Archive for the ‘ temporal/spatial compression ’ Category
this is my brief thought on wikipedia. as someone who reads an almost ungodly amount of it, I think that I am distinctly more qualified to comment on it than any random sampling. such as that one study which I can’t be bothered to find a link to now. Jaron Lanier says that “reading a Wikipedia [ READ MORE ]
this is for another class; I am posting this on here for the sake of convenience when giving a seminar this week. these are ads showing the rhetoric of time/space compression as presented by telecommunications companies. they are somewhat relevant to this class as well! [ READ MORE ]
One of the most mysterious and wonderful things about physics for me is the ‘electromagnetic spectrum.’ I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that this huge spectrum of divergent phenomena — the light we see, the radio we hear, the TV we watch, the magnetism we feel, the microwaves that cook our food, et cetera [ READ MORE ]