Topics on my particular interests.
When I was a kid, I went to school with a girl with dyslexia. She tried to explain it to me once, but I wasn’t really able to figure it out. After reading this article, it makes a lot more sense. It also makes sense of the condition from an evolutionary perspective, for me — …
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! The changes below are NOT RECOMMENDED! See part III for details! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! It’s been several weeks since I touched on this subject last, and I’m sorry to say that the solution I came up with in the earlier article just wasn’t good enough. It was forcing the system to swap, …
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A science-fiction film actually made in orbit. Talk about… wait for it… a match made in heaven. 😉
Good God… someone actually advocating an intelligent solution to movie piracy, in a mainstream business magazine?! Unbelievable! Listen up, Hollywood. As an independent software developer, I’ve been dealing with Internet piracy for longer than you — without a single lawyer, let alone an army of them, and often on a shoestring budget. The facts in …
Continue reading ‘“You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You”’ »
This sort of thing might have come directly from a science-fiction action story, where the hero is patched up in an unbelievably short time between epic space battles. Who says the future is always far away? 😉
I’ve often wondered if there might be a way to harness the placebo effect to actually help people get better. It seems that I’m not the only one, either.
“Designer ice cubes“? More proof that life imitates art, I guess. 😉
“US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots“. Ouch. I’ve often thought that today’s conservatives weren’t the brightest bulbs on the whole, and wondered whether there was some causal link there, but to have it bluntly spelled out like that is pretty damning. Maybe these studies should be publicized a lot more. Nobody …
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I have decidedly mixed feelings about this. Like any tool, it could be either good or evil depending on who wields it, but the amount of power it provides greatly amplifies both possible outcomes — and in another five or ten years, it will probably be available to anyone who’s willing to spend the money. …
Continue reading ‘“Incoming! Self-guiding bullet could strike from a mile away”’ »
I never thought that I’d live to see a working Star Trek-esque medical tricorder, but it seems that I might… at least a poor-man’s version of one, that requires placing a sample on or in the device. Even better, the smartphones we’re toting around today might already have all the hardware needed, if I’m reading …
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