Caras transformadas

Estudio científico sobre la percepción del rostro. Incluye herramientas para transformar fotografías de caras, permite subir imágenes propias.

http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/

Storitelling and Homo Narrativus

A Journal of Impossible Things: Homo narrativus and Pratchett

"Storytelling is the opposite of reductionism; 26 letters and some rules of grammar are no story at all"

Zombie Outbreak Survival Test

Take the Zombie Outbreak Survival Test ...will you survive?

Consejos para sobrevivir en el siglo 10

Si viajas en el tiempo, ¿qué deberías saber?

Marginal Revolution: Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips

I wanted to ask for survival tips in case I am unexpectedly transported to a random location in Europe (say for instance current France/Benelux/Germany) in the year 1000 AD (plus or minus 200 years). I assume that such transportation would leave me with what I am wearing, what I know, and nothing else. Any advice would help.

1) Wouldn't *I* be the one infecting everyone else, rather than the other way around, because I'll have

the antibodies for all the futuristic strains infesting me and they won't?

2) Tell them that the aeolipile (sp?) is not just a toy; steam power has untapped potential.

3) Teach them about mass production and automation. (actually, don't know what specifics I could give here)

4) Teach them about sanitation and hygiene.

5) Back up all claims with bets, putting up whatever wealth you can get as collateral.

6) Teach them Bayes's Theorem -- an even better epistemology than the scientific method.

7) Teach them the Put-Call Parity Theorem so they can discard their prejudices against usury.

8) Teach them Ricardian comparitive advantage so they can discard their prejudices against foreign goods.

9) Most of all, advise them, in no uncertain terms, not to be timist. (That's like racist, but against people

from a different time.

Familia de las lenguas indo-europeas

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Aliens: Want to Invent an Alien Language?

Want to Invent an Alien Language?

La historia secreta de La Guerra de las Galaxias

La evolución completa de los guiones del universo StarWars, con montones de fuentes nunca antes publicadas. Por y para fans de SW.

The Secret History of Star Wars

What is it?

The Secret History of Star Wars is a new full-length e-book exploring the writing and creation of the Star Wars saga. Culled from over 400 sources and filled with quotes from people such as George Lucas, Gary Kurtz and Mark Hamill, The Secret History of Star Wars traces all the way back to 1973 to examine how the first 14-page treatment that began the series came to be and was slowly built, draft by draft, year by year and movie by movie. Covering a period of over four decades, you will discover how George Lucas got his ideas for the original film, how Darth Vader was made into Luke Skywalker's father in 1978 and forever altered the arc of the story, what happened to the infamous third trilogy in the series and how the prequel stories came to be. The book also reveals the style and method of Lucas himself and how his personal life affected and shaped the story, for better and worse. This is a book which challenges many legends surrounding the series and places the films in a new light. For the more casual fan this will be a mesmerising read and for those who think they know everything about the series, prepare to be surprised!

Narrativa dolorosa - "HOYGAN" como género literario

Un clásico de la SF cutre en inglés, ahora traducido. Se hacen lecturas públicas en las convenciones (el desafío es hacerlo de corrido, sin equivocarse y sin reirse).


Barrapunto | Traducido "El ojo de Argón", obra cumbre del subgénero HOYGAN

CAPITULO 1

La senda gastada por el tiempo serpenteaba hacia los climas polvorientos de las tierras resacas que dominan grandes porciones del Imperio Norgoliano. Huellas de cascos de edad inmemorial y cubiertas por las movedizas arenas del tiempo brillaban apagadas contra la corteza terrestre salpicada de polvo. El sol incansable lanzaba sus abrasadores rayos de incandencencia desde lo alto, a mitad de su revolución diaria. Pequeños roedores correteaban, ocupados con los logros diarios de sus vidas miserables. El polvo se esparcía sobre tres monturas esforzadas en nubes cegadoras que llevaban las pestadas cargas de sus esforzados supervisores.

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Arte ruso retro-futurista

Arte procedente de la SF rusa.

Dark Roasted Blend: Retro-Future: To The Stars!

Space never looked better... and perhaps never will

Retro-futuristic art, in a way, is a double-fantasy: imaginary future wrapped in imaginary past. Which makes this style doubly interesting, if not doubly obsolete... In this part we will showcase rarely seen art, done in 1930s to 1970s, mostly from "Teknika Molodezhi" (TM), Yuny Tekhnik, DetGiz (Russia) and German retro-future sites.

Muertes por infarto - y cómo deshacerlas.

The Science of Death: Reviving the Dead - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com

Back From the Dead
Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death