Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
When I was in my late twenties, I ran across a checklist for depression. I was shocked to discover that I had nearly every symptom listed on it, and had for more than twenty years. I got treatment for it and discovered that life was nowhere near as difficult, painful, and pointless as it had …
Knowledge really is power — power that the Internet is moving from governments and large corporations to the people. Nothing I haven’t talked about before, though I’m frankly shocked at how fast it’s happening. Let’s hope that the people use it well.
This is ridiculous: Medical researchers in Oklahoma are offering a no-questions-asked $1,000 reward for the return of a stolen laptop that contains years of research on prostate cancer. […] Has no one heard of backups?! Any time you have data that you can’t afford to lose, you should be making regular backups of it! Preferably …
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You might think otherwise (I certainly did), but apparently no one is hiding anything.
Now that’s what I call applied science! Oh GoddessJ, would you mind terribly if I got one of those? I’ve always wanted to shoot lightning from my fingertips… 😉
I often talk here about science fiction ideas that are now becoming science fact, but it has been happening for a lot longer than I’d realized. Many of the innovations of space travel apparently originated with Jules Verne and were published in 1867 — nearly a hundred years before humans ever rose above the atmosphere. …
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Come on, do people really need neuroimaging to figure out that bullying leaves mental and emotional scars!? Hm, apparently so. Science has finally chiseled another brick out of the walls of ignorance. Too bad there are so many people eagerly mortaring down more on the other side. There are times when I just want to …
After seeing reviews like these for the new version of Ubuntu, I was a bit apprehensive about upgrading. But as usual and despite my attempts to wait, I did so anyway, several days ago. I figured they couldn’t have screwed up the GNOME interface too much, and no matter how bad the new Unity interface …
Science versus superstition. Nothing new, but interesting nonetheless.
No fair, I wanna play with the paramecium! Those scientist guys get all the fun! 😉