A nostalgic nod to Choose Your Own Adventure, the pre-internet rabbit hole
All of these were great!
In 1848, a freak accident sent a 3-foot metal rod through the skull of railway worker named Phineas Gage, piercing his frontal lobe. Gage famously survived, but underwent dramatic personality changes after the accident.
Now, scientists reconstruct the most famous case study in the history of modern neuroscience in order to understand what happened to Gage through his connectome.
That thing on that guy’s shoulder? That’s a massive 95 x 95mm sensor made by Spectral Instruments.
This sensor is 5x bigger than a Hasselblad’s and shoots 112 megapixel photos! Because the sensor is so large, it can shoot hour-long exposures without noise and can capture stars in broad daylight.
This sensor isn’t made for the everyday photographer, but they might do it if they get enough feedback. So let ‘em know if you want it!
Massive Sensor That Can Shoot Stars in Daylight
Photo/story via Fstoppers
Sign me up. I want one!
The world record for the most expensive camera ever sold was broken yesterday!
Only 12 of the Leica 0-series exist, and this one sold for 2.16 million Euros at auction.
Watch the vid of it being auctioned.
I want. I want.
npr:
Here’s a new step in the effort to retrofit our cities so they run on ones and zeros.
Lea County, New Mexico was selected this week as the site of a billion-plus dollar test location for new urban technology called the Center for Innovation Testing and Evaluation. The plan is to build a city from scratch on more than 17 square miles of desert west of the city of Hobbs. It’ll be big enough to house tens of thousands of people. But all those buildings will be mostly empty.
A private company, Pegasus Global Holdings, with a background in militarizing commercial technology is behind the project. Managing Director Robert Brumley says this moves Pegasus into the multi-billion-dollar smart cities market. Brumley tells NPR the plan is to create a place where businesses, government and universities can take ideas out of the laboratory and try them out without affecting the people or the infrastructure in a real city.
He envisions testing self-driving trucks without the danger of running anyone over, testing energy storage without risking a power outage for residents, or testing wireless electronics without inadvertently causing people’s garage doors to open and close.
Brumley says CITE will be a “dumb city” in construction, outfitted with “copper, dsl, cable, coax and fiber. But underneath,” he says, “we’re going to wire it up with state of the art technology.” The first step is basically to dig a gigantic hole in the ground.
Local and state officials are welcoming and thrilled at the prospect of the new business this could generate. New Mexico’s governor turned out for the press conference. Says Brumley: “you’ve heard of NIMBY (Not In My Backyard). We have never confronted that in New Mexico.”
Final signatures are not on the real estate deal yet, but it involves a big land purchase and a supplemental 25 year lease from the county. The plan is to break ground for construction in June.
- Franklyn Cater
Five more days of training, not that I’m counting, and then swear-in time! Since I last posted, much has probably happened. I say ‘probably’ because I am not remembering every event of the day as vivid detail as I used to anymore (not proud of this; I’m finally coming down from my “Holy shee-ite…
So fun to read!
You go around sniffing out all the symptomatic actions in your vicinity, thus reducing everyone to the level of sons and daughters who blushingly admit the existence of their faults. Meanwhile you remain on top as the father, sitting pretty. For sheer obsequiousness nobody dares to pluck the prophet by the beard and inquire for once that you would say to a patient with a tendency to analyze the analyst instead of himself. You would certainly ask him: ‘Who’s got the neurosis?’… I am namely not in the least neurotic — touch wood! I have namely lege artis et tout humblement let myself be analyzed, which has been very good for me. You know, of course, how far a patient gets with self-analysis: not out of his neurosis — just like you
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Carl Jung’s scathing letter to Sigmund Freud, 1912, uncovered in The Freud Files – one of history’s most acrimonious intellectual assaults. (via explore-blog)
Go jeung with your bad self. |
#chocolate ganache with #basil #icecream #dessert to die for. (Taken with Instagram at SHO Shaun Hergatt)
