@JonMountjoy profile picture
Jon Mountjoy @JonMountjoy

Human behaviour, history, evolution, friends, food, genetics, rationality, reason, words, culture, travel and code.

Joined April 2007
  • Tweets 1,358
  • Following 406
  • Followers 1,097
22 Photos and videos
Lovely little animation of Richard Feynman's "Ode To A Flower". Science, adding to beauty. vimeo.com/55874553

Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower

From the BBC Interview for Horizon 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/) Animated by Fraser Davidson (www.sweetcrude.tv).

vimeo.com
1
I just published “Truth, alone, is not sufficient” medium.com/p/truth-alone-is-…
4
I’m learning about genetic modification. Here I write about tasty yoghurt, phages and the beginning of CRISPR blog.jonmountjoy.com/genetic…
4
Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan csicop.org/si/show/ann_druya…
Benevolent dictation. It should be a thing.
1
2
Jon Mountjoy retweeted
Simon Pampena@mathemaniac
1 Mar 2015
Mathematical argument debunks motivational poster
64
2,388
1,601
Jon Mountjoy retweeted
Dropbox API@dropboxapi
23 Jan 2015
.@JonMountjoy from Heroku talking about "ephemeralization" at #dbxhackathon.
1
7
9
Write using only the ten hundred most used words. Nice. splasho.com/upgoer5/

1
1
Jon Mountjoy retweeted
Seamus Heaney@HeaneyDaily
11 Nov 2014
I ate the day Deliberately, that its tang Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb.
1
52
43
Jon Mountjoy retweeted
Pinboard@Pinboard
23 Sep 2014
Antarctic rule of design: heading south on your web page, would Scott have died of exposure before reaching the first line of useful text?
1
53
72
Attention rules: “Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away” —@cshirky medium.com/@cshirky/why-i-ju…” cc @hazelh
Jon Mountjoy retweeted
XKCD Comic
@xkcdComic
29 Aug 2014
Writing Skills xkcd.com/1414/ m.xkcd.com/1414/
3
106
51
Jon Mountjoy retweeted
zeynep tufekci
@zeynep
25 Aug 2014
Replying to @etharkamal
.@etharkamal @facebook 2014: Severed heads on spikes: okay, doesn't violate community standards. No breastfeeding, though.
1
30
9
Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups - fun look at startups from perspective of cultural study. pocket.co/sLbF5
1
2
“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
1
Great article on names and what it means for a name field in a form. w3.org/International/questio… via @ped Not straightforward at all.

1
“We are committed to promoting objective reason .. and improving the human condition through better public policy” - secularcouncil.org/about/mis…
Imagine living in an era where nobody had an explanation for why one could sometimes find sea shells on top of a mountain.
1
4
I once mashed up Yelp & restaurant hygiene results. Now via @mikecoulter “Yelp Reviews Help Track Food Illnesses” buff.ly/1jJFtfa”
Load more