{"id":657501,"date":"2013-05-11T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75679"},"modified":"2013-05-10T19:01:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:01:12","slug":"your-weekend-reading-depression-in-comics-betting-on-the-origin-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657501","title":{"rendered":"Your weekend reading: Depression in comics, betting on the origin of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A round-up of funny, interesting and strange stories on the Internet this week:<\/p>\n<p>Hyperbole and a Half&#8217;s Allie Brosh is back after a two-year hiatus, with part 2 of an illustrated account of overcoming depression. Dark and delightful. [<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/depression-part-two.html\" >Hyperbole and a Half<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/9cc7d7673d8d59197905479a94233bf03ac7a96d_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Hawking: Questioning the universe\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Stephen Hawking: Questioning the universe<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even world-famous scientists have tiffs. Obviously this bet between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html\" >Stephen Hawking<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/neil_turok_makes_his_ted_prize_wish.html\" >Neil Turok<\/a> means they are just like us. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2013-05-10-00-betting-on-the-origin-of-the-universe\/\" >Mail &amp; Guardian<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>A Spanish foundation uses lenticular printing to show a different anti-abuse ad to people depending on their height, to convey a secret message to abused children when walking with their abusers. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-ad-has-a-secret-anti-abuse-message-that-only-kids-493108460\" >Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Julian Baggini, on why Kierkegaard is still awesome and relevant. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeonmagazine.com\/world-views\/julian-baggini-i-love-kierkegaard\/\" >Aeon<\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/julian_baggini_is_there_a_real_you.html\" >Watch his TEDx talk \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/neil_turok_makes_his_ted_prize_wish.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/34910_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Turok makes his TED Prize wish\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Neil Turok makes his TED Prize wish<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers observe that theta brainwaves are predictors for the ability to overcome ingrained Pavlovian biases, which could help in treating conditions like addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder. [<a href=\"http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/brainwave-activity-predicts-how-well-people-can-overcome-ingrained-biases\/\" >Sci Tech Daily<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Neurohumanities: Breakthrough cross-disciplinary approach, or reductionist field? In other words: Does \u201chow your brain is firing &#8230; tell you if something is ironic, metaphorical or meaningful&#8221;? The jury is still out. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/174221\/adventures-neurohumanities?page=full#\" >The Nation<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>A redditor projected a circle (ish) on a map of the world and observed some astonishing facts. [<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-t-493103044\" >io9<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/181883_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJim Holt reviews a new memoir about Beno\u00eet Mandelbrot, the mathematics legend who coined the word &#8220;fractal.&#8221; A story of truly infinite beauty. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2013\/may\/23\/mandlebrot-mathematics-of-roughness\/?pagination=false\" >NYRB<\/a><\/em>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html\" >Watch Mandelbrot&#8217;s talk from 2010 on roughness \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at Science Studio, dedicated to collecting the best science video and audio on the interwebs, have launched a preview edition of their site. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~3\/CI8bwaaTlU8\/The%20Science%20Studio,%20collecting%20the%20best%20science%20video%20and%20audio%20on%20the%20web\" >Science Studio<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A lovely visualization of the number of meteorites with eyewitnesses in proportion to those recorded. [<a href=\"http:\/\/bolid.es\/\" >Bolid.es<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The Cicadapocalypse is nigh as billions of cicadas return to New York for the first time in 17 years. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2013\/05\/05\/billion_of_cicadas_returning_to_nyc.php\" >Gothamist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75679\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75679\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=75679&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/CI8bwaaTlU8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round-up of funny, interesting and strange stories on the Internet this week: Hyperbole and a Half&#8217;s Allie Brosh is back after a two-year hiatus, with part 2 of an illustrated account of overcoming depression. Dark and delightful. [Hyperbole and a Half] Stephen Hawking: Questioning the universe Even world-famous scientists have tiffs. Obviously this bet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}