Science
November 21, 2009
- Since becoming a published (and now award winning) author, I have met some wonderful and highly talented authors within the Mid-South area and even beyond. One such author is Stephanie Osborn who resides in Huntsville, AL and is the author of the book BURNOUT: The Mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281. After listening to Stephanie’s pitch about the book during the course of attending several ...
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November 18, 2009
- It's an intriguing idea, but would you eat lab-grown meat? See how it's made. Imagine the delicious mix & match possibilities: chork, bork or peef, fimp, crobster, muckon (duck & mutton), escargobster... More amazing crossbreeds at Vinaminh's blog.
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November 8, 2009
- I did not choose Claude Levi-Strauss; he was thrust upon me. Structuralism was far from my mind when I was gifted a bunch of his books. A couple of academicians were arguing over the merits of burdening me, a work in progress, with the abstractions of totemism. The argument did not take place across the table. The two individuals did not know each other. I carried the messages to and fro and ...
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November 4, 2009
- The world, in which we live today, has become so permissive, that we see put into practice the most unthinkable experiences, and people behave in the most foolish way. Are we ready to accept, one day, the consequences of the craziest of our actions? We think that Nature, which has never been mishandled as it is the case today, would never strike back. But this assumed certainty seems to be ...
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November 4, 2009
- Simply creating intelligent machines (artificial intelligences, aka AI's) is not only the goal of scientists anymore, and it shouldn't be. Scientists are finding an AI's ability to socially interact and learn from human contact is more important to the future of technology and mankind than its ability to serve.Why? Dr Lola Cañamero, of the University of Hertfordshire's School of Computer Science ...
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November 3, 2009
- I have nothing against humanoids or humans for that matter, but the world’s first Arabic-speaking interactive robot has no business to be named Ibn Sina, philosopher and scientist.The United Arab Emirates University unveiled this marvel, developed by a team headed by a Greek expat, Nikolaos Mavridis, who said, “There is a number of things he can do on his own: answer a couple of questions, ...
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October 28, 2009
- We are opening our doors! The concept is a conservatory where the archetypes method is used as an organizing principle for all work.Our curriculum opens with a weekly Friday night "AW Movie Night," where we will watch a "UoD" movie from the list in the book. UoD movies contain two worlds or "universes of discourse" which interact in a particular way. ...
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October 27, 2009
- If we thought we were human, then wait. Our ancestors could have got into the sack with Neanderthals in some of those weak moments that make us human, to begin with. It was probably 33,000 years ago, but it’s not such a long time considering the speed at which sperms travel and make home in ovaries. Therefore, residual genes might well be residing in us. That ought to make us less than human ...
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October 21, 2009
- I've never tried it before, but the idea of tackling a story in the world of science fiction is now becoming more than an idea. I found a place yesterday that is looking for short stories and if they accept the one I'm writing, will sell it as an ebook on Amazon. So I began writing a story that is so much different in reference to my normal action adventure world, but I think it's going ...
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October 16, 2009
- Studying mirages, light formations and optical illusions today and found a very cool "moving" illusion and the following information, from Andy Young's "An Introduction to Mirages." "Sometimes people think that the erect image of a classical mirage is “the object itself,” and that the inverted one is “just a mirage,” and somehow not real. But this notion is ...
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