I always come back to Michal Pollan’s NYT piece called Unhappy Meals —

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html

I always come back to Michal Pollan’s NYT piece called Unhappy Meals —

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html

that is brilliant

I assume adding water makes a big difference in how reflective (and thus more efficient for calibration) the surface is — you cannot see your own reflection in a salt flat…

Regardless:  Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider“Scientists working on the world’s biggest machine are being besieged by
phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next
Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.”Didn’t something similar happen when the microscope was invented?

Perhaps by now, as most people know fashion photographs are manipulated to the point of the model being a mere inspiration for the eventual image, we no longer have to classify this as “unnatural”. The next step in this process is a fully computer generated “photograph”, which interestingly enough seems not at all subject to the same criticisms that this type of image manipulation receives right now, simply because the “source person” was never born. Also think about make-up effects and image manipulation in movies… Gollum…CG actors in games…etc.

Related: in a short piece by everyone’s favorite Senior Maverick at Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly talks about “things that cannot be copied” in an environment where “copies are super abundant and become worthless”.

BETTER THAN FREE

“Even a dog knows you can’t erase something once its flowed on the internet.”