{"id":35054,"date":"2011-05-08T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/can%e2%80%99t-really-blame-them-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:25","slug":"can%e2%80%99t-really-blame-them-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/can%e2%80%99t-really-blame-them-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t Really Blame Them | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very excited to learn that my talk from TEDxCaltech<\/a> is featured on the TED home page today. They have their own comment thread<\/a>, and in a couple of weeks we’ll have a live call-in “conversation with the speaker” deal. If the Twitters are to be believed, these TED talks are pretty darn popular.<\/p>

The talk is a punchy, 15-minute version of my usual cosmology-and-the-arrow-of-time schtick. Glad to see the arrow of time get some more publicity; sophisticated Cosmic Variance<\/em> readers know all about it, but not everyone is so lucky. When Brian Cox did an episode of Wonders of the Universe<\/a> that discussed the arrow of time, the comments were all “Wow, what an amazing concept, never heard of that!” Obviously reading the wrong blogs.<\/p>

But I can’t help but notice something about the presentation on the TED home page<\/a>…<\/p>

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Each talk is advertised by an image from the video; in most cases it’s a picture of the speaker actually giving the talk. But for mine, they (wisely) went with the Hubble Deep Field<\/a>.<\/p>

Lesson: you can’t compete with the universe! It’s bigger, smarter, and prettier, too.<\/p>

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