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Friday Fun Link – Scientists Create Video From Brain Waves

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Scientists have figured out a way to create (blurry, impressionistic) video of what a person is watching by scanning their brain waves! This was accomplished by the researchers watching a bunch of YouTube videos and creating a database of which parts of their brain “lit […]

¶ Posted 23 September 2011 § FridayFunLink § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: cool, health, language

Map Porn

I recently discovered an awesome sub-Reddit called r/mapporn which features all kinds of really frickin’ cool maps such as “America 1681“, “Flipping European and North American Cities“, “World Map of Railways“, “Map of Facebook Connections” and I have to stop there or else I’ll just link to all their maps – each one is so […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2011 § Library § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: cool, history, travel, unitedstates, wikipedia

Friday Fun Link – One Day on Earth

A recent documentary features a variety of scenes from all around the world captured on a single day. Here’s the trailer: One Day on Earth – Motion Picture Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo.

¶ Posted 16 September 2011 § FridayFunLink § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, food, health, history, travel

Wisdom Wednesday – Do Happier People Work Harder?

The idea of a connection between happiness and productivity is a discussion I’ve had with a few people at work over the past couple years – some who are in agreement with the idea, some who feel there’s no link between happiness and productivity and some who are uncertain (or haven’t given it much thought […]

¶ Posted 14 September 2011 § Library § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health, orgdevl

What Is Your Favourite “Holy Shit” Fact?

Redditors chime in with their favourite “blow your mind” facts – some serious, some silly. That one about there being no physical (or metaphysical) difference between the atoms in a living creature and non-living inanimate object makes sense on one level but is also sort of stunning when you think about it.

¶ Posted 18 August 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, health

“Snakes on a Pace”

Took today off to go to the Queen City Ex with Shea and Pace. We just got home after nearly 10 hours (!) at the fair. Pace managed to stay awake in the car home but fell asleep one nanosecond after we put him in bed. His mom and dad won’t be far behind him. […]

¶ Posted 04 August 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: saskatchewan

Wisdom Wednesday – The Emphatic Civilisation

This great video makes the case that we haven’t evolved to compete with each other but to empathize with one another. I especially like how it builds the case of how our strongest connections grew from family relationships to tribes to religion-as-extended-family to nation-states-as-extended-family to the natural next step to a worldwide unity of purpose, […]

¶ Posted 03 August 2011 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: atheism, cool, health, history

Alberta’s Got Gas and Sask’s Got a Pharm!

I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail. This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]