About 6 months ago (you may recall), Google announced their Google Suggest beta project – – the idea being that they’ll “suggest” the top hits for a given string. So, with my interest piqued, I blogged the alphabet according to Google. More of a curiosity than anything else… I guess I’m not surprised that it’s […]
New Scientist article on/interview with Jane Goodall – – the patron saint of modern primate studies. A fascinating woman with a fascinating story.
A Slashdot thread to return to when the post-evolution thread gets under official way. This thread of course assumes evolutions still applies to humans. And/or the usual transhumanist garbage.
Another one for the “post-evolutionary debate”: How tech could replace the US healthcare system…
Filing away this Wired article for when the evolution theory showdown w/ A gets under way.
BoingBoing post on fMRI and “reading minds” with it. Balderdash! Even more so than PET scans, fMRI is fast gaining a reputation among molecular neuroscientists as little more than voodoo. As consumers of science, we must be careful with studies like these. The unfortunate truth about fMRI is that many scientists doing this research are […]
Slick entry over on Sterling’s “Beyond the Beyond” re: speculative biomorphic skyscraper renderings and models etc. My favorite: (No caption there or elsewhere that I could find. Wild stuff though!)
The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you’ve had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy. currently […]
Popular Science posts their 2nd annual Worst Jobs in Science list. ormally, researchers would use a centrifuge to extract fluids to be tested. But this is the one way in which the tampon is not an optimal specimen-collecting tool, because its true purpose is to hold liquid in. “Optimal recovery,” Garland says, “requires manual squeezing.” […]
This one was keeping me up the other night… What *is* the highest priority item on the human moral/ethical agenda? And how should this highest of priorities be executed? Is the agenda the protection of human life? Or the protection of civilization? To assist each other? Or sustain? Produce? Or reproduce? This assumes in the […]