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Submitted by Quinny from Google Reader: Can't live with 'em. Shouldn't live without 'em. (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

New York Times The themes of this collection are a good way to characterize the author himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning. . (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Weird blogs best of Why is it called The Hague instead of just Hague? New York City has Manhattan and The Bronx. Why not The Manhattan? Or just Bronx? And when did The Ukraine become plain Ukraine? It turns out that place names with definite articles all have a different story to explain the name, and different languages have their own peculia (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Boing Boing This is, I kid you not, the actual title of a paper published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. I love it, because it sounds like it could just as easily be the fan-encyclopedia description of some minor creature from a Lovecraft story. The bees in question are workers from three (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to forever change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Quinny from Google Reader: Storage Ring Dust-UpHigh-energy physicists have finally pinpointed their dust problem. Inside multi-million dollar storage rings, high-speed trains of electrons are often derailed by micron-sized specks of dust. Now a team has shown that dust grains arise from sparks inside a Japanese storage ring, as they report in an upco (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

New York Times A compelling argument against more troops in Afghanistan rests on this trade-off: For the cost of a additional soldier stationed in Afghanistan for a year, nearly 20 schools could be built. . (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Quinny from Google Reader: In a study that not only will cause many responses, but also contradicts many other previous studies, a new report argues that the US does not need more students to pursue STEM subject areas. You can read the actual report in that link, or directly here.The supply has actually remained steady over the past 30 years, the res (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Mashable! Yesterday, NASA was supposed to launch their $445 million rocket prototype, Ares I-X, but the launch was delayed due to bad weather conditions. Today, NASA is poised for a second attempt, with the launch window being 8 a.m. to noon EDT. Just like yesterday, the weather isn’t cooperating, but the launch might still happen if (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

mashable Ah, you kids that were born after 1990 probably have no idea what horrors us geeks of old had to endure in the early days of the Internet. Of course, what was painful then is nothing but a fond memory now, so I’m sure many folks will shed a tear when they see today’s issue of popular online comic XKCD. The execution is perf (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Bill's shared items in Google Reader The above graphic shows missions to mars starting in 1950 to present (top to bottom). Paths are colored by country, and as you can see it's been a lot of missions from Europe and the United States lately. Obviously the farthest we've gone is with the rover with more to come.(I couldn't figure out where the graphic originall (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

FlowingData GOOD magazine's most recent transparency contest asked designers to focus their powers on showing CEO compensation in the United States. The above graphic, by Dee Adams, won top honors. Adams' graphic shows the eight CEOs with the highest compensations and the number of minimum wage earners that each respective CEO's compen (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

The Jason Calacanis Weblog Just got this in… breaking! best, Jason ================ Jason, I thought you might be interested to know that I received an email from one of the Keiretsu chapters [REMOVED] stating that they were changing their policy on presentation fees and that for the time being are waiving all presentation fees for “true startups”. W (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Submitted by Quinny from Google Reader: (image via: Inhabitat)How annoying is it to run out of cell phone power when you’re nowhere near a charger? The Nokia Research Center is working on technology that would allow cell phones to draw juice from ambient radio waves, meaning that you’ll never again be without a charge. The ambient electromagnetic radiation that’s (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

Ryan Tomayko's Writings Programming in a higher-level language, it’s often easy to forget about using lower-level Unix facilities in tricky situations. Here are a few examples to give you an idea of what you might be missing. . (Read More)

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