Jacqueline Ashby

Blend the genius of Damien Rice with the tender voice of Dallas Green and I think you get something close to Andrew Hozier-Byrne. I’m keeping my fingers crossed he captures the Grammy for Take Me to Church (parental advisory). Hozier will be in Vancouver on February 15th at the Orpheum. Until then, I’m enjoying his live session of From Eden.

The Pursuit of Novelty

Jason Silva from Shots of Awe and TestTube.com.

Contrastive Focus Reduplication

Oh how I wish my college English courses had been taught by the always entertaining Michael from VSauce. In this session he covers contrastive focus reduplication, verbal nouns, rebracketing, and unpaired words.

Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age

Alex Winter’s new movie exploring the deep web is in the works and yesterday he sent out this brief clip on Ross Ulbricht’s case. I’m looking forward to the full feature. (Proud to be a backer of Winter’s Kickstarter campaign!)

The Silk Road Servers from Trouper on Vimeo.

Archiculture: Mary Wood

Taking Detours

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will get you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein

Daniele Quercia: Happy Maps. What a fantastic idea! Creating maps based on human emotions as opposed to efficiency. Check out Dr. Quercia’s creation at Urban Opticon. Interested in learning more about his research? Click here.