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This is one cool project. The one thing I don’t quite like is that the project is made in Flash and it pretty much slows down my MacBook, but I guess this is an issue that will be solved in time. For what it’s worth, Sun Aeon Solar System is an European project. The company is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. If you want to back these guys, feel free to check their IndieGoGo page (that’s some sort of Kickstarter that can be used outside USA too).
Scientists are finding that the same changes to chromosomes that happen as people age can also be found in people experiencing major stress and depression. The phenomenon, known as “accelerated aging,” is beginning to reshape the field’s understanding of stress and depression not merely as psychological conditions but as body-wide illnesses in which mood may be just the most obvious symptom.
Depression is a disease. An ugly one, that can kill you. Here’s a good article in the The Wall Street Journal on this matter.
I got to read this New York Times Opinionator blog post. Here are some of Ben Yagoda’s words:
As a professor at the University of Delaware, I read a lot of writing by college students, and in it a strong recent trend is reversion to comma-by-sound. I attribute this not so much to students’ love of the Constitution and the classics but to the fact that they don’t read much edited prose (as opposed to Facebook status updates, tweets and the like). Two things that you really need to read a lot to understand are punctuation and spelling. (Not coincidentally, spelling is the other contemporary writing disaster.)
I’m not a native English speaker so I wouldn’t know all the rules. I still have issues and I’ll most probably always have. But I think this problem can be set in any geographic area in the world. We have this problem in Romania too. And Romanian grammar is even harder than English grammar. People tend to write as they hear the phrases in their heads. And, yes, the reason is that they don’t read anymore anything else but Facebook statuses. And it’s an even bigger problem when you see the common people’s common mistakes on TV. Written on the scroll or wherever. That’s a heartache.
Anyway, commas aren’t the real issue here. The main problem is that people start to misuse a common word like “your”. Yes, you might call it misspelling. Haven’t you ever seen someone writing “I’m going home and your coming with me” or similar? I did. Now, I have an excuse, my first language isn’t English and, when I’m tired, I do that too. But that’s me. But this problem, I think, is worse. That’s where the “healing process” must start, I belive.
(Found on DF4)
Oh, by the way, I took this quote from the comments section of the article:
Loved the article though. Punctuation will always be somewhat arbitrary, because writing in general is a visual approximation of speech, and the punctuation is inevitably the parts that cannot be heard.
It’s pretty much what I said above.
Here’s a really interesting project: Livehoods (check the NYC map).
The Livehoods Project presents a new methodology for studying the dynamics, structure, and character of a city on a large scale using social media and machine learning. Using data such as tweets and check-ins, we are able to discover the hidden structures of the city with machine learning. […] Livehoods allow us to investigate and explore how people actually use the city, simultaneosly shedding light onto the factors that come together to shape the urban landscape and the social texture of city life, including municipal borders, demographics, economic development, resources, geography, and planning.
The project is using Google maps to generate the hoods. Here’s more details. Can’t wait to read the first results.
All in all, you’re just another popstar in the mall!
Now, that’s the spirit! Hopefully, more kids will understand the whole point of whatever this dude is trying to do. Clearly, he has no chance to educate kids through YouTube, but, hey!, who am I to talk if I didn’t even try?
Alphabet 2.0
How kids learn the alphabet nowadays.
I like Nick Kristof. I follow his Twitter account. It’s not because he’s a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner - see an excerpt of his official NYT description below -, it’s because he actually knows what he’s talking about. He goes all over the world and writes what he sees. He’s one of the top journalists in the world. And education is one of his obsessions. Click the title for the full article, it’s worth sharing.
Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist forThe New York Times since 2001, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who writes op-ed columns that appear twice a week.
Guess what? Steve Jobs was damn right when he talked about iPads as the tools for the future of education. And for the future of iOS developers’ profits. 200.000 dollars made by one developer only in one year is… wow! Really.
$200,000, which is not bad considering I’ve made $90,000 since August 2011 due to the success of Word Wizard, my second app, in English and French (you can see that the steep of the slope is much better once the app has been released).
So now let’s see some details about 4 apps, the most important ones (more of 90% of the income - see below for others apps). Note that all my apps are universal (iPad+iPhone)
