As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.
Month: August 2013
Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
A Dark Pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills.
Source: Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
A Brief Argument Against War in Syria – The Atlantic
The consequences of intervention are unknown because they are unknowable.
injecting bombs and cruise missiles into a civil war probably isn’t the most cost effective way to help people
Source: A Brief Argument Against War in Syria – The Atlantic
The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation | WIRED
Drawing on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, the map shows one dot per person, color-coded by race. That’s 308,745,538 dots in all.
Source: The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation | WIRED
RE: The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
The College-Loan Scandal: Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America – Rolling Stone
The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education – saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy
Source: The College-Loan Scandal: Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America – Rolling Stone
Could a college or university pledge to not raise tuition for 10 years and achieve that goal? What would it need to do and would any be willing to try?