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A lot of systems get out of hand due to feedback loops, whereby the inputs of something end up getting amplified by a system and then increase the input again. Biology, finance and other complex system fail when a system goes haywire and self amplifies exponentially. There isn’t a good language for graphic feedback story telling outside of the systems thinking world. →…read more In our hyper real 1080p-3D 50mega pixel quest for reality, we assume that things are more accurate with more resolution etc. Laser TV is going to produce 90% of the colors the human eye percieves, your best technology today delivers about 30%. However reality can sometimes by too garish and gory so it gets edited, distorted or disappears. Here is an interesting →…read more Anthropomorphizing things is an innate human trait. Here is a comic from the Abstruse Goose comic site. If you liked math and science in school, you will probably enjoy →…read more The average townhouse in New York is now $5m. Example to the left. Here is a chateau in the Loire Valley in France for $5m, sounds like a fixer upper, but maybe a good project to hide out with during the recession. Description: built in 1897 for a French Viscount by the architect Albert Thomas Here is an interesting map from William Easterly's site AidWatch. It shows the distance from major cities as a function of geography and time. Most of us are a few hours away from each other.
A few things to consider when looking at a network diagram like this: People and things spread fast More quality tom →…read more Great math is beauty in form the same way architecture or painting can be poetry in motion. Yes it is a bit of syesthasia for me. Great communicators are those who illuminate and share new worlds of understanding. Here is Marcus du Sautoy talking about the history of Symmetry. The language of math can be incredible and Marcus seems like a →…read more This may seem passe to say, but the rate of change and how you interact with the world is going to change faster than ever. I am not talking about e-books (next years commodity) killing newspapers etc. or anything that banal. (don't worry journalism will survive). The world is going to get more fragmented. Did you know that your view of the →…read more Thinking about what might be is important for designing better futures. Here is a stunning visual answer to the question, What if the Earth had rings like Saturn? Visualizing relationships, be they mathematical, cultural or physical is a powerful skill. Here is a great site about an interesting quest for visualizing prime numbers. I am a big fan of Phi, the Golden Ratio. One of the best books on this is Mario Livio's The Golden Ratio. Livio is a serious mathematician, historian and story teller who brings alive →…read more  Leave a comment  Uncategorized  Art & design, Books, Math, Quantitative analysis, Science, Thinking in Pictures |
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