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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
Old News About the Divided Internet
This fulmination I’ve repeated many times and is about ten years out of date. And it’s full of remarks that people smarter and better paid than me have already long made. My time online is now divided between two realms. … Continue reading
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Education Still Stinks, But Might be Getting Better
About eight years ago I wrote a short essay about how education has remained largely unchanged, aside from the introduction of mass education after the arrival of the printing press, since the Pyramids. This is a particularly bitter pill for … Continue reading
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Particle Accelerators Around Black Holes?
Are extraterrestrial civilizations building particle accelerators around black holes, and can we detect their use? Astrophysicist Brian Lacki at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study speculates that we may actually ask and answer such questions. He proposes that if such … Continue reading
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Accidents Don't Happen
Actually this is another test post to see if this Facebook mirroring nonsense works. Autopublish works just fine with Diaspora*. However the Facebook plugin documentation wasn’t entirely clear so, I forgot a step in getting things to mirror on Facebook. … Continue reading
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So Let's Get to It
It’s been nearly a year and half since my post at the mighty Farlops Industries and instead of boring you with reasons why this happened I’m just going to jump right in. First some highly local news, I’ve added some … Continue reading
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A preliminary review of Roll20
Despite all my quixotic efforts to be the hippest thing on this planet, many things still surprise me. As early as 2003 (and 2005, twice.) I’d been wondering if there were software tools to do bookkeeping and physics for turn-based … Continue reading
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DNA logic gates, Merkle's rod logic gates
So, from various sources, today I learned about a team of molecular biologists at Stanford University who’ve constructed logic gates out of the DNA transcription machinery. There is a video summary with some animations as well. While reading about all … Continue reading
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Why don't I embed video on my site?
Well, this gets into my endless arguments about W3C standards, interoperability and freedom from any proprietary software. But basically I hate Adobe’s Flash utility. Yes, it’s widely supported but, it’s proprietary and, I’d rather not have the Internet held to … Continue reading
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This could be the decade of tiny robots
I’ve just noticed something that has been slowly happening over the last ten or twenty years. New technology and manufacturing techniques will soon make it possible to make millions of tiny machines, perhaps even microscopic robots, cheaply. For example, it … Continue reading
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The Lingering Reasonableness of Alcubierre's Metric
As an aging ex-physics major, knowing just barely enough to glimpse at possible answers but not enough to really know if I’m right–a little knowledge is a dangerous thing because it makes you presumptive that you’ve got all the facts … Continue reading
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