“Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol – as embodied by TED talks – is a recipe for civilizational disaster…” — Benjamin Bratton (theguardian.com).
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“Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol – as embodied by TED talks – is a recipe for civilizational disaster…” — Benjamin Bratton (theguardian.com).

‘Martin Krzywinski is an artist. No, wait, he’s a mathematician. Actually, scratch that: he’s both, and he can make the number Pi look insanely beautiful.
In this video, Numberphile takes a look at his work on visualizing the magical number Pi. Some of them are simple, some are complex; all are beautiful. Sit back and enjoy.’ (Youtube Numberphile via Gizmodo)