Karl Horky - Blog

Cristóbal Sciutto Rodríguez writes in The Inexact Sciences collective blog about Cycles of Knowledge , how various forms of knowledge are represented in different domains, and the agents of th...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2024/04/cycles-of-knowledg.html

 POQA, a hierarchy of needs for dynamic action and revolutionary thinking PROGRESS: Movement, change of the status quo, creating new options OPTIMISM: Belief that things can change, opennes...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2024/03/poqa.html

Google's new Mountain View campus: blurring the lines between the natural, the urban and the corporate.

http://www.karlhorky.com/2015/02/googles-new-campus-design-proposal.html

Starting out or polishing your skills as a web developer is easier than ever with the growing amount of resources available. However, it's not always easy to find these resources and harder to fi...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2015/02/learn-to-program.html

Business models like Uber are replacing middle management with software . This is leading, first of all, to a situation where humans are being told what to do by machines (an API). As technique...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2015/02/methods-of-control-and-automation-of.html

San Francisco. City of fog, startups and good hospitality. In early March Brad and Matt from sendwithus proposed a crazy idea - that I fly to San Francisco to more actively support compa...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2014/03/san-francisco-usa.html

The Chromecast finally arrived!

http://www.karlhorky.com/2013/10/chromecast.html

Based on the idea that families in need of medical treatments in the developing world can be connected to donors elsewhere in the world, Watsi has just seen their first success: the first fully ...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2013/03/crowdfunding-nonprofit-watsi-tells.html

Photo Credit: MATEUS_27:24&25 Österreich hat sich entschieden , dass die Wehrpflicht beibehaltet werden soll, anstatt die Einführung eines Berufsheeres. Das heißt, dass jeder männliche S...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2013/01/die-wehrpflicht-geht-weiter.html

Photo Credit: ousooner44 When talking about getting together and connecting with others I think Seth has gotten it right on pretty much all his points here , but the one that stands out for m...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2013/01/connecting-with-others-vulnerability_18.html

Photo Credit: Nokia Well, I didn't think this would happen so soon. Nokia, a  major multinational manufacturer is backing the use of 3d printing technology to allow anyone to print their own c...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2013/01/nokia-offers-case-designs-to-download.html

Endlich habe ich wieder ein Fahrrad! Jetzt erkunde ich eine neue Seite von Wien.

http://www.karlhorky.com/2013/01/neues-fahrrad.html

Photo Credit: CNIO Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have successfully tested a gene therapy method in mice that allows for an increase in average lifespan of...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/12/anti-aging-gene-therapy-extends-mouse.html

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” -Andy Warho...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/11/dont-think-about-making-art-just-get-it.html

Marcin Jakubowski,  formerly a nuclear physicist, woke up one day and realized that he was "useless" to the world. The world gave him options, but ultimately he was a cog in the machine of cons...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/11/a-civilization-starter-kit-through-open.html

Photo Credit: One Laptop Per Child The One Laptop Per Child organization proposes to use technology as a way to promote self-empowered learning in the developing world. > The One Laptop�...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/11/self-learning-success-box-of-tablets.html

Directed by the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and with a story adapted from David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas, this looks to be an incredible film packed wi...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/09/cloud-atlas-theatrical-trailer-video.html

Fast Co. Design reports about a revolutionary new design for a solar oven intended for use in the developing world to make saltwater drinkable. It requires no electricity or maintenance costs, ...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/08/simple-solar-oven-turns-salt-water-into.html

 Norway recently sentenced Anders Behring Breivik to only 21 years in prison. To a North American sense of punitive justice, this can seem like inadequate punishment for the crime, but it is in...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/08/norway-restorative-justice.html

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” -Bruce Lee

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/07/dont-fear-failure-quote.html

Apple unveiled a new, single-folder-depth file system in the new Mountain Lion OS. At first, it seems like an unnecessary restriction, but after consideration I think the simplification is ...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/07/single-level-folder-depth.html

NASA has just reported a large-scale ice thaw happening in Greenland. With climate patterns shifting almost certainly due to large amounts of greenhouse gases, this could be the start of a shif...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/07/global-warming-greenland-sees-massive.html

Newcomer educational institution Udacity is now offering university-level courses for free online. The course mix has a main focus on computer science, which continues its explosion as an i...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/07/udacity-offers-free-university-level.html

Photo Credit: Ashitaka San The United Nations' Human Rights council passed a resolution Thursday declaring access to the Internet as a basic human right. The resolution received nearly unani...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/07/united-nations-declares-internet-access.html

UPDATE: I've extended my blog post into a full GitHub project, with JavaScript polyfill that switches out tags with the SVG goodness that IE 10 and 11 need: https://github.com/kununu-labs/g...

http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/06/cross-browser-image-grayscale-with-css.html