Archive for January, 2015

Statisticians in World War II: They also served | The Economist

Monday, January 5th, 2015

Via @stodden

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636589-how-statisticians-changed-war-and-war-changed-statistics-they-also-served?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ed/pe

Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code : Nature News & Comment

Monday, January 5th, 2015

http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261

Improve Collaborative Editing Of Office Files With Dropbox & Project Harmony

Monday, January 5th, 2015

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/improve-collaborative-editing-office-files-dropbox-project-harmony/

The best tidbits from the Steve Jobs bio – CNN.com

Sunday, January 4th, 2015

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Steve at Home | all about Steve Jobs.com

Sunday, January 4th, 2015

wild diets & an unfurnished home

http://allaboutstevejobs.com/persona/steveathome.php

NeXT logo by Paul Rand | Logo Design Love

Sunday, January 4th, 2015

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Steve Jobs on working with Rand:

“I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people.’” “}}

http://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand

Apple Lemmings 1985 – YouTube

Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_9lT7gr8u4

Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer (HD) – YouTube

Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

Famous commercial for launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA

What Happens When We All Live to 100? – The Atlantic

Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/what-happens-when-we-all-live-to-100/379338/

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn – life – 03 December 2014 – Control – New Scientist

Friday, January 2nd, 2015

Root intelligence: #Plants can think, feel and learn… But on a slow timescale http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429980.400-root-intelligence-plants-can-think-feel-and-learn.html Memory & "brain" near end of roots