Thursday, September 07, 2006

The extinction of the northern animals

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Animals are shifting to higher elevations and more northern latitudes in the UK... BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | British species migrate north...

On Mars: hysterical success

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This has gone beyond astonishing into the realm of hysteria. Beyond all the mess of life on earth one of the two Mars rovers closes in on ye...

Global climate change: it's time to think radical

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Scientific American’s global climate change issue (9/06) outlined a painful and politically almost inconceivable approach to keeping terres...

General weirdness on the net: ultrasound, autism and satire

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This is weird. On August 7th Yale researchers published an article purporting to show a subtle derangement of neuronal migration in mouse fe...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Mental illness, Zubaydah and the Republican right

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DeLong contrasts Bush's description of Abu Zubaydah with Don (One Percent Doctrine) Suskind's description . Briefly, Bush claims Zub...

Greylisting: slouching towards weighted reputations of sending services

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Years ago, I pointed out that the right way to deal with spam was d ifferential filtering based on the managed reputatation of the sending s...

HyperScope: Does innovation live?

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Shades of the 1990s, HyperScope is a reimplementation of classic hypertext and information representation in modern browser-side Ajax. Mayb...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Attacking Inequality: Redistributing wealth

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When the NYT hid its main editorialists behind a $50/year paywall, I put the WaPo OpEd column on my news page . Mostly I've been disappo...

Windows Live OneCare: Firefox? What's that?

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This is what Firefox users get when they sign up for the Windows Live OneCare trial: In order to complete installation of Windows Live OneCa...
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Dogs and non-euros

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Our beautiful and very friendly looking, but somewhat irascible dog (Molly), died. We now have a somewhat demonic looking (Kateva) but actu...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

Vinge and Kurzweil on the Singularity

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Update: It's Vinge and Doctorow, now Vinge and Kurzweil. David Brin pointed to KurzweilAI note marketing Vinge and Kurzweil talking to N...
Friday, September 01, 2006

The crash of Comair 5191: fatigue and economic pressures

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Salon's resident pilot-journalist, Patrick Smith, has written the best review of the recent Comair 5191 crash I've seen. This commen...

In Our Time: 18th Century Politeness and Reproductive Fitness

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Lord Bragg and his guests are in fine form in this episode of the BBC’s  In Our Time : BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Politeness ... At the st...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

What is Senator Ted Stevens hiding?

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A rare bipartisan motherhood and apple pie bill is killed in the senate. The murderer? TPMmuckraker August 30, 2006 01:59 PM ... A spokesma...

Lifespan is random

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I'm very surprised. The data from human and animal studies seems very strong. Lifespan is pretty random and not clearly related to genet...