Who’s happy and why?
Sometimes my hunger for new data sets gets the best of me. After staring at Adrian White’s map of global happiness, I just had to… Read More »Who’s happy and why?
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Roger Penrose, only 550 years behind Islamic artisans
It’s very easy to cover a flat surface with a regular pattern of geometric shapes – in mathematics, this set of problems is referred to… Read More »Roger Penrose, only 550 years behind Islamic artisans
Free Kareem, and everyone else illegally imprisoned in Egypt
A court in Egypt sentenced blogger Kareem Sulaiman to four years in prison for “inciting hatred of Islam” and insulting President Hosni Mubarak. Kareem isn’t… Read More »Free Kareem, and everyone else illegally imprisoned in Egypt
The good part of yesterday…
The bad part of yesterday – some guy poked me in the eye with a sharp needle. And I paid for the privilege. The good… Read More »The good part of yesterday…
Online activism, from Brazzaville to Bahrain…
The civil unrest in Guinea is provoking discussion all over the African continent about the potential for change, specifically for the potential to remove aging… Read More »Online activism, from Brazzaville to Bahrain…
Pitchfork media, Tunisia, Tatooine and me
It’s hard to know what to expect when you get an interview request from Pitchfork Media. After all, the Pitchfork folks are the cooler-than-thou indie… Read More »Pitchfork media, Tunisia, Tatooine and me