May 28, 2010
Aug 4, 2009
Seeing in stereo 48 years later
Seeing In Stereo: Scientific American
Sue Barry discusses what it's like to live in a 2-D world and explains how she learned to see in stereo.
Apr 20, 2009
13 things that do not make sense to science
13 things - New Scientist
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I can only pretend to understand this in the most basic of ways but I enjoyed reading it for the "I knew that" factor.
Jan 26, 2009
Zombies, they're everywhere.
Mark Roth's Proof of Reincarnation - Scientist Bringing Back the Dead - Esquire
This is a fun read about a science guy. Seriously.
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Jul 23, 2008
Paper electronics?
First paper-based transistors
To me this is the kind of thing that makes me feel that exponential increase in technology innovation that Kurzweil talks about.
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Jul 22, 2008
The Google Way of Science
Kevin Kelly- The Technium
"There's a dawning sense that extremely large databases of information, starting in the petabyte level, could change how we learn things. The traditional way of doing science entails constructing a hypothesis to match observed data or to solicit new data. Here's a bunch of observations; what theory explains the data sufficiently so that we can predict the next observation?"
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Jul 21, 2008
You put the lime in the...
Open source Earth saving.
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Cquestrate Intro Video from cquestrate on Vimeo.
Jul 16, 2008
Jun 13, 2008
Oh mister Sun, Sun, mister golden sun...
Where are the Sunspots? Are we in for a Quiet Solar Cycle? | Universe Today
"Is it a ticking bomb, waiting to shock us with a huge jump in solar activity, flares and CMEs over a few months? Or could this lack of activity a prelude to a very boring few years, possibly leading the Earth toward another Ice Age?"
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Jun 9, 2008
Jun 5, 2008
No strings attached
Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation - Telegraph
Yay, what a great way to start the day, levitation and nanotech in the same article.
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