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Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“How To Stop Your Personal Wikileaks”
Sit up and pay attention, there will be random pop quizzes later — and if you fail one, your “teacher” will probably steal a good portion of your wealth, with no guarantee that you’ll ever get it back. (I’ve been on the receiving end of credit card fraud three times myself, and I’m ridiculously careful …
“Tentacle Pot Pie”
A little creepy, but it looks delicious. And it just goes to show that you really can find absolutely anything on the Internet. 😉
Antikythera Mechanism Duplicated — in Lego!
The odds are that you’ve heard about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient (2000+ years old) mechanical device that was dredged up off of Greece more than a century ago. Four years ago, scientists finally figured out what it was for, calculating solar eclipses and other celestial events. It was really big news at the time, …
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iGod?
Got any burning theological questions? Now you can get them answered… sort of. They really should put a warning on it though… “iGod cannot authorize crimes, crusades, or jihads.” 😉
“Silencing Wikileaks is silencing the press”
I’m sure some of you have been following the Wikileaks news recently… how the founder and spokesperson for the organization, Julian Assange, has been arrested in England, over an accusation in Switzerland. There are reports, which I haven’t been able to confirm, that the US is trying to criminalize Wikileaks retroactively and get him extradited, …
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“Why Richard Feynman can’t tell you how magnets work”
Have I ever mentioned that the late Richard Feynman is one of my heroes? This is a perfect example of why — he could have taken the easy way out and given a BS answer that would have satisfied the interviewer, but instead he tried to explain why he couldn’t explain it properly, while giving …
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“Many Little Things That Make You Happy are Better Than a Few Big Ones”
There’s a lot of useful research available about what makes people happy. I’ve mentioned some of it on this blog in the past. This is the latest piece. The free availability of all this solid happiness research kind of makes you wonder why so many people still seem so unhappy. But things are getting better, …
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I thought it was just me…
I’ve mentioned that the blog has been hammered with spam attempts recently, but I thought nothing of it — it happens every now and again. And I thought that my own e-mail inbox was getting an abnormally large amount of spam as well, but GoddessJ’s young cousin recently had her Yahoo e-mail account hacked, so …
“NASA Finds New Life”
Major news for space enthusiasts: NASA has found “life as we do not know it” in California! The arsenic-based life form apparently uses completely different metabolic processes from anything else we know of! According to a 1962 article by science and science-fiction giant Isaac Asimov (titled “Not as We Know it: The Chemistry of Life”), …