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Now THIS is an inspired space policy.
“Send thousands of robots. Little robots – cheap ones that are disposable. More robots than NASA can manage. … It’s Juggalo science in Iran. “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Makes me wonder what those Icelandic women were up to to cause the volcano. A volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier is erupting. Here’s a Flickr pool of photos. Attribution: Some really nice big images at the Boston Globe. The Wikipedia page updates the event as info rolls in. Images from NASA.
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CC Ulrich Latzenhofer This fellow, Jem Stansfield, from the BBC One show Bang Goes the Theory decides he wants to use the power of cheap vacuum cleaners to help him climb walls like Spiderman. Intel is saying that we’ll regularly be using brainwaves to control our computers by 2020. I think the headline of this article is way off: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020. This isn’t about implanting chips into your brain. If there must be an implant it will probably be more like an RFID VeriChip [...] Big Picture blogger, economist, CEO, pundit, and all-around capitalist Barry L. Ritholtz gives one of the best definitions of science I’ve seen in awhile on his Big Picture blog. In this post on the hubris of Economics Ritholtz roundly criticizes mainstream economists. “Hard ‘science’ — Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and all variants thereto — begins humbly. [...] More poetry! This from pioneering scientist, attorney general, philosopher, and poet Lord Francis Bacon. When Bacon learned about the European discovery of the lands in the western hemisphere, he wrote The New Atlantis (1627) where he imagined a nation that gave greater rights to women, abolished slavery, eliminated debtors’ prisons, separated church and state, and provided freedom [...] Hmmm, if there was only some way to cut through the BS, the politics, the hyperbole, the astroturf, and the inexpert opinion about climate change. Where can we turn to find out what real climate scientists really think about the human influence on climate change? I know! What if we did a survey asking people with [...] JS pointed me to this cool story about the power of the sun. The Carrington Super Flare In 1859… “Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes [...] If your tax dollars pay for research, you should have access to that information (as long as it doesn’t endanger national security). Sounds reasonable? Not according to Robert Wexler. Wexler is co-sponsor to the Orwellian-named Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (HR 801). The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act restricts federal agencies from sharing research [...] Seven lectures from one of the great minds of the 20th century. These lectures were given at Cornell University in 1964 and broadcast on the BBC. Feynman would win the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics the following year. The Wall Street Journal ran an article about umami last Saturday. “Americans are taught from an early age that there are four basic tastes — sweet, salty, sour and bitter. But what describes the taste of chicken soup? To an increasing number of chefs and food-industry insiders, the answer is “umami,” dubbed “the fifth taste.” First identified [...] |
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