals who’ve posted covers of themselves playing the song. Take out the words from this song, and it's still music to my ears. Beautiful; just beautiful.
Says Gotye from his official YouTube channel:
Reluctant as I am to add to the mountain of interpretations of Somebody That I Used To Know seemingly taking over their own area of the internet, I couldn't resist the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered. Thank you to everyone who has responded to Somebody That I Used To Know via YouTube. It's truly amazing!
The video is a mashup of his smash hit “Somebody That I Used To Know” that stitches together the many individuals who’ve posted covers of themselves playing the song. Take out the words from this song, and it's still music to my ears. Beautiful; just beautiful.
the geek zodiac
Well, apparently there is such a thing as Geek Zodiac! It comes with a cool poster and you can search your zodiac assignment by year of birth. There's also an ongoing comic series featuring the characters; you might as well check that out, since it's pretty neat.
So, what's your sign? (It says that I am an undead/slayer, a soulful transcendental that appreciates the value of all life forms, whatever that means!)
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| the 12 signs of the geek zodiac |
So, what's your sign? (It says that I am an undead/slayer, a soulful transcendental that appreciates the value of all life forms, whatever that means!)
français o español
written french is so much easier compared to spoken french. ugh. all o'them french words sound the same, at least to my untrained ears.
me thinks spanish is straightforward and easier to understand, whether it is written or spoken.
i will learn you both, in due time.
for now, good vibes muna! ;)
me thinks spanish is straightforward and easier to understand, whether it is written or spoken.
i will learn you both, in due time.
for now, good vibes muna! ;)
snowflakes, ferns & dragons
from snowflake, to fern, to dragon:
The interpolation here is made from Koch snowflake to Barnsley's fern, from Barnsley's fern to Heighway's dragon and finally from Heighway's dragon to Koch snowflake (made by jfrusciantetube).
how to make the dragon fractal:
The interpolation here is made from Koch snowflake to Barnsley's fern, from Barnsley's fern to Heighway's dragon and finally from Heighway's dragon to Koch snowflake (made by jfrusciantetube).
how to make the dragon fractal:
why i translate
TED & Global Voices have starkly different themes: TED is generally a global venue for sharing cutting-edge ideas across scientific & artistic disciplines (it can pass off as elitist, truth be told), while Global Voices is a dynamic online citizen media outlet about current events & news stories that traditional media sometimes ignore (a grassroots community with a grassroots orientation).
At the end of the day, however, their missions are one and the same: to spread worthy ideas across borders, including the barrier that is language, in which people are inherently varied.
coke, pop or soda
Edwin Chen posted this interesting post in his blog. Edwin Chen is a data scientist at Twitter.
It shows which parts of the world use the word "coke", "soda", or "pop".
I think I'd like to suggest a corollary to this neat piece of geographical data. How about putting this data alongside a map of the prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 per country? Notice how Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines are filled up with red dots? While most of Africa and China are spared? Would the prevalence of both disease and soft drink actually have a correlation? That'd be something awesome!
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| Coke, soda, or pop? copyright Edwin Chen 2012 |
It shows which parts of the world use the word "coke", "soda", or "pop".
I think I'd like to suggest a corollary to this neat piece of geographical data. How about putting this data alongside a map of the prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 per country? Notice how Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines are filled up with red dots? While most of Africa and China are spared? Would the prevalence of both disease and soft drink actually have a correlation? That'd be something awesome!
florence nightingale's pies
While researching about anesthesiology, I found out that Florence Nightingale was probably the pioneer in critical care medicine, having served as nurse in military camps in the Crimean War in the 1850's.
I also found out that Nightingale was an astute statistician! She was the first woman to be elected into the Royal Statistical Society (in UK) and she later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
If anything, she could very well be called the mother of graphical representation of data. One of her works is this pie chart known as the polar area diagram, the Nightingale rose diagram, or what we now call as the circular histogram.
An intensivist and a statistician at the same time! Wow.
I also found out that Nightingale was an astute statistician! She was the first woman to be elected into the Royal Statistical Society (in UK) and she later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
If anything, she could very well be called the mother of graphical representation of data. One of her works is this pie chart known as the polar area diagram, the Nightingale rose diagram, or what we now call as the circular histogram.
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| florence nightingale's report on the causes of army morbidity circa 1854-1856 (source: Wikipedia) |
An intensivist and a statistician at the same time! Wow.
lost and found
Marco Bagni's short 1-minute videographic on Getting Lost elegantly sums up the philosophy behind a purpose-driven life:
"Getting lost is the only way to find your own path".
I hope you like it as much as I do.
"Getting lost is the only way to find your own path".
I hope you like it as much as I do.
CERN finds Higgs boson
CERN has finally figured it out: the Higgs boson is real.
Higgs bos-whut? PhDComics lays it down.
This is consistent with models predicting the so-called 'God particle', which gives some, but not all, of the mass of other elementary particles in the cosmos.
Two teams of scientists at CERN have confirmed the discovery of a new subatomic particle, which may well be the elusive Higgs boson.
"I can confirm that a particle has been discovered that is consistent with the Higgs boson theory," said John Womersley, chief executive of the UK's Science & Technology Facilities Council. The result is still preliminary, but "it's very strong and very solid," according to Joe Incandela, spokesman for one of the two teams hunting for the Higgs particle (from Russia Today on YouTube).
Higgs bos-whut? PhDComics lays it down.
The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.
Okay, let me quantify that a bit: with a certainty approaching almost 100% that it's not a fluke, CERN researchers have isolated a new particle with a mass of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV at 4.9 σ significance.This is consistent with models predicting the so-called 'God particle', which gives some, but not all, of the mass of other elementary particles in the cosmos.
Two teams of scientists at CERN have confirmed the discovery of a new subatomic particle, which may well be the elusive Higgs boson.
"I can confirm that a particle has been discovered that is consistent with the Higgs boson theory," said John Womersley, chief executive of the UK's Science & Technology Facilities Council. The result is still preliminary, but "it's very strong and very solid," according to Joe Incandela, spokesman for one of the two teams hunting for the Higgs particle (from Russia Today on YouTube).
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