Braintrust

Refreshingly open about what we do not know yet, and some beautiful examples about the dangers of "mindless" back projection.

Life without heart beat

Heart Stop Beating | Jeremiah Zagar from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

This is fascinating also from a philosophical point of view, since so much in our conception of being alive is intimately connected to a heart beat.

The Zen of skydiving

Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.

Internet and the kindness of strangers

Why Internet, i.e. the Internet actually functioning, might actually more be a social phenomenon than a technical one

Meta confirmation bias

How educating yourself makes you even more biased.

The story our probes tell about us

Beautiful photo collage from the many, many picture Spirit has taken:



And here a vivacious, yes even spiritual presentation about the sub-polar rover missions on Mars:
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Flapp flapp

I am currently re-reading Taleb's Black Swan and besides it still being a real treat, I have to admit that I actually not only start grasping finer details during this 2nd read, but that I actually had gotten his central thesis slightly wrong the first time around. So, good books are definitely worth reading twice, especially in case your comprehension of the world is rather slow, like mine.