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] Stanley Kubrick, May 14, 1965

Kubrick really was a genius. Product placement in one of the greatest pieces of visual art in the 20th century.

(via claytoncubitt)

Academia vs Business

For instance, the neuroscientists Marc Changizi and Shinsuke Shimojo have demonstrated that the vast majority of characters in 115 different writing systems are composed of three distinct strokes, which likely reflect the sensory limitations of cells in the retina. (As Dehaene observes, “The world over, characters appear to have evolved an almost optimal combination that can easily be grasped by a single neuron.”) The moral is that our cultural forms reflect the biological form of the brain; the details of language are largely a biological accident.

] via Jonah Lehrer at the Frontal Cortext

Wired covering developments in video DSLRs.

What’s significant is that this is the technology going mainstream in awareness. This is a Good Thing as it legitimizes DSLRs as an acquisition medium.

I suggest the two main value disputes in the world are rich vs. poor and family vs. community priorities.  It is ironic that the cultures like Russia with values focused on competing against other communities lost the last big community conflict, the Cold War.  Have China, Korea, Japan, etc. learned their lesson about over-centralization, enough to win the next big conflict?

] Robin Hanson via Overcoming Bias