The Neuroscience of Distance and Desire

Link: The Neuroscience of Distance and Desire

Warning: What you want is not as close as it appears (via Scientific American)

It's just a little further.... (via scientific american)

The 10 best arts and culture TED talks

Link: The 10 best arts and culture TED talks

Includes David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve(via hydeordie)

Twitter-tracker !

Twitter analytics tool TwitterSheep makes a tag cloud from the bios of your twitter followers.  {this cloud tracks mine @caneel}

Another sunny evening : ) – courtesy London Summers

London sky at 9:00 PM. Kid you not. Summer nights are anazing up here. It’s hard to remember to stop work and go home sometimes. (Took this shot outside my office at the LSE, near Holborn station)

Locals vs Tourists: Where Photos Get Taken in London

Locals and Tourists #1 (GTWA #2): London

Blue pictures are by locals. Red pictures are by tourists. Yellow pictures might be by either. (Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA)

A gorgeous info visualization map by Flickr user Eric Fischer.  {Thank you for sending this to me, Kevin}