1 month ago
deusx : BBspot - Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute Ready to Start “Squirrel Smasher” - "Scientists currently rely on computer simulations to smash biological units, but simulations can only do so much, and without the visceral enjoyment of seeing two squirrels collide at thousands of miles an hour."
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1 month ago
gleuschk : Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet? - NO (not yet, anyway)
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : How useless is a Chocolate Teapot? - There's only one way to find out… "So a chocolate teapot is really not very useful, but slightly more so than you would expect, which is an interesting reinterpretation of the old adage!" [via] #
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Sciencedebate 2008 - Barack Obama's answers to the top 14 science questions facing America (McCain hasn't answered yet)
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Psychologist invents new uber-wiki - uber is a strong word
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2 month ago
deusx : Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News - "Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units."
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2 month ago
deusx : Judge says UC can deny religious course credit - "A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution. ... Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of fr
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gleuschk : Candidates Vow To Keep Politics Out Of Science : NPR - good lip service at least, though I'd rather they committed to keeping science in politiics. whatever happened to the science debates we were going to have?
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Sciencewomen : A reckless proposal, or "Scientists are people too, and it's time we started treating them that way." - thoughts about childcare and professional travel. I wonder if my dept would reimburse for childcare?
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : The Big Picture on CERN's Large Hadron Collider - The Economist explains the LHC's importance for the layman
nelson : Large Hadron Collider - Great pictures
Simon Willison : Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Large Hadron Collider nearly ready—The Big Picture. Stunningly beautiful set of photographs of the LHC. I love Big Science.
jonhicks : Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - Beautiful photos of the device that will swallow us all up in a black hole
Rod Begbie : Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - I'm bored of "beauty in nature" -- Hurrah for The Big Picture covering beauty in science! Enjoy these photos before they turn the collider on, and we all get sucked into black hole. #
Greg Storey : If for some reason the Earth gets sucked into a black hole this weekend... - here's why.
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4 month ago
gleuschk : in action: a skyscraper's amazing 728-ton stabilising ball | deputydog - zowie
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4 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete: "Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great..."
Linkorama : The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - Sounds like yet another kind of model to me
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4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Bad Science: Money money money money money - Ben Goldacre on the experiments that show that humans are happier with things that cost them more money. I suggest naming this "the Bose effect". #
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4 month ago
deusx : Overcoming Bias: Joy in the Merely Real - "You might say that scientists - at least some scientists - are those folk who are in principle capable of enjoying life in the real universe."
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gleuschk : Human egg makes accidental debut on camera - whoa, ovulations caught on film. I'll never eat salmon roe again
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : xkcd's Fields Arranged by Purity -
gleuschk : xkcd - fields arranged by purity - an old joke, but still true
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4 month ago
gleuschk : TED Talks: The universe on a string - Brian Greene
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deusx : Hairy blobs found in acidic hell - "Kathleen Benison, a geologist at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, led a team that studied the sediments formed by acidic and very salty lakes in modern day Western Australia, and those deposited around 250 million years ago in North Dako
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deusx : Op-Ed Contributor - Put a Little Science in Your Life - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable — a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is emp
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5 month ago
nelson : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Follow the lander
Simon Willison : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Twitter / MarsPhoenix. NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, due to land on the planet today, has a Twitter account. Bio: “I dig Mars!”.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Fight for the Life Of the Mind - Like most clichés, it contains a grain of truth but greatly exaggerates the case. Above all, it fails to make the crucial distinction between actual knowledge (i.e. rationally justified true belief) and purported knowledge.
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5 month ago
deusx : Einstein writes of 'childish superstition' - "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) ch
Andy Baio : New Einstein letter elaborates on his views of religion - he rejects it as "childish superstition," but also disliked the hubris of atheism [via]
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5 month ago
deusx : Blocks and Files - Data recovered from Seagate drive in Columbia shuttle disaster - "The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing."
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6 month ago
gleuschk : WNYC - Radiolab: Sleep (May 25, 2007) - fantastic, fantastic radio.
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6 month ago
plasticbag : Delightful news: Homosexual Geneticists have discovered the cause of Christianity - Pretty funny as politically charged satires on the horrors of anti-gay rhetoric go. It's not quite as clever as I think it thinks it is. Some of the analogies are a bit forced and hurt their own message. Still, enjoyable.
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