Seenapse

Aquí esta una  aplicación llamada Seenapse, creada por el  publicista Rafael Jimenez y pensada principalmente en ser una herramienta para creativos. Es una suerte de nueva red social basada en conexiones de ideas y asociaciones mentales. No es dificl ver el potencial de esto, dado lo importante que es hoy en dia la creatvidad -como búsqueda de nuevas ideas- y la información bien organizada…

Seenapse is a new platform designed to help inspire new, non-obvious combinations.

As I may have mentioned before, I believe ideas are a certain kind of thing.

I think that Genius Steals, that ideas are new combinations, that originality is a myth, and that the best, most interesting, most attention earning ideas, exist at the very fringes.

The least obvious combinations that still solves the problem is more effective, because it is less obvious, therefore more interesting. More creative, if you will.  Our abillity to create associations between seemingly non-related ideas is a fundamental aspect of how brains work.

It’s what makes metaphors powerful and why metaphors are so important to how we think, seeing non-obvious similarity in different things…

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Seenapse

Why barns are red

Los graneros son rojos por la forma en que se mueren las estrellas…
Suena a poesía pero no, aquí va la explicación de esto.
Me encantan este tipo de inter-conexiones inusuales entre cosas que en apariencia son totalmete ajenas. Como decían en el Circulo de Viena: “el conocimiento es uno”…

We all know that barns are usually red. But why? Well, the answer is a little more complicated than you might think, but basically it’s because of nuclear fusion.

Googler Yonatan Zunger took the time to explain the whole thing in great detail on Google+, and the train of thought goes a little something like this:

• Barns are red because red paint is the cheapest and easiest to make.
• Red paint is the cheapest and easiest to make because the ground is loaded with an iron-oxide compound called red orche. (or basically, rust)
• The ground is loaded with red ochre because when stars die, physics dictates they generate a bunch of iron and explode.

It’s that step where things get a little more complicated. Zunger explains it this way:

[When a star dies, it] starts to shrink. And as it shrinks, the pressure goes up, and the temperature goes up, until suddenly it hits a temperature where a new reaction can get started. These new reactions give it a big burst of energy, but start to form heavier elements still, and so the cycle gradually repeats, with the star reacting further and further up the periodic table, producing more and more heavy elements as it goes.

Until it hits 56. At that point, the reactions simply stop producing energy at all; the star shuts down and collapses without stopping. This collapse raises the pressure even more, and sets off various nuclear reactions which will produce even heavier elements, but they don’t produce any energy: just stuff…

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Why barns are red