Cafe at the End of the Bike Path: August 2017

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Cosmography of the Local Universe

A dynamic mapping of the "local universe" - out to 300 million light years

Cosmography of the Local Universe

Hélène M. Courtois, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 146, Number 3, 2013 August 14

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/146/3/69/meta

Cosmography of the Local Universe (HD)

Published on Jun 18, 2013

Behold a 3D map of of the universe, showing all galaxies out to 300 million light years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrMubF...

https://vimeo.com/64868713

Brent Tully, a cosmologist at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy has mapped the universe in detail out to a distance of about 100 million light years. To put that in more human terms: Columbus's maps of the New World described a land 3,000 miles from home, but Tully's map extends 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles out. No wonder he is often referred to as a cosmic cartographer. By filling in the details, Tully has made it possible to discern the true structure of the universe: clusters of galaxies arranged into enormous filaments, bound together by invisible strands of dark matter, and tremendous lonely voids where galaxies are sparse.

S'Cool Nus

The S'Cool Bus is a 10 passenger powered school bus (1 driver, 9 students).

S'Cool Bus - Présentation à Nantes -
https://youtu.be/dDE5Vw2188s

Ramassage scolaire : le cyclo-bus testé en Normandie
https://youtu.be/ocHz4riR09U

# bicycle
# education
# future cities

I am not an eggplant

- I am not an eggplant … http://bit.ly/2wPQt6S …

- i will say anything you want in front of a pizza
http://i-will-say-whatever-you-want-in-front-of-a-pizza.schloss-post.com

I Will Say Whatever You Want In Front of a Pizza
by Sebastian Schmieg, Schloss Post, 03 July 2017
https://schloss-post.com/will-say-whatever-want-infront-pizza/

I Will Say Whatever You Want In Front Of A Pizza is a speculative Prezi that explores digital labor, the amalgamation of humans and software, and the possibility of interventions inside algorithmic systems. It is narrated from the perspective of a cloud worker.

A Singapore teenager created a Prezi for Trump, because presentations are the worst
BY Sasha Lekach, Mashable. 18 November 2016
http://mashable.com/2016/11/18/singapore-teen-trump-campaign-presentation

# ai
# bot
# digital labor

Trump, Goldwater, and Disturbed Minds

How Trump Could Get Fired. The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office. How feasible are they?
Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired?

Diagnosing the president was off-limits to experts – until a textbook case entered the White House
Trump's Mental Health: Is Pathological Narcissism the Key to Trump's Behavior?
By Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 5 April 2017
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trump-and-the-pathology-of-narcissism-w474896

Will Trump Be the Death of the Goldwater Rule?
By Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 23 August 2017
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-trump-be-the-death-of-the-goldwater-rule

The Allure of Trump’s Narcissism
By Elizabeth Lunbeck, Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 August 2017
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-allure-of-trumps-narcissism/

Chirps and Ripples in the Universe

Hypothetical black holes could be eating neutron stars
Once inside, it spins fast enough for the star’s equator to reach escape velocity.
John Timmer, aes Technica, 10 August 2017
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/hypothetical-black-holes-could-be-eating-neutron-stars/

"primordial black holes" - an idea wilder than the idea of black holes themselves- black holes the size of cherry tomatoes!

Gravitational Waves Reveal the Unexpectedly Weird Behavior of Distant Black Holes
Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Gizmodo, 23 August 2017
http://gizmodo.com/gravitational-waves-reveal-the-unexpectedly-weird-behav-1798347524