These posts have been a little deeper than I usually like to get in blog posts. I’ll be back Monday to lighten the mood. Or maybe Freddy Mercury can do that. Here’s Ralph Waldo Emerson from his essay on prudence: And now, Queen:
Dr. Albert Schweitzer: And The Doors:
I’m going to be at a conference in Gatineau for the rest of week so the next couple days I’m just going to post some of my favourite little things I’ve read. Little tidbits that I’ve read here and there and that made me stop for a second. And maybe a song or two that [...]
Life is getting way too busy. Check out this photographer known only as JR who recently won TED’s $100,000 annual prize. I particularly like this photo. I lived in the Rio de Janeiro for a while and it’s easy to forget that those shacks house families, children and communities.
It’s amazing how even man-made machines look and act like animals. This is a short video of the destruction of Lakeshore Blvd bridge in the Toronto over the course of a few days. Watch it in HD! (source: daily dose of imagery) Bridge Eaters from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.
If you’re in Montreal you can catch Jason Collett tonight at Il Motore. Torontonians can catch him November 11 at Church of the Redeemer.
Oh man! I dream of attending the kind of schools Ken Robinson dreams about. He sees education for what it really is and, more importantly, for what it really should be. (via: Brain Pickings)
Dan Gilbert, of TED talk fame, has an interesting article in the New York Times about magic numbers. The basic idea is that there are true magic numbers in math like pi, the Fibonacci sequence etc., but we also have magic numbers that we fixate on because of our physiology or because of something somebody [...]
It’s World Statistics Day. Not doing it for you? What if I tell you that the best way to celebrate is by drinking Guinness. One of the most famous and widely-used statistical tests, Student’s t-test, was invented by Guinness’ head brewer William Gosset in 1908 to help him cultivate only the finest barley. Given that [...]
Lately, I’ve been noticing an epidemic of a certain kind of behaviour. I don’t think it’s an epidemic per se, just that I’m keyed into to noticing people who can’t see the big picture–thinking ‘meta’, I call it. The OED describes meta (which is a prefix for words) as meaning: beyond, about. Wikipedia tells me [...]
