Sea Orchestra ad
Sometimes advertising can be so very cool:
Sea Orchestra from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.
Definitely pop over to Vimeo and watch the HD version!
Category: Mindless Links
Just links to stuff that I liked. Could be funny, sad, interesting, useful, whatever.
Girls are good at math, US culture isn’t
According to the report, many girls with extremely high aptitude for math exist, but they are rarely identified in the U.S. because they veer from a career trajectory in the mathematical sciences due to the low respect American culture places on math, systemic flaws in the U.S. public school education system, and a lack of role models. — American Culture Derails Girl Math Whizzes, Study Finds
archive and screenshot: http://bit.ly/info/3zJitA
via: skepchick
Shocker: girls are actually quite good at math, but our culture thinks math is stodgy and gross, so girls shy away from it. We all knew that, but nice to see it actually demonstrated…
Check out BrassGoggles
I had the pleasure of helping the proprietor of the wonderful BrassGoggles get her software infrastructure updated. In so doing, I also read quite a bit of the archives, and it really is a fun site.
Give her some link love… all three of you. ;-)
Résumé: Impossible
Apparently the host of the show Dinner: Impossible had a few inaccuracies on his CV. Like faking a knighthood, and his most prominent culinary achievements.
Wanker.