Meritocracy again, but with the rich and poor

Listen I know I ride on this meritocracy thing a lot, but once you read the book your whole world gets shaped by it. Michael Young was a damn visionary and I cannot understand why his work doesn't get more coverage. Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World offered similar warnings about propaganda, group think and genetic screening for your place in life, but Youngs warning about how they will come for us and swallow us under with education and testing is the warning that has actually manifested to a real threat to our freedom to live our lives.

This video is about experiments that observe the attitudes and behaviors of rich and poor people. These same behaviors are described and manifest in The Rise of the Meritocracy, towards the end where the meritorious assign more and more of the rewards to themselves and less and less to the dullards until they rise up violently. If you haven't read the book do yourself a favor and do, it's short possible a day or two worth of reading and it's amazingly informative.

Science Friday

I dig me some science and graphene is definitely a huge area of interest moving forward for the electronics industry, in some respects all industries if the charge profile is as good as they think it is.





via Geeks are Sexy

Wait science damn you!

Minute Physics blows my mind on a weekly basis.





Completely un-related Science damn you makes me think of this South Park Episode.  Save the time child!

Feel good Science Ted Talk

If you're a fan of mythbusters I think you will appreciate this Ted Talk by Adam Savage. Make posted a great little video for the world to see and I think most people can appreciate a little science peptalk.

This just in, even scientists want to get chicks naked

Watch the video below and tell me that this wasn't invented after a few beers and one researcher said to the other why don't we get to see tits at work?

We Can Recycle Plastic

This is a pretty cool ted talk about recycling plastics. Both videos are the same talk, the one from the Ted Talk website should work for everyone, but in case below is a youtube version.




Youtube version.

More hand drawn videos

This one is not a great as some of the other videos of this type I've watched, but I'm a sucker for this type of presentation.

Mind pop

So if you heard a loud pop earlier, that was my mind being blown.  I realize videos are lame, but watch it.

WTFBBQ

cold brain for sleep

If you didn't read the articles on the internet about cooling your brain for better sleep you must have been under a rock for the last 2 weeks.  I actually suffer from periodic bouts of insomnia, the kind that involves me not getting my mind to quiet down long enough for me to go to sleep.  On Sunday night I had a reason to give this theory a go, and for me it looks like bullshit.

I had two freezer icepacks on my head for about 45 minutes, and still away 3 hours later.  I realize I didn't have their special fancy cooling cap on, but I didn't feel any benefit from cooling my noggin.

Anybody else give this a try?  I would be curious to see a group of people independently try this out to form some sort of a random sample.