Thursday 12 July 2012

Interesting links

Comics.
"I'm inclined to think of comics as a kind of temporal map, a way of substituting space for time, of mapping out a temporal progression in 2-D or 3-D space."
~ Abstruse Goose
~ Achewood
~ Basic Instructions
~ Dilbert
~ Dinosaur Comics
~ DOGHOUSEDIARIES
~ Draw Until It's Funny
~ Indexed
~ PBF Comics
~ Piled Higher and Deeper
~ Questionable Content
~ Saturday Morning Breakfast Club
~ Wondermark
~ xkcd

Current Affairs and History.
"News is history shot on the wing."

~ BBC
~ Deutsche Welle
~ Economist.com
~ Information.dk
~ Ingeniøren
~ Politiken.dk
~ Newseum
~ Reason Magazine
~ Reuters.com
~ The History Channel
~ The New York Times
~ The Wall Street Journal
~ TIME
~ World History: HyperHistory

Inter-disciplinary.
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

~ 3quarksdaily
~ Academic Earth
~ Alexander Kruel
~ Anders Sandberg
~ Andrew Gelman
~ Arts and Letters Daily -- Ideas, Criticism, Debate
~ Azimuth
~ Barking Up the Wrong Tree
~ Big Think
~ Boing Boing
~ Butterflies and Wheels
~ Crooked Timber
~ delanceyplace
~ acko.net
~ EDGE
~ Extraordinary Claims
~ Gwern
~ Ideas
~ Jackdaws
~ Jason Gaverick Matheny
~ JLOUIS Ramblings
~ John Hawk's Weblog
~ Khan Academy
~ Marginal Revolution
~ Matt Ridley
~ McCabism
~ Meng Hu's Blog
~ Minds Aren't Magic
~ MIT OpenCourseWare
~ Mostly Polynomial
~ No Excuse
~ Occidentalist
~ Project Syndicate
~ Rational Futurist
~ Rationally Speaking
~ ribbonfarm
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
~ SEAN CARROLL
~ Seed Magazine
Shtetl-Optimized
~ SkepticBlog
~ Smithsonian.com
~ Stack Exchange
~ Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science
~ TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
~ The American Prospect
~ The American Scholar
~ The Blog: Sam Harris
~ The Human Nature Review
~ The Institute Letter
~ The Mentaculus
~ The Rationalist Conspiracy
~ The Smart Set
~ Three-Toed Sloth
~ Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies
~ Unenumerated
~ VideoLectures
~ Why Evolution is True
~ Wikipedia
~ Wired.com: Blogs
~ You Are Not So Smart
~ YouTube - Edu

People I know.
~ Balderdash
~ Econstudentlog
~ Emil Kirkegaard

Philosophy.
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusions is called a philosopher."

~ Certain Doubts
~ Experimental Philosophy
~ Government is Good
~ Logic Matters
~ PEA Soup
~ Philosophy, et cetera
~ Philosophers' Imprint
~ philosophicallexicon.com
~ Philosophy Now
~ PhilSci Archive
~ Practical Ethics
~ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
~ The Anthropic Preprint Archive
~ The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
~ The Philosopher's Magazine Online

Science, Mathematics and Technology.
"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

~ +plus magazine
~ A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
~ A Gentleman and a Scalar
~ Accelerating Future
~ ACM TechNews
~ American Scientist
Analysis of Boolean Functions
~ APS Physics
Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist
~ Astronomy.com
~ BBSPrints Archive
~ BetterExplained
~ Bill Hammack
~ Bitcoin Magazine
~ Brain Ethics
~ Collectively Unconscious
~ Conversations
~ Dark Energy Detectives
~ DataGenetics
~ Discover Blogs
~ Discover Magazine
~ Discovery Channel
~ Discovery News
~ Empirical Zeal
~ Erica Klarreich
~ Error Statistics Philosophy
~ Eventually Almost Everywhere
~ EvoAnth
~ Evolutionary Psychology
~ Evolutionary Psychiatry
~ FQXi Community
~ Frontiers
~ Game of Life News
~ Gapminder
~ gcbias
~ Genomes Unzipped
~ georgemdallas
Gizmag
Healthy Algorithms
~ HowStuffWorks
~ Human Biological Diversity
~ IEEE Spectrum
~ Improbable Research
~ Information Processing
~ Inside F#
Institute for Evidence-Based Cryonics
~ Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
~ it is NOT junk
Jeremy Kun
~ Lambda the Ultimate
~ lanl.arXiv.org e-Print archive mirror
~ Logical Tightrope
~ Maximum Entropy
~ Medical Hypotheses
~ Medical XPress
~ Metamodern
~ Michael Nielsen
Mind Your Decisions
~ MIT Technology Review
~ Nanowerk
~ National Geographic
~ Nature.com
~ NeuroLogica Blog
~ New Scientist
~ Not Even Wrong
~ Of Particular Significance
~ Panaceia or Hygeia
~ PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations
~ Phys.org
Physics arXiv blog
~ Physics Buzz
~ Physics World
~ PlosOne
~ Popular Mechanics
~ Preposterous Universe
~ Public Library of Science
~ Quanta Magazine
~ Quantum Diaries
~ Quantum Frontiers
~ Reflections on Physics
~ Science-Based Medicine
~ ScienceBlogs
~ ScienceGist
~ Science Daily
~ ScienceDirect
~ ScienceLine
~ ScienceMag
~ ScienceNews
~ Scientific American
~ SciStarter
~ SciTech Daily Review
~ Sentient Developments
~ Seth's Blog
~ Simple Science Fitness
~ Simply Statistics
~ Space.com
~ Stack Overflow
~ Tanya Khovanova's Math Blog
~ Tech News Daily
~ The Daily Galaxy
~ The Joy of Visual Perception
~ The Mermaid's Tale
The Quantum Pontiff
~ The Trenches of Discovery
~ Theoretical Minimum
Turing's Invisible Hand
~ Twisted Oak Studios
~ Ubiquity
Universe Today
~ West Hunter
~ Whole Health Source
~ Windows on Theory
~ Wired Science