Happy Anniversary TED

It was back in 2006 when TED started to offer their talks online. Five years latter the number of talks has grown from 6 to nearly 1000 videos, and 500 million views. Excellent content, highly recommendable!

3eanuts

“Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters’ expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all.”  3eanuts.

World’s Total CPU Power: One Human Brain

World’s Total CPU Power: One Human Brain | Wired Science | Wired.com. “Our total storage capacity is the same as an adult human’s DNA. And there are several billion humans on the planet.” “To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*1018 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose computers in … Read more

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami – 2011

Google Crisis Response – Join Google and give a hand (and some money too) to Japanese Red Cross. This is a good time to learn a little bit more about tsunamis. Try the National Geographic page on Tsunamis, or the Wikipedia.