"Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled against one Charles R. Grady, who claims that Doritos are of such a shape and rigidity that they damaged his throat. Grady had been trying to introduce as evidence a study done by a former Pitt chemistry professor that purportedly calculated the exact chewing force-to-saliva ratio necessary for safely swallowing the chips."

every step of the mcdonald's fry process leads to taste dividends

imagery from eyes is sparse, much of our visual field is hallucinated by the brain

vaccines

neurons that fire in given places (via blackbeltjones)

"A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one"

stuart kauffman: "The biosphere self consistently co-constructs itself into its every changing, unstatable Adjacent Possible."

insanely dense chart of all metabolic processes, with krebs cycle in the middle

dreaming about defaults

large data sets lead to less models / theory

The Institute For Figuring is an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques.

B flat

new lovid project

email forward space gossip

the next big thing

new yorker piece on the Piraha, a tribe who don't seem to exhibit recursion (an essential part of the minimalist program)

pokémon episode which caused widespread seizures; "Japan's Fire Defense Agency reported that a total of 685 children (310 boys, 375 girls) were taken to hospitals by ambulances." (via deeper wizardishungry link)

Bill Nye song by "L L Bloo J" via julie

CV of Quantum Physicist

multi-dimensional theory

dynamic design, based on cellular automata

video from Frank Werblin's hypothesis on how sparse the brain's image processing is