Category Archives: science

What half a Large Hadron Collider gets you

March 16, 2005 – 1:45 pm

Check out the “Kyoto count-up” feature in the sidebar at Luboš Motl’s physics blog. Excellent!

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Millions now living will never die

March 14, 2005 – 4:16 pm

There’s been some gum-flapping lately here and here (there are multiple posts, so I’ll let you find ‘em if you care to - you’ve probably already read more of them than I bothered to) wrt transhumanism and the issues revolving around “human nature”. My take on human nature: who cares? I hate to resort to [...]

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hogthrob

February 25, 2005 – 8:51 am

The wireless pig project.
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/hogthrob/
(ok, I’m on the embedded powerpc linux developers mailing list, and this guy from iotech.dk posted, and I checked out his company web page, and they’re collaborating on this research project…)

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They can’t prove it, but…

January 6, 2005 – 10:25 am

This is pretty cool:
Great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have either the evidence or arguments for it (Diderot called it having the “esprit de divination”). What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
The 2005 Edge Question has generated many eye-opening responses from a “who’s who” of third culture [...]

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Thing which may interest only me

November 22, 2004 – 12:17 pm

Something that was never mentioned (that I recall) in any physics classes I took…
It turns out that Lorentz contraction (though not time dilation) can be predicted without recourse to special relativity. If you do enough horrible math, you can show that Maxwell’s Equations require that hunks o’ matter composed of particles which solely interact [...]

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The pi-and-e Shower Stall

November 19, 2004 – 12:43 pm

Jonathan Rees’ house in Arlington has The pi-and-e Shower Stall

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Waging a silent war on western civilization

October 20, 2004 – 12:53 am

Reagan, vindicated yet again:
A number of factors have combined to increase volatile organic compounds (VOCs) air pollution from trees faster than VOC pollution from humans has declined.
The truth is plain to see: Nature is dangerous and needs to be brought under greater human control so that we can have a safer and cleaner environment. This [...]

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