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Archive for November, 2005

Just prepped another podcast from the shoot for the 24×7 film experiment (working title iCollaborated), this one’s with Brad Templeton and Jerry Michalski. We filmed Brad and Jerry down in Menlo Park, it was a breakfast shoot at one of my new favourite hotels (outstanding management and staff, they really know how to deliver a [...]

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The Week In Review

Good read in the in the NYT today, the Baudrillard Q&A. At 76, you are still pushing your famous theory about “simulation” and the “simulacrum,” which maintains that media images have become more convincing and real than reality. All of our values are simulated. What is freedom? We have a choice between buying one car [...]

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The Cube Is Back

I was hiking to the east village this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised when I noticed the cube has returned from the restorers. Today was the first really cold day of the season in NYC however I was happy to peel off my gloves, grab my camera and shoot a quick video. Everyone I know [...]

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Heh, until researchers at Stanford recently figured out an new implementation of optical force clamps, traditional optical trap resolution was insufficient to view activity in realtime at the molecular level. Upon sorting the problem and creating angstrom-level resolution (which is around the size of a hydrogen atom for those keeping score), they had a historical [...]

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Sean Gullette

We all remember Sean from the flick he did with Darren Aronofsky, Pi (get Pi DVD here). But did you know Sean also had other stuff going on in Internet publishing? We did our shoot with Sean for the 24×7 film experiment in NYC. He had so much to say about so many things it’s [...]

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Mouse Phermone Advertisement Songs

Yesterday it was monkey math, today it’s rodent rockers. As it turns out, a study of the ultrasonic vocalisations of mice mouse indicates they sing. Yep, singing male mice, singing to attract females. Timothy E. Holy and Zhongsheng Guo of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology (located in St. Louis, [...]

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Monkey Math

FWIW, a sort of semantic congruity appears to be at work in the brains of monkeys, responsible perhaps for a type of abstract numeric processing. Duke University cognitive neuroscientists have presented findings this week in Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science claiming the neural mechanism underlying numerical perception is evolutionarily [...]

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