Tags: Ideas, Science, General
Ideas
Soros @ Google - Google CEO Eric Schmidt interviews George Soros.
Economics of the Underbelly - interesting TED talk by Steve Levitt of Freakonomics fame.
Idea Futures - Robin Hanson proposes an alternative model for academic publishing, among other interesting ideas.
The Digital Planet - Douglas Adams, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Steve Pinker. Wait for the introduction (in german) to finish.
Greatest Living Intellectuals of our Time - fairly interesting list of writers.
Inverse Power of Praise - Po Bronson on handling childhood intelligence.
Biofuels: Think Outside The Barrel - Vinod Khosla makes a compelling case for Ethanol at a Tech Talk in Google HQ.
Roger Ebert's Critical Review - Ebert at his best as he rips to shreds the movie La Mujer de Mi Hermano. Caution ! Extremely funny.
Reality a la Scott Adams - Answers to Life, the Universe and everything (that matters) from the creator of Dilbert.
Fight Club as an extension of Calvin & Hobbes - an amazing connection/theory of the movie Fight Club being an extension of the brilliant C&H strip.
Paul Graham on why Nerds Rock! - a nice, analytical article on 'Why Nerds are Unpopular".
Google's IPO - SEC filing- a typically quirky document from Google, especially the Letter from Founders part. More here.
Tags: Ideas, Science, General
Science
Cosma's Notebooks - the Three-Toed Sloth hosts a wealth of information.
Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Tim Gowers edits a compilation of lucid articles from some of the biggest names. To access samples login using username : Guest password: PCM
The Algorithm - Bernard Chazelle, on the new language of the sciences.
Can a biologist fix a radio ? - analogy-based explanation for why biology needs to become more quantitative. (Thanks to Rao for the tip)
Aaronson's Big Numbers - brilliant (and long) article on defining really large numbers especially in context of Theoretical CS.
Mirror Neurons and The Brain in a Vat - V.S.Ramachandran explains the astonishing hypothesis and its consequences.
Feynman's Lecture Plenty of room at the bottom - this is his call for people to think about nanotech, way back in 1959.
Computing Machinery & Intelligence - Alan Turing (1950)- This is Turing's article in Mind where he describes the Turing Test for artificial intelligence machines.
Orignial Bayes Theorem article - by Rev. Bayes
Tags: Ideas, Science, General
General
Grad Tips - Andy Roberts lists some very handy tools that most grad students use.
Community Cricket - TBC style.
Comedy Central - The week's Daily Show and Colbert Report videos without having to YouTube.
I will teach you to be rich ! - Handy personal finance blog.
The Show with ZeFrank - weekDaily Zen.
Chomsky Online - a comprehensive collection of Chomsky's articles, interviews and debates.
MIT's OpenCourseWare - useful resource for students.
Pictorial Perspectives
A Heuristic Viewpoint of Life
Back of the Envelope
Article in the Rock Street Journal about our college rock fest CrossWindz'04
Flume Reports