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David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Feb 3, 2010

A neurological approach to beauty

Very interesting collaboration between a museum and a neruology lab to start the discussion on why we think things are beautiful.

http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1409

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Feb 3, 2010

Surveillance status in the UK goes up a notch — we are unsurprised

Now we gets eyes-in-the-sky…

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Feb 22, 2010

Excellent television : Being Human

It takes exceptional writing to take the shoe-in series villain (Kemp) and turn him into one of my favourite characters (beaten only by Nena and Annie). It turns out that his views of each type of non-human, regardless of how he came by them, turn out to be the most…

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Feb 16, 2010

Excellent essay on the state of democracy in the US

Everyone with even a passing interest in national politics in the current era should read this.

Some quotes:

“But the tea-party citizens are under the misapprehension that democratic governing is supposed to be the same as democratic…

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Feb 6, 2010

In which the author points out another way he is slightly odd…

I discovered yesterday that the entire back catalogue of In Our Time is now available to listen to.

Now, almost everyone falls into one of two camps about this news. Either they would not care or they would think it was…

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Feb 2, 2010

Some videos you may find interesting

Clay Shirkey (rapidly becoming one of my favourite speakers) on how so-called “information overload” is really just lack highlighting how real-world social filtering hasn’t progressed very much online (yet) …