The Hacker Community's Foremost Social Network. 8 math talks to blow your mind Mathematics gets down to work in these talks, breathing life and logic into everyday problems. Prepare for math puzzlers both solved and unsolvable, and even some still waiting for solutions. Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs When Ron Eglash first saw an aerial photo of an African village, he couldn’t rest until he knew — were the fractals in the layout of the village a coincidence, or were the forces of mathematics and culture colliding in unexpected ways? Here, he tells of his travels around the continent in search of an answer. How big is infinity? Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic” A whole team of calculators is no match for Arthur Benjamin, as he does astounding mental math in the blink of an eye. Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music What makes a piece of music beautiful? Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness The world is based on roughness, explains legendary mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World This article was first published on September 30, 2013. Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique position to see exactly how the global elite rules the world, and the information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely stunning. The goal is control. Remember, this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things. Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. Today, Hudes is trying very hard to expose the corrupt financial system that the global elite are using to control the wealth of the world. Previously, I have written about the Swiss study that Hudes mentioned. But the global elite don’t just control these mega-corporations. This system did not come into being by accident.
Silicon Valley Map - a map of tech companies and start-ups in Silicon Valley and San Francisco TECHNOREALISM Isabell Lorey: Gubernamentalidad y precarización de sí Algunos de nosotros y de nosotras, productores y productoras culturales,[1] ni siquiera consideramos la idea de un empleo fijo en una institución. Como mucho unos pocos años, después queremos algo diferente. ¿No ha sido siempre nuestra idea la de no vernos forzados a una sola dedicación, a la definición clásica de empleo que ignora tantísimas cosas? ¿No se trataba de no venderse, de no vernos compelidos o compelidas a renunciar a las muchas actividades que tanto nos apetecen? Para mantener la actitud que acabamos de sugerir resulta crucial la creencia de que hemos elegido nuestras propias situaciones, tanto vitales como laborales, y de que podemos realizarlas de manera relativamente libre y autónoma. Ninguna afirmación general sobre los productores o las productoras culturales o sobre aquellas personas que se encuentran actualmente en una situación de precariedad se podrá deducir de dicho enfoque. Gubernamentalidad biopolítica Sujetos libres normalizados [9] Ibidem.
Joi Ito. Director of the MIT Media Lab and a Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences Joichi “Joi” Ito has been recognized for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and advocate of emergent democracy, privacy and Internet freedom. As director of the MIT Media Lab and a Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences, he is currently exploring how radical new approaches to science and technology can transform society in substantial and positive ways. Soon after coming to MIT in 2011, Ito introduced mindfulness meditation training to the Media Lab. Together with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Ito teaches Principles of Awareness, a class devoted to promoting the contribution that awareness and focus can bring to the creativity process. Ito is chairman of the board of PureTech and previously served as board chair and chief executive of Creative Commons. Ito is chairman of the board of PureTech and previously served as board chair and chief executive of Creative Commons. Conflict of interest disclosure.
LA FRONTERA COMO MÉTODO Las fronteras, lejos de servir únicamente para bloquear u obstruir el paso global de personas, dinero y objetos, se han transformado en dispositivos fundamentales para su articulación. Desempeñan un papel clave en la producción del tiempo y espacio heterogéneos del capitalismo global contemporáneo. Los sujetos en movimiento y sus experiencias de la frontera nos proveen una suerte de hilo que atraviesa los capítulos de este libro. En estos se analiza la forma en desarrollo de los regímenes de frontera y migración en diferentes partes del mundo. Se considera el modo en qué estos regímenes producen la mercancía fuerza de trabajo. Al mismo tiempo, se considera el problema de las relaciones entre las fronteras expansivas del capital y las demarcaciones territoriales de la historia del capitalismo moderno, que desde sus primeros momentos se despliega como un sistema mundial.