Steve Spalding

You know what I really like today, @datakind. Awesome implementation of data science. Take a peek.

socalsamba on I made a LED strip controller - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Interesting project in self-sufficient design of living spaces. http://www.fablabhouse.com/en/

RT @openculture: 30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace on the Web http://www.openculture.com/2012... https://twitter.com/opencul...

RT @motherboard: This team of small robots works together to 3D-print buildings: http://motherboard.vice.com/read... https://twitter.com/motherb...

RT @umairh: great stuff “@SOCAPmarkets: .@AmericanExpress set up a $100million venture fund focused on #financialinclusion solutions #SOCAP14”

Agreeing with an idea and recognizing the possibility that a reasonable person could hold that idea are two very different things.

RT @teamrework: Biowearable could give real-time disease updates http://www.wired.co.uk/news... #biowearables #medtech #wearables #IOT

RT @CassSunstein: On the interaction of memory and procrastination (with lots of implications). http://www.nber.org/papers...

RT @kashhill: It's truly a war over personal information. Jawbone exec refers to the masses as "data civilians." http://www.nytimes.com/2014...

RT @WorstMuse: Don't think of it as a novel. Think of it as a chance to retroactively win every argument you have ever walked away from.

It's entirely possible and sometimes important to be able to argue for ways of thinking you don't personally believe.

Everyone survives his zombie apocolypse, everyone is a noble in his monarchy, everyone is the conquering rather than the conquered.

RT @data_society: Very cool: DERP "to promote open, publicly accessible, and ethical academic inquiry into...social dynamics of the web http://www.theguardian.com/technol...

RT @brainpicker: “Don’t Read Books!” A 12th-century Zen poem denouncing books as dangerous distraction http://www.brainpickings.org/index... https://twitter.com/brainpi...

RT @TweetsofOld: It is not very funny for a person to build a sidewalk and then have it converted into a roller-skating rink without permission. IL1877

RT @FootnoteMedia: "Each of us cobbles together a perspective...of multiple competing, conflicting discourses." cc @pitzercollege http://footnote1.com/beyond-...

RT @tarynoneill: Read Two Hugo Award-Winning Writers In @popsci's Sci-Fi Special Issue | Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/article...

RT @HistoryInPics: In 1910, a French illustrator named Villemard predicted what the year 2000 would be like https://twitter.com/History...

Ah, I remember when Twitter was a place I could ramble about science and argue with @umairh about the fall of western civilization...

When making history, try to understand your place in it and act accordingly, the future will thank you.

Information is the most powerful and often most dangerous weapon at our disposal.

RT @JerryMarkon: Another extraordinary statement on #Ferguson & #MichaelBrown by #EricHolder. @TheJusticeDept rarely says this much: http://www.justice.gov/opa...

Remember that week we all decided to do one thing to make someone else happy? #wishfultweeting

Remember that time we all tried really hard to make good, life affirming decisions for a week straight? #wishfultweeting

Next stop on this afternoons trip into the world of cognitive bias, The Ultimate Attribution Error http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

RT @Raed667: I'm a software engineering student reaching out to find a graduation project starting 2016 Please contact me if you have something

RT @Wit_of_Wilde: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Once more with feeling -- on why we underestimate the role of context is everyone elses behavior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Because I think it will be fun, today's cognitive bias is on why we think people always get what they deserve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

One day I hope that people will be getting into strangers airplanes and spacecraft because they think they are with a ride-sharing service.

RT @poorstruggler: (for day timers) drug up from the depth of the briny - https://twitter.com/poorstr...