… They two men found each other in the Abbey of St. Florian, an Austrian monastery. They both were there to see the grave of composer Anton Bruckner. Marvin was traveling across Europe, playing concerts. Schuh, who survived the battle of Stalingrad in World War II, was an opera critic in Vienna. …
Cell phones, pagers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth – the wireless revolution is everywhere. Except here.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/quiet.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone
Werner Herzog’s diaries of the making of “Fitzcarraldo”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/books/29maslin.html
Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn’t sexist, and blonds are more attractive.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200706/ten-politically-incorrect-truths-about-human-nature
Continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life
Here’s the conversation I have several times a day with total strangers: Caller: do you use a wired earphone? BP: No. Caller: would it be too much trouble? BP: No. Caller: Wouldnt you be safer? BP: No. Caller: How do you know? BP: Quantum physics; all cancers are caused by mutant strands of DNA. Electromagnetic radiation can’t create mutant strands of DNA unless the frequency is at or higher than the blue limit of the visible spectrum the near-ultraviolet. The frequency of cell phone radiation is about 1 million times too low. Caller: Wow! When did this news break? BP: Albert Einstein let it out in 1905. Robert Millikan, considered to be the world’s top physics experimentalist, spent a decade constructing an experiment to test it. It confirmed Einstein’s theory perfectly. Caller: I’m shocked! Are you sure this is right? BP: Virtually the entire modern world rests on it. Caller: Why am I just hearing about this? BP: Because Sanjay didn’t tell you. We all depend on the news media to keep us informed, and the news media all over the world let us down on this one. And we scientists should have been screaming louder.
http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN11/wn052011.html
Adrian Fisk recently traveled through China asking the young people there to write anything they wanted down on a piece of paper. The results are interesting.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/adrian-fisk-what-are-young-chinese-thinking-about.html
(via kottke.org)
Frame by frame Einzelbildscannung mit dem Müller HM73framescanner – Für den anspruchsvollen Kunden, verwenden wir den neuen und im deutschsprachigem Raum einzigen Framescanner HM73.
The IERS was established as the International Earth Rotation Service in 1987 by the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and it began operation on 1 January 1988. In 2003 it was renamed to International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.
„Wer will, dass die Schule bleibt, wie sie ist, will nicht, dass sie bleibt“: In seinem Buch „Die Pisa-Lüge“ geht Niki Glattauer mit der Bildungspolitik hart ins Gericht. Im wien.ORF.at-Interview sprach er über Lügen, Wünsche und seinen Bruder Daniel.
http://derstandard.at/1313024689109/Der-Hase-mit-den-Bernsteinaugen-Gefaengnis-aus-Gold
But we don’t underestimate kids around here.
Associate professor Anne Trubek argues that handwriting will soon be history, because writing words by hand is a technology that’s just too slow for our times, and our minds. A copy-paste summary from her essay: