tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17434294719586465332024-03-08T16:05:23.669+01:00My Ivory TowerA depository of interesting ideas that fascinate me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743429471958646533.post-79522383014885643752012-07-12T15:41:00.000+02:002013-11-07T11:48:37.461+01:00Interesting links<span style="font-size: 180%;"><b>Comics.</b></span><br />
"I'm inclined to think of comics as a kind of temporal map, a way of substituting space for time, of mapping out a temporal progression in 2-D or 3-D space."<br />
~ <a href="http://abstrusegoose.com/">Abstruse Goose</a><br />
~ <a href="http://achewood.com/">Achewood</a><br />
~ <a href="http://basicinstructions.net/">Basic Instructions</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.dilbert.com/">Dilbert</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.php">Dinosaur Comics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/">DOGHOUSEDIARIES</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.drawuntilitsfunny.com/">Draw Until It's Funny</a><br />
~ <a href="http://thisisindexed.com/">Indexed</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.pbfcomics.com/">PBF Comics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/aboutcomics.html">Piled Higher and Deeper</a><br />
~ <a href="http://questionablecontent.net/">Questionable Content</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/">Saturday Morning Breakfast Club</a><br />
~ <a href="http://wondermark.com/">Wondermark</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/">xkcd</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><b>Current Affairs and History.</b></span><br />
"News is history shot on the wing."<br />
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~ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/">BBC</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.dw-world.de/">Deutsche Welle</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.economist.com/">Economist.com</a><br />
~ <a href="http://information.dk/">Information.dk</a><br />
~ <a href="http://ing.dk/">Ingeniøren</a><br />
~ <a href="http://politiken.dk/">Politiken.dk</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/">Newseum</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.reason.com/">Reason Magazine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters.com</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.history.com/">The History Channel</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a><br />
~ <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/us">The Wall Street Journal</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.time.com/time/">TIME</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">World History: HyperHistory</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 180%;">Inter-disciplinary.</span></b><br />
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."<br />
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~ <a href="http://www.3quarksdaily.com/">3quarksdaily</a><br />
~ <a href="http://academicearth.org/">Academic Earth</a><br />
~ <a href="http://kruel.co/">Alexander Kruel</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.aleph.se/andart/">Anders Sandberg</a><br />
~ <a href="http://andrewgelman.com/">Andrew Gelman</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.aldaily.com/">Arts and Letters Daily -- Ideas, Criticism, Debate</a><br />
~ <a href="http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/">Azimuth</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.bakadesuyo.com/">Barking Up the Wrong Tree</a><br />
~ <a href="http://bigthink.com/">Big Think</a><br />
~ <a href="http://boingboing.net/">Boing Boing</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/">Butterflies and Wheels</a><br />
~ <a href="http://crookedtimber.org/">Crooked Timber</a><br />
~ <a href="http://delanceyplace.blogspot.com/">delanceyplace</a><br />
~ <a href="http://acko.net/">acko.net</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.edge.org/">EDGE</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.extraordinary-claims.com/">Extraordinary Claims</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.gwern.net/">Gwern</a><br />
~ <a href="http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.dk/">Ideas</a><br />
~ <a href="http://squid314.livejournal.com/">Jackdaws</a><br />
~ <a href="http://jgmatheny.org/">Jason Gaverick Matheny</a><br />
~ <a href="http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.dk/">JLOUIS Ramblings</a><br />
~ <a href="http://johnhawks.net/weblog">John Hawk's Weblog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.khanacademy.org/">Khan Academy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/">Marginal Revolution</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog">Matt Ridley</a><br />
~ <a href="http://mccabism.blogspot.com/">McCabism</a><br />
~ <a href="http://menghusblog.wordpress.com/">Meng Hu's Blog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://mindsarentmagic.wordpress.com/">Minds Aren't Magic</a><br />
~ <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm">MIT OpenCourseWare</a><br />
~ <a href="http://dmytry.blogspot.dk/">Mostly Polynomial</a><br />
~ <a href="http://noexcuselist.com/everything">No Excuse</a><br />
~ <a href="http://occidentalascent.wordpress.com/">Occidentalist</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/">Project Syndicate</a><br />
~ <a href="http://rationalfuturist.com/">Rational Futurist</a><br />
~ <a href="http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/">Rationally Speaking</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/">ribbonfarm</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.roughtype.com/">Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/">SEAN CARROLL</a><br />
~ <a href="http://seedmagazine.com/">Seed Magazine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/">Shtetl-Optimized</a><br />
~ <a href="http://skepticblog.org/">SkepticBlog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://smithsonian.com/">Smithsonian.com</a><br />
~ <a href="http://stackexchange.com/">Stack Exchange</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/">Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.ted.com/">TED: Ideas Worth Spreading</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.prospect.org/">The American Prospect</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.theamericanscholar.org/">The American Scholar</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.samharris.org/blog/">The Blog: Sam Harris</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.human-nature.com/">The Human Nature Review</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/ias-letter">The Institute Letter</a><br />
~ <a href="http://andymckenzie.blogspot.dk/">The Mentaculus</a><br />
~ <a href="http://rationalconspiracy.com/">The Rationalist Conspiracy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://thesmartset.com/default.aspx">The Smart Set</a><br />
~ <a href="http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/">Three-Toed Sloth</a><br />
~ <a href="http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/index.asp">Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies</a><br />
~ <a href="http://unenumerated.blogspot.dk/">Unenumerated</a><br />
~ <a href="http://videolectures.net/">VideoLectures</a><br />
~ <a href="http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/">Why Evolution is True</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.wikipedia.com/">Wikipedia</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.wired.com/about/blogs">Wired.com: Blogs</a><br />
~ <a href="http://youarenotsosmart.com/">You Are Not So Smart</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/edu">YouTube - Edu</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><b>People I know.</b></span><br />
~ <a href="http://gssq.blogspot.dk/">Balderdash</a><br />
~ <a href="http://econstudentlog.wordpress.com/">Econstudentlog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.emilkirkegaard.dk/">Emil Kirkegaard</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><b>Philosophy.</b></span><br />
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusions is called a philosopher."<br />
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~ <a href="http://certaindoubts.com/">Certain Doubts</a><br />
~ <a href="http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/">Experimental Philosophy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.governmentisgood.com/index.php">Government is Good</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.logicmatters.net/">Logic Matters</a><br />
~ <a href="http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/">PEA Soup</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.philosophyetc.net/">Philosophy, et cetera</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.philosophersimprint.org/">Philosophers' Imprint</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.philosophicallexicon.com/">philosophicallexicon.com</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.philosophynow.org/">Philosophy Now</a><br />
~ <a href="http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/">PhilSci Archive</a><br />
~ <a href="http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/">Practical Ethics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints.html">The Anthropic Preprint Archive</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/">The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.philosophersnet.com/">The Philosopher's Magazine Online</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 180%;">Science, Mathematics and Technology.</span></b><br />
"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."<br />
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~ <a href="http://plus.maths.org/">+plus magazine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/">A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering</a><br />
~ <a href="http://jliszka.github.io/">A Gentleman and a Scalar</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/">Accelerating Future</a><br />
~ <a href="http://technews.acm.org/">ACM TechNews</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.americanscientist.org/">American Scientist</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ryanod/">Analysis of Boolean Functions</a><br />
~ <a href="http://physics.aps.org/">APS Physics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.askamathematician.com/">Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx">Astronomy.com</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.bbsonline.org/view-ROOT.html">BBSPrints Archive</a><br />
~ <a href="http://betterexplained.com/">BetterExplained</a><br />
~ <a href="http://engineerguy.com/">Bill Hammack</a><br />
~ <a href="http://bitcoinmagazine.com/">Bitcoin Magazine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://brainethics.org/">Brain Ethics</a> <br />
~ <a href="http://collectivelyunconscious.wordpress.com/">Collectively Unconscious</a><br />
~ <a href="http://alexey.radul.name/">Conversations</a><br />
~ <a href="http://darkenergydetectives.org/">Dark Energy Detectives</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html">DataGenetics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/">Discover Blogs</a><br />
~ <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/">Discover Magazine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/">Discovery Channel</a><br />
~ <a href="http://news.discovery.com/">Discovery News</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.empiricalzeal.com/">Empirical Zeal</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.ericaklarreich.com/">Erica Klarreich</a><br />
~ <a href="http://errorstatistics.com/">Error Statistics Philosophy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://eventuallyalmosteverywhere.wordpress.com/">Eventually Almost Everywhere</a><br />
~ <a href="http://evoanth.wordpress.com/">EvoAnth</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.epjournal.net/">Evolutionary Psychology</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry">Evolutionary Psychiatry</a><br />
~ <a href="http://fqxi.org/community">FQXi Community</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/">Frontiers</a><br />
~ <a href="http://pentadecathlon.com/lifeNews/index.phphttp://pentadecathlon.com/lifeNews/index.php">Game of Life News</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.gapminder.org/">Gapminder</a><br />
~ <a href="http://gcbias.org/">gcbias</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.genomesunzipped.org/">Genomes Unzipped</a><br />
~ <a href="http://georgemdallas.wordpress.com/">georgemdallas</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/">Gizmag</a><br />
~ <a href="http://healthyalgorithms.com/">Healthy Algorithms</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/">HowStuffWorks</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com/">Human Biological Diversity</a><br />
~ <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/">IEEE Spectrum</a><br />
~ <a href="http://improbable.com/projects/hair/hair-club-top.html">Improbable Research</a><br />
~ <a href="http://infoprog.blogspot.dk/">Information Processing</a><br />
~ <a href="http://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/">Inside F#</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.evidencebasedcryonics.org/">Institute for Evidence-Based Cryonics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/">Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/">it is NOT junk</a><br />
~ <a href="http://jeremykun.com/">Jeremy Kun</a><br />
~ <a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/">Lambda the Ultimate</a><br />
~ <a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/">lanl.arXiv.org e-Print archive mirror</a><br />
~ <a href="http://logicaltightrope.com/">Logical Tightrope</a><br />
~ <a href="http://maximum-entropy-blog.blogspot.nl/">Maximum Entropy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/">Medical Hypotheses</a><br />
~ <a href="http://medicalxpress.com/">Medical XPress</a><br />
~ <a href="http://metamodern.com/">Metamodern</a><br />
~ <a href="http://michaelnielsen.org/">Michael Nielsen</a><br />
~ <a href="http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/">Mind Your Decisions</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/">MIT Technology Review</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.nanowerk.com/">Nanowerk</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/">National Geographic</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.nature.com/index.html">Nature.com</a><br />
~ <a href="http://theness.com/neurologicablog">NeuroLogica Blog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/">Not Even Wrong</a>
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~ <a href="http://profmattstrassler.com/">Of Particular Significance</a><br />
~ <a href="http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/">Panaceia or Hygeia</a><br />
~ <a href="http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php">PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations</a><br />
~ <a href="http://phys.org/">Phys.org</a><br />
~ <a href="https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/">Physics arXiv blog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/">Physics Buzz</a><br />
~ <a href="http://physicsworld.com/">Physics World</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.plosone.org/">PlosOne</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/">Popular Mechanics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/">Preposterous Universe</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.plos.org/">Public Library of Science</a><br />
~ <a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/">Quanta Magazine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.quantumdiaries.org/">Quantum Diaries</a><br />
~ <a href="http://quantumfrontiers.com/">Quantum Frontiers</a><br />
~ <a href="http://martinperl.com/">Reflections on Physics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/">Science-Based Medicine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/">ScienceBlogs</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.sciencegist.com/">ScienceGist</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/">Science Daily</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/">ScienceDirect</a><br />
~ <a href="http://scienceline.org/">ScienceLine</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/">ScienceMag</a><br />
~ <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/">ScienceNews</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.sciam.com/">Scientific American</a><br />
~ <a href="http://scistarter.com/">SciStarter</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.scitechdaily.com/">SciTech Daily Review</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/">Sentient Developments</a><br />
~ <a href="http://blog.sethroberts.net/">Seth's Blog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://simplesciencefitness.com/">Simple Science Fitness</a><br />
~ <a href="http://simplystatistics.org/">Simply Statistics</a><br />
~ <a href="http://space.com/">Space.com</a><br />
~ <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/">Stack Overflow</a><br />
~ <a href="http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/">Tanya Khovanova's Math Blog</a><br />
~ <a href="http://technewsdaily.com/">Tech News Daily</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/">The Daily Galaxy</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/eye/toc-sub.htm">The Joy of Visual Perception</a><br />
~ <a href="http://ecodevoevo.blogspot.it/">The Mermaid's Tale</a><br />
~ <a href="http://dabacon.org/pontiff/">The Quantum Pontiff</a><br />
~ <a href="http://trenchesofdiscovery.blogspot.co.uk/">The Trenches of Discovery</a><br />
~ <a href="http://theoreticalminimum.com/">Theoretical Minimum</a><br />
~ <a href="http://agtb.wordpress.com/">Turing's Invisible Hand</a><br />
~ <a href="http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/">Twisted Oak Studios</a><br />
~ <a href="http://ubiquity.acm.org/">Ubiquity</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/">Universe Today</a><br />
~ <a href="http://westhunt.wordpress.com/">West Hunter</a><br />
~ <a href="http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.dk/">Whole Health Source</a><br />
~ <a href="http://windowsontheory.org/">Windows on Theory</a><br />
~ <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/">Wired Science</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0