Thursday, September 30, 2010

Warp drives and extracting energy from information

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I'm behind the curve on metamaterials (emphasis mine) ... Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: How to Build a Warp Drive Using Metamat...

A habitable planet around Gliese 581

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Twenty light years away an  ancient largeish planet is tidally locked to a red giant . The star system is about 9 billion years old.  Time...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

iPad Mathematica and Rainbow's End

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Rainbow's End  (2006) was a bit of a disappointment compared to Fast Times at Fairmont High, but Vinge still did a good job of anticipat...

Newfoundland hammered by hurricane

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Not only was a born in Canada, I spent a formative two months as a medical student in St. Anthony Newfoundland. So if there'd been any...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Trust and credential management: MyOpenID

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I've been preoccupied lately with credential (un/password) management . I think the geek community has gotten confused by identity manag...

The morality of markets - and a response to hunger

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There is no Good in markets  Krugman writes. It's short and good, and it should be read in every high school as an antidote to Marketari...
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The cultural impact of the Pill - neuroendocrinology

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Modern imaging methods show hormonal contraceptive use changes brain structures . That's interesting. It means it's now probably s...

The smartest president in decades

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Obama comments on Murdoch's empire ... 'Destructive' Fox News And The 'Darker' Parts Of The Tea Party: Obama's Roll...
Monday, September 27, 2010

The $80 ultra-portable - in unexpected form

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Jean-Louis Gassée, once CEO of Apple head of Mac development, drops a stunner in mid-column ... The Carriers’ Rebellion | Monday Note ... G...
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In Our Time - the number series

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This IOT season starts with bang. In the first 3 minutes of Imaginary Numbers our guest professor runs through thousands of years of the de...

Progress

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We glass-half-empty-but-that's-good-because-it's-poisoned sorts need to say something positive once in a while. WiFi is much better ...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

A Google-Apple detente - why?

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It's not just the  return of GV Mobile . It's also changes in Apple's advertising revenue model, a general quieting of Apple-Goo...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Why the Pope is crazed -- the infographic

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I Google-Reader-Shared a blog post on this  British Religion in Numbers  graph ... I moved on to the next post, but the more I thought abo...

The Great Waste: Cyclical, Structural, or Both?

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Structural unemployment occurs when the skills and culture of the workforce are a bad match for the demands of the market. For Marketarians ...

Why it hurts to read the right

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This is not painful to read ... John Gordon is not of my tribe. My God says all who are not of my tribe should be enslaved. John Gordon mu...