How Cosmic! My #ff early coffee story: Penrose claims to have glimpsed universe before Big Bang

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WMAP's view of the past: can it see beyond the Big Bang?

"Circular patterns within the cosmic microwave background suggest that space and time did not come into being at the Big Bang but that our universe in fact continually cycles through a series of "aeons". That is the sensational claim being made by University of Oxford theoretical physicist Roger Penrose, who says that data collected by NASA's WMAP satellite support his idea of "conformal cyclic cosmology". This claim is bound to prove controversial, however, because it opposes the widely accepted inflationary model of cosmology.
According to inflationary theory, the universe started from a point of infinite density known as the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, expanded extremely rapidly for a fraction of a second and has continued to expand much more slowly ever since, during which time stars, planets and ultimately humans have emerged. That expansion is now believed to be accelerating and is expected to result in a cold, uniform, featureless universe.
Penrose, however, takes issue with the inflationary picture and in particular believes it cannot account for the very low entropy state in which the universe was believed to have been born – an extremely high degree of an order that made complex matter possible. He does not believe that space and time came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang but that the Big Bang was in fact just one in a series of many, with each big bang marking the start of a new "aeon" in the history of the universe...."

Brian Newman tells it like is it now: SpringBoardMedia: Stop making docs

Friday, November 19, 2010

Stop making docs

Yo, you. Shut up, listen. I don’t want your (feature) doc anymore.

I know, you are offended. So what?

Make me a really interesting website, that happens to have maybe 20 minutes total of video. In 3 minute segments. Let me trade it, use it, share it, on my phone. Let it actually have an impact instead of just stroking your and your funder’s egos. Let it be interesting and aware of today’s realities. Let it be useful. Let it never play a film festival. Ever.

Do this, and I will love you. And so will everyone else.

I’m not saying everyone should do this, but you should. Yes, you. Thanks.

How Influential is Ashton Kutcher's iPhone? Very: Fashism Raises $1 Million from Ashton Kutcher, Ron Conway & Others

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original post by Lauren Indvik:

"Social shopping site and mobile application Fashism, which we profiled about a year ago, announced Friday that it has raised $1 million in a Series A round of fundraising from actor-couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Project Runway judge Nina Garcia, Highline Venture Partners, Ron Conway’s SV Angel and two others.

It certainly explains why Fashism’s app appeared on a recent screenshot of Ashton Kutcher’s iPhone, alongside the apps of other startups he has recently invested in, such as Flipboard and Hipmunk..."