Saturday, November 30, 2013

Reminders

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AVI recently posted on the spiritual gift of "Reminding" . He noticed that he rarely learned anything new from Bible reading and ...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Catacombs

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Going to Italy is not in our budget anytime soon. But Google Maps has gotten there already, and no stress on my knee!
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Distributed detection of chemical weapons

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Cell phones for chemical weapons detection? The idea seems reasonable enough--if the technology is cheap enough and the drain on batteries ...

Be sure to wear your helmet when playing in the driveway

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Son hit by meteorites? It could be, though I'd want things checked a bit more closely. How hard did the objects hit the boy? We can e...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Imagining a world without antibiotics

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You've probably read it already; if not, do so. I'd be long dead without antibiotics: several bouts of pneumonia plus other kid st...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

IceCube

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No, my name is not on the paper. Local paper report Some other details, and an "interview" with Claudio and Naoko (she had a cut...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Process theology

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The subject came up recently, and I've been trying to learn a little about it. If I understand process theology's principles correc...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Typing one-handed

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is very error-prone. I remember a suggestion that the superior quality of older letters was partly due to having extra time to think every ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Oswald

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In commemoration of the Kennedy assassination, BBC dug up stories of Oswald's life in Russia . Oswald basked in the attention of being...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Round world

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When did people learn that the world was round? The Greeks figured it out and taught the West and the Arabs, and I presume the Indians as w...
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Supertime speculation

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I referred to the science fiction notion of humanity as a psychically linked collective organism in a previous post . If that were the case...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Technological decline

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Via Not Even Rocket Science : some interesting notes on Tasmanian technological decline . Summary of the situation: after rising seas se...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Pehn-Pehn Ban

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Recently Liberia decided to ban the motorcycle taxis that have been serving Monrovia. They are cheap, often overloaded, and if you can bel...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

All Things Considered

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The whole is here , but for your edification: Real pain, as in the case of being burnt at Smithfield or having a toothache, is a positive t...
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Saturday, November 09, 2013

OTC

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I don't know why I'd have thought so, but I generally expect pain relievers to kick in as soon as the drug hits the bloodstream, or ...
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Roaches

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I'm trying to decide if I care about the robot roach kit . Backyard Brains offers a Bluetooth "backpack" kit you can attach t...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

Supertime for fun

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I went off on a tangent on one of AVI’s posts and thought it might be amusing to pull it all together cleanly to describe a science fiction...
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Art cache

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BBC reports about a cache of lost paintings seized by the Nazis. Previously unknown artworks by masters are among more than 1,400 pieces f...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

I want one

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Laser cutter , that is. Not very portable, unfortunately.
Monday, November 04, 2013

Welcoming climate

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My turn at the diversity fest. This was a small group session looking for input on how to improve the climate for diversity. There was jus...
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