Another gem from Matt Ridley. Ecology and Change: Nature Has No ‘Balance’ for Us to Keep – Mind & Matter – WSJ.com: Academic ecologists have abandoned such a static way of thinking for something much more dynamic. For a start,…
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Evidence of Progress – Genome Style
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Quoting Maria Popova … “The human genome took 10 years and $2.7 billion to sequence, and now a $900 technology can do it in 15 minutes.” – Maria Popova To wit. Where we came from: 10 YEARS: The amount of…
Did Bees Solve the Travelling Salesman Problem?
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The travelling salesman problem is one of the legendary problems in computer science. [Update 03.06.12: via John D. Cook: "We have an embarrassment of computational riches when we can solve traveling salesmen problems on a phone."] And it looks like…
Book Review: The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
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While reading something a while back I saw a reference to The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton. Not only was I not familiar with the book, I had never heard of the author. Months ago I bought the…
Can You Pick The Stradivarius?
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Great story. (pic via Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) There might be a lesson in here for $50 HDMI cables, $120 AC power cords, $100 speaker cables, and $600 headphones. Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad? : Deceptive Cadence :…
The Microprocessor at 40 – The Birth of Electronics
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Four great columns from Jack Ganssle of Embedded magazine. If you’re in IT, or interested in ham radio, you’ll love these columns. “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that…
Did The BBC Fake Footage re: Climate Change?
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Apparently it’s not only Fox News that’s capable of such shenanigans. Definitely click-through and read. (pic via UK Mirror) BBC Faked Polar Bear Footage re Climate Alarmism – The Beacon: As if the climate alarmist scams revealed in Climategate I…
Do You Stand With Science?
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Do you stand with science? Because the implication in this video is that if you don’t support government “investment” in science, you’re anti-science. I think everyone, regardless of position in this debate, would agree that there is some optimal level…
Matt Ridley on Climate Change and Scientific Heresy
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He has some great points. And from what I’ve read of Ridley in the past, he’s a level headed science-based guy. Not some right-wing nut. Via Reason. I was not always such a ‘lukewarmer’. In the mid 2000s one image…
Quantum Levitation Blows My Mind
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This is amazing. I thank God that I live in a world with MANY people smarter than I am. Thanks to Dr. Rizzo for the link.