#CoSoBooks
#CoSoNeuroscience

The Remarkable Adaptability of the Human Brain

In “Livewired,” neuroscientist David Eagleman shows how the brain shapes itself by interacting with the outside world.

By Elizabeth Svoboda

“You are a different person than you were at this time last year, because the gargantuan tapestry of your brain has woven itself into something new,”

https://undark.org/2020/10/09/book-review-livewired/

Book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51778153-livewired

#CoSoPhilosophy

Why read Boethius today?

Written while awaiting execution, the Consolation of Philosophy poses questions about human reason that remain urgent today.
By John Marenbon

"We know that, to Boethius and his envisaged contemporary readers, pagan philosophy was still a reality and, although all Christians, they were also self-consciously guardians of the ancient, pre-Christian tradition of learning, law and civility."

https://aeon.co/essays/why-we-should-read-boethiuss-consolation-of-philosophy-today

#CoSoPrograming

T-SQL in SQLite — CG/SQL is a code generation system for the popular SQLite library that allows developers to write stored procedures in a variant of Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and compile them into C code that uses SQLite’s C API to do the coded operations. CG/SQL enables engineers to create highly complex stored procedures with very large queries, without the manual code checking that existing methods require. (Open Source)

https://engineering.fb.com/open-source/cg-sql/

#CoSoGames

(Old School)

Telemelt is a web-based multi-emulator (RetroArch/libretro) designed to recreate the experience of playing console games with a single controller in a room full of friends.

https://www.andrewreitano.com/posts/telemelt/

#CoSoBooks

Data visualization pioneer Edward Tufte has published four books on the art and science of displaying information, including the seminal The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in 1983. To that set, he now adds a fifth book: Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth. I couldn’t find a description of the book, but the website lists the table of contents and shows a few of the page layouts.

(you can direct from author)

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/seeing-with-fresh-eyes

#CoSoScience

(Again for the "the fine structure constant", What is it about 1 over 137, it shows up everywhere?)

Scientists find upper limit for the speed of sound.

The result- about 36 km per second, is around twice as fast as the speed of sound in diamond, the hardest known material in the world.

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-scientists-upper-limit.html

Paper

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/41/eabc8662

#CoSoScience
#CoSoEnvironment

Democracy and the Nuclear Stalemate.

How moving beyond the scientism of the nuclear debate could deliver a long-awaited climate breakthrough, and generate fresh ideas for a more productive politics.
By Taylor Dotson and Michael Bouchey

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/democracy-and-the-nuclear-stalemate

Hurricane Delta is a bad one:

Remember that Hurricane damage doesn't just rise with wind speed, it goes up exponentially. A category 5 storm is not five times more destructive than a category 1 storm. It is 500 times more destructive!

Warming makes Delta, other storms power up faster.

....a storm gaining 35 mph (56 kph) in wind speed in just 24 hours. Delta is the sixth storm this year and the second in a week to reach the threshold.

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-experts-delta-storms-power-faster.html

#CoSoTech

"Good Intentions, Bad Inventions," a new pamphlet by Amanda Lenhart and Kellie Owens from Data and Society takes aim at this story and three others, painting a more nuanced (and evidence-based!) picture of what's wrong with tech and how to improve it.

https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Healthy-Tech-Myths-DataSociety-20201007.pdf

#CoSoPhilosophy

Alice Crary
Ethics, Wittgenstein and the Frankfurt School, and Cavell
Interview by Richard Marshall

Alice Crary is a moral and social philosopher who has written widely on issues in metaethics, moral psychology and normative ethics, getting animalsethically into view, philosophy and literature, philosophy and feminism, critical animal studies, critical disability studies, and Critical Theory.

https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/ethics-wittgenstein-and-the-frankfurt-school-and-cavell

#CoSoTV

Today at the Virtual New York Comic-Con, Amazon brought along a first look at its upcoming fifth season of its series The Expanse, based on the novel series by James S.A. Corey, teasing the beginning of a massive war between Earth and the Outer Planets Alliance. It also let us know when we’ll see the next season: December 16th, 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLji74IIp4

How do you correct a mistake in a text ?
Do you just send the correction as a plain word, or do you use a mark ?
What mark do you use ?

https://xkcd.com/2337/

More:

Progressively Losing
By Richard Kline

"And so for the first time since the second world war, the great political clash has shifted from between the establishment and assorted progressives, to one between different parts of the establishment: one part appearing as the stalwarts of liberal democracy, the other as the representatives of illiberal democracy."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/richard-kline-progressively-losing.html

#CoSoPolitics

(Some of this is great, some of it smacks of a "Fourth international")

How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century.
By Yanis Varoufakis

"So for the first time since the second world war, the great political clash has shifted from between the establishment and assorted progressives, to one between different parts of the establishment: one part appearing as the stalwarts of liberal democracy, the other as the representatives of illiberal democracy."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/10/yanis-varoufakis-how-progressives-could-still-win-the-21st-century.html

#CoSoArt

The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood: a new series
(in 4 parts)

1. Introduction

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/01/the-pre-raphaelite-sisterhood-a-new-series/

2. Sophie Gengembre Anderson: Elaine of Astolat

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/02/sophie-gengembre-anderson-elaine-of-astolat/

3. Annie Louisa Swynnerton: The Sense of Sight

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/08/annie-louisa-swynnerton-the-sense-of-sight/

4. Marianne Stokes: Madonna and Child – coming soon

#CoSoBooks

The poet Louise Glück has become the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years, cited for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/08/louise-gluck-wins-the-2020-nobel-prize-in-literature

#CoSoScience
#CoSoArt

Imagining the unseen

An art exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin combines art and science to illuminate the invisible nature of dark matter.
By Ali Sundermier

“Dark Distortions,” which consists of a sculpture that takes up about 10 square feet of space, is designed to mimic the twisted motion of light as it passes through a dark-matter-riddled galaxy.

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/imagining-the-unseen