Author name: Agrippa

Cofounder and editor-at-large of thenoisecast.com. Descended from a quantum crisis that merged Zeus and Batman together momentarily, confusing them and making them impregnate a cloud of pure concentrated awesome. He was born defective however, and looks normal, except grotesquely obese.

The New Lingo

Being loyal readers, I’m sure you read our recent write-up about Codecademy. Well, those wonderful folks are throwing their weight behind http://codeyear.com/. The idea? Let’s make learning how to code (in this case in javascript) a New Year resolution for thousands. You sign up and you will get emails with lessons periodically – specifically made …

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Twitter may influence the spread of disease… or usher a new age of social science.

It’s flu season again, at least for the Northern hemisphere (where everything’s right side up). Over on New Scientist a question was posed: If you’re getting vaccinated and tweet it, will your followers follow you to the doctor, or are they the sort of people who have an appointment booked already? A few US researchers …

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Noisecast Roundup 10-11-2011: D.R.E.A.M. (dubstep rules everything around me) Edition

Welcome to another roundup. A magical place where children don’t get touched in their naughty places like certain other magical places that shall remain nameless. It’s been a pretty chill Tuesday. I know you’re getting home from work (unless you’re in Europe) and you just want to unwind and do your thing. So chill the …

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