Another great video, payback from my dad. Welcome to the singularity. Apologies that the music is 9 years behind the video.

A wonderful animation about string theory, by Rob Bryanton. Looks like he has a book to go with it. Following are the dimensions, with his visual descriptions in parentheses. Not sure if these names are right, he just describes the visuals. Each dimension is actually “twisting and turning in the dimension above” like a Mobius [...]

My friend Jess Allen just posted this Economist article that I just can’t believe: …washing with soap and water makes people view unethical activities as more acceptable and reasonable than they would if they had not washed themselves. Previous studies had shown that feelings of disgust led to more moral behavior — the subjects wanted [...]