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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
Life emerging around red dwarfs
So our telescopes and probes are discovering estimated billions of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones around red dwarfs in our galaxy. Naively I’d think this would be good for the Drake Equation’s estimates of intelligent, technological civilizations in the … Continue reading
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More blathering about decentralized, interoperable social networks
So, since many of my friends overseas or far away are there, I’m forced to use Facebook. I find Facebook objectionable for many reasons, most of which, most people don’t care about. Facebook has a lot of powerful functions and … Continue reading
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Why I love science.
This was originally written as my response to this page. I felt I was eloquent enough to repeat my rant here. Since this is one the deepest parts of myself and my personality, I could rant on and on about … Continue reading
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Tabletop RPGs on the Internet
So over the last few months, I’ve been using VoIP to join in tabletop RPG sessions with friends around the world. With players in Bahrain, Thailand, NYC and San Diego, we’ve been running play sessions nearly every alternate Thursday for … Continue reading
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Size limitations in cell biology
So I’m not as well read in biology news as I am in physics news but occasionally I read news in biological research that is just fascinating to me. Extremophile creatures, critters that live in very dry, very hot, very … Continue reading
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Sometimes physics comes up with the best acronyms
This just in for news of big scary machines of physics–something called, innocently enough, the Extreme Light Infrastructure. The ELI is a very powerful laser array that will concentrate 200 petawatts of laser power into a very small space-time in … Continue reading
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It was never merely about population
Sometime this year Earth’s human population passed 7 billion people. Sometime this year, for the first time, more than 50% of humanity lived in cities and towns. The predictions are that humanity’s population will peak around 10 billion or so … Continue reading
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Can Technology Change Human Nature?
Yes, I think it can. Some have argued no. They say you could use a time machine and take baby from ancient China and raise it in our modern world. This baby would adapt just perfectly fine or at least … Continue reading
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Neurosynaptic silicon chips
So I just learned that IBM has built a new kind of experimental silicon chip that more closely models how neurons process and communicate information. Now, as a hard science fiction nerd, I’ve talked about computational neurology and the Blue … Continue reading
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Thinking about getting myself a toy!
So back in May, after serving her well for 10 years, the power supply on my mother’s venerable Dell Optiplex (Which was a very well made machine in my opinion.) finally died. So I told her, we could go hunting … Continue reading
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