Sex for fun, IVF for children via New Scientist Tech (“Reproduction revolution”) – – “Will we one day see natural conception as irresponsible?” (tags: future research science) Whitespace via A List Apart (tags: CSS layout webdesign design web typography) 52 Proven Stress Reducers via LifeHack.org (tags: lifehacks health stress productivity)
Free to choose? via Economist.com (via /.): “Liberalism and neurology” – – what does neuroscience tell us about free will? (tags: essay neuroscience todo research) Federal Subsidies Turn Farms Into Big Business (tags: environment food todo)
HappyCodr (indirectly via HiveLogic) a Ruby on Rails Showcase (tags: Ruby Rails web) Moving Through Matter with Buckaroo Banzai via /.: an essay on the physics behind (within?) the film Buckaroo Bonzai… (tags: film geek scifi science essay)
Human DNA is far more varied than thought via New Scientist (tags: science genetics research todo) Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about via OS X Daily (via TUAW) (tags: Mac OSX reference terminal)
Special Report on Brilliant Minds Forecast the Next 50 Years via New Scientist (via B^2) (tags: science evolution future research todo) Facing the Dangers of Nanotech via Technology Review (via /.); “greater inflammatory response” (tags: health science research essay future todo environment)
Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life via /.: Enserink 2006 (1101): 4 — ScienceNOW (tags: science research essay) Quicksilver Does Menus Too via The Apple Blog (via LifeHacker) (tags: Quicksilver hack todo)
Imagine Earth without people via New Scientist (via /.): 12 October 2006 article about human-kind’s dominance on the planet and trying to represent/model what the planet would be like without us (tags: environment future science essay research todo)
Project Orion: unpublished documents (a photoset on Flickr by Xeni) (tags: future history news surreal research) Please Standby Ars Technica article (via /.) about “standby” power consumption, energy and cost savings, and the “1W” initiative – – a “MUST READ” (tags: essay environment energy tech hardware future todo)
Via /.: A new paper out of Cornell (PDF) finds a compelling correlation between TV viewing in young children (3 years old and younger) and incidents of autism. Being no fan of television myself, I’m certainly intrigued by the proposition – – anything to cut down on the television. My problem with the article/thesis/whatever (however) […]
OK, I admit it, this is a blatant B^2 rip but imitation is the highest form of flattery and (let’s face it) this is the choicest quote in the Salon article: SALON: What do you do with consciousness? I mean, do you really think the mind is totally reducible to neural networks and the electro-chemical […]