Topics on my particular interests.
Wow… three new battery technologies that sound awesome. If they all pan out, rechargeable batteries could charge up to 90% capacity in two minutes, have three times their current battery life (six times for “mobile gadgets”!), and be lighter as well! Imagine a full-powered laptop that’s lighter and would last several work days on a …
I wonder how this plays out in peoples’ politics? (No I don’t, I know exactly how it plays out. And if you think about it, so do you. But I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader, along with the corollary of what it says about a those who subscribe to a particular political …
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I like this idea, at least for learning musical instruments. I almost hope that it doesn’t advance much further for now though, I’d hate to see the result of getting a virus in the controlling computer. 😉
You might have seen this guy, he was a guest on a lot of shows after he won the US Memory Championship earlier this year. Memory training is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. I really think that schools should have one mandatory class every year devoted to it. Of course, it’ll …
Remember that scammer I reported playing with a few months ago? Well, apparently one of his many brothers-in-crime didn’t get the memo about me. I picked up the phone earlier this month and found myself talking to another very-heavily-accented man, who again tried to tell me that my computer was infected. I briefly considered playing …
When we did this sort of thing as children, it was called playing… 😉 (Nice to see that humanity is still working toward interplanetary exploration, though.) EDIT, same day: Here‘s an article that coincidentally appeared today, on the entire facility that houses the Mars 500 project. There’s a lot more there than was mentioned in …
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Cancer is now the leading cause of death, but if these guys have their way, that will change in the next decade. There will come a time when suicide is the most common cause of death. You’ll be able to live as long as you wish to. The only good excuse for death right now …
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You know, if you tried to make up something like this, you’d be laughed out of the room, but somehow it becomes perfectly acceptable when someone really does it.
Legalize the giving, but not the receiving, of bribes, giving the briber every incentive to report the bribee — including getting his bribe money back. I have to admire the guy who came up with this. The only reason to criminalize the giving of a bribe is moralistic outrage, a system like this would be …
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What’s your earliest memory? It has always struck me as curious that no one remembers anything from when they were really young. I have vivid memories from when I was six years old on, but only a handful from before that, most tied to strong emotions or discomfort, or (strangely enough) the layouts of the …