links for 2010-07-20

July 20, 2010

Hard to find Why it’s increasingly difficult to make discoveries – and other insights from the science of science. This type of research, studying the science of science, is in fact a field of science itself, and is known as scientometrics. (tags: science)

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links for 2010-07-13

July 13, 2010

Hacking The Price is Right Terry Kniess, a former weatherman with a knack for numbers and seeing patterns, went on The Price is Right and won more than $50,000 in prizes because of an exact bid on his Showcase. His secret? He watched hundreds of hours of the show and discovered its secrets and weaknesses. [...]

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links for 2010-07-05

July 5, 2010

Could Toxoplasma gondii help your country win the World Cup? In the knockout round of this year's tournament, eight out of eight winners so far have been the teams whose countries had higher rates of Toxo infection. (tags: economics biology sport gambling)

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links for 2010-07-02

July 2, 2010

Eye Chart Calendar | WHAT THE COOL A creative mock up created by graphic designer and drummer Andrew Ackroyd that promotes specsavers the opticians.

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links for 2010-07-01

July 1, 2010

Woot : Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot Woot.com CEO Matt Rutledge wrote what may be the funniest "our company has been purchased" mass-email ever in the history of such emails. (tags: business humour amazon email)

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links for 2010-06-18

June 18, 2010

Kill or cure? Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it. (tags: health medicine media science humour news)

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Vuvuzela News

June 18, 2010

Vuvuzelas: The Sun gives them away Ireland bans them Lifehacker tries to silence them. Olybop turns them into a video game.

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links for 2010-06-04

June 4, 2010

Self-Experimentation | Seth Roberts Water reduces weight because its taste is associated with zero calories. So it lowers the running average the brain uses to judge the abundance of calories. Legumes reduce weight because they produce a relatively slow calorie signal. (tags: health dieting experimentation self-tracking)

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links for 2010-06-01

June 1, 2010

Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight Self-experimentation lasting months or years seems to be a good way to generate plausible new ideas. (tags: quantified-self science thinking philosophy psychology exercise experimentation ideas) Why I Do All This Walking, or How Systems Become Fragile – Taleb Nobody in [...]

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links for 2010-05-28

May 28, 2010

The Swinger « Music Machinery The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half (tags: music python audio programming swing)

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