readers of early English novels
The rapid growth of novels in the late eighteenth-century was an important communications industry development. A large number of manuscripts of novels were available to printers at low cost. Printing novels was a profit-driven business, as was book-selling and book-lending through commercial circulating libraries. Printers chose novels to print with keen regard for market demand. [...]
Tagged: novels, sex differences
mutation happens
I found this beautiful mutation in a bed of flowers gone wild.
COB-21: sacrificing people for the organization
This month at the Carnival of the Bureaucrats we review founding documents of bureaucracy. Perhaps the most important historical moment in bureaucracy was the drafting of a document whose first paragraph includes this exalted statement: “When in the course of bureaucratic events it becomes necessary for an organization to sacrifice some of its members, a [...]
artistic neuroscience
Shen Wei Dance Arts painted and played Connect Transfer at the Kennedy Center this weekend. In the open space of the Concert Hall, the performance connected senses and worked across specific to abstract in an intriguing externalization of the human brain. In caricature, ballet is about the air, and modern dance is about the floor. [...]
Tagged: review
what I've heard
“I don’t read fiction, Doug. Fiction’s just not true!” “I don’t have time to read the newspaper. I just form my own opinions.” “I’m fed up with all the media concentration. I’ve decided, from now on, I’m just going to listen to NPR.”
Tagged: news
video searching and ad targeting
Searching video is notoriously difficult. That implies a scaling problem for a large video repository like YouTube. Given relatively fixed amounts of video tagging and category information, more videos imply relatively less information for searching among videos and targeting ads to videos. YouTube’s announcement of new APIs for external use of the YouTube video platform [...]
Tagged: advertising, YouTube
butterfly world
[video included above] No world surpasses the beauty of this our world.