“Knit hat stabs you in the head if you don’t smile”
And to top it all off (so to speak), it’s called the Happiness Hat. Ouch.
Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Collecting Solar Power, the Black Hole Way”
An interesting way of thinking about things: Light can’t escape a black hole. Some people look at this fact and get the shudders. Others think, “Hey, that would make a really effective solar panel!” Or, rather, it might if not for that whole “massive, crushing force of gravity” problem. […]
“Psychology and Security Resource Page”
Food for thought.
“The Status of the P Versus NP Problem”
“It’s one of the fundamental mathematical problems of our time, and its importance grows with the rise of powerful computers.”
“Privacy”
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, has a unique perspective on the world’s ever-decreasing personal privacy. (Hint: it’s not all bad.)
“A Language of Smiles”
Musings on how the muscles used to enunciate a language might affect the mood of the culture that speaks it. I find this stuff fascinating. (For what it’s worth, I lean toward the “classical conditioning” hypothesis, though the “intrinsic properties” idea could also have merit.)
“Boffins ‘write directly to memory’ of living brains”
Happy Hallowe’en! Here‘s a vaguely Hallowe’en-themed article I stumbled across last week. It’s exciting, but the scary part is what an amoral dictator could do with it once it’s perfected.
“Six diseases you never knew you could catch”
More fascinating research.
“Proving a Computer Program’s Correctness”
It sounds great, but isn’t viable in practice.
“Idle wild: how Intel’s mobile Core i7 speeds up to slow down”
It seems that Intel has found a way around the major complaint about multi-core CPUs, which is that they run single-threaded applications slower than single-core CPUs: they’ve come up with a technology to shut down unused cores to boost the speed on the remaining active cores. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’ll probably help …
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