Friday, June 8, 2012

check out the solar weather ... nasa's solar dynamics observatory shows the sun in lots of wavelengths

















http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

scrabble about in the small print and you will find links to up-to-the-minute HD images, filtered and then re-integrated in "false" colours, allowing you to see what's going on ...


















http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/f_094_335_193pfss.jpg, for instance

most of whatever else you might want to ask is in the booklet / pdf

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/docs/SDO_Guide.pdf





Monday, May 21, 2012

daniel pink ... fascinating animated run through some counter-intuitive discoveries about what motivates workers and innovators

















http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u6XAPnuFjJc

link provided by lucy at "being of sound mind"

regellers at prince's ... provoking a short meditation on welshness and non-welshness

















i suppose that, from having spent a part of my childhood amongst people with a welsh way of speaking and thinking, i must have become both sensitized and de-sensitized to some aspects of welshness

consequently i was neither dismayed by the people i encountered last week, nor downhearted by the dilapidation of the towns


















indeed, i found myself thinking how much fun it might be to live in a nice little terrace with welsh neighbours on either side ...

tom jones on the one side, perhaps, and catherine zeta-jones on the other !


Sunday, May 20, 2012

bruce hood's "meet your brain" lectures


















http://richannel.org/christmas-lectures/2011/meet-your-brain#/christmas-lectures-2011-bruce-hood--whats-in-your-head

i hadn't realized that the cortex is only three to four millimetres thick !

... and if you're already up to speed with cognitive science and with philosophy then you might enjoy a long interview on a lot of subjects and ideas that he's done quite recently for edge

http://edge.org/conversation/essentialism-