Off the Grid

Awesome video by the kids and teachers on Lasqueti:

Survey of visualization

This is a great overview of visualizations.

Kids hack tablets

This is super awesome.  Kids in Ethiopia hack their tablets to make the disabled cameras work.  This is why I love kids.  And why I have a password on my devices ;)

Science as Play

An inspiring TED talk:

Wow, love it.

Visualizations of photo-spread on facebook

Visualization is key, especially when dealing with large dynamic data sets.  Here are some cool visualizations of how viral images spread on Facebook.

Viral Photos

Artichoke

IMG_9675.JPG, a photo by scaresothers on Flickr.

Looks like I can post pictures on my blog from here. Neat

Here are some pictures from Lasqueti's Fall fair this year:

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

4D imagery

Wow, these 4-D rotating images by Jason Hise are so beautiful.  Especially apt, since I'm currently studying the complexity of identifying realizing objects in 3D from a 2D line representation.  I suspect I enjoy these so much for the same reason that I love Escher's drawings that bend the rules in 3D reality.  Yum!

Here is a poem all about the halting problem.  Who knew??

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loopsnoop.html

crochet, recursion and science

This is the second time I've seen crochet used to model complex structures.  Check it out, using crochet to model cloud formation.
http://io9.com/5876510/artist-uses-crochet-to-create-scientifically-accurate-fractal-clouds

And in this Ted talk, Margaret Wertheim uses crochet to explain complex mathematical "shapes"
http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_wertheim_crochets_the_coral_reef.html

Banach-Tarski

Tee Hee :)

Cantor and Infinity

A quick look at Cantor's contribution to our idea of infinity.