Weekend reading links for 23 September 2011, including: sushi etiquette, cultural insights from 5 million books, Bartitsu demonstration, and great science discoveries.
- Culturomics: What We Learned from 5 Million Books: Great TED talk on some cultural insights from digitizing and processing 5 million books as n-grams.
- Bartitsu and Suffrajitsu Demonstrations: Martial Arts demonstrations at the Western Martial Arts Workshop 2011 in London. Bartitsu is the martial art of Sherlock Holmes and Suffrajitsu is the martial art used by women fighting for the right to vote.
- Silversmith wins MacArthur Genius Award
- Sushi Etiquette: Note that the post keeps mentioning fish–not all sushi has fish. In fact, if you’ve been squeamish about trying sushi because of the raw fish part, then ask for “tomago” sushi–it’s rice with a piece of sweet egg omelet on top instead of raw fish. Delicious!
- How technology is changing business: Great infographic on how businesses are changing, and why big companies often turn stale.
- Where’s the octopus?: Super sneaky octopus!
- Particles found to break the speed of light
- Scientists reconstruct images of what we see based on brain activity: I want movies from my dreams!
- Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler: Made from 10,000 Lego bricks.
- Heinlein’s rules for writing
Have a great weekend!