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November 20, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
Artificial Intelligence on Collective Imagination ... There is nothing in the term "Artificial Intelligence" that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "intelligence" exists and that we have some clue as to what it is. But it might not, and we don't.
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Death is not an option: optimizing academic performance edition. Let's say you're a college student. You have a class meeting today at which a short essay (about 400 words) is due. The essay counts for about 5% of your grade for the course. At that class meeting, your instructor...
The Frontal Cortex
The Reading Brain I've got a review of Stanislas Dehaene's new book, Reading in the Brain, over at the Barnes and Noble Review: Right now, your mind is performing an astonishing feat. Photons are bouncing off these black squiggles and lines -- the...
The Island of Doubt
The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't The hacking of the data is a worthwhile story, insofar as IT security goes, but the content is just plain banal. All we learn is that scientists are humans after all.
A Blog Around The Clock
Today's carnivals The 124th Meeting Of The Skeptics' Circle is up on Beyond the Short Coat Friday Ark #270 is up on Modulator...
Greg Laden's Blog
Electricity Gone Wild A high-voltage arc caused by a 500kV Switch opening up in the Nevada Desert. An enormous Jacob's Ladder...
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The Buzz: The Great Debate The pitched battle between evolutionary theory and Intelligent Design has become one of the signature conflicts of the decade. On Pharyngula, PZ Myers picks up the pieces after his debate with Jerry Bergman on whether ID should be taught in...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Friday Fun: Why we use cookbooks I like to cook. I have a few standard, signature dishes where I more or less freestyle every time I make them -- beef stew, chili, quesadillas, pasta sauce. I also like to try new things. For example, I'll probably...
Greg Laden's Blog
Creationist-Kootied Origin Comes to the Twin Cities Some guy named David (but he would not give his last name) and his friends were handing around Ray Comfort's tricked-out version of Darwin's Origin of Species on the University of Minnesota Campus today. Thanks to my former student Becky for sending me these links:...
Built on Facts
Leaked Climate Change Documents Around ScienceBlogs, people who don't accept global warming as a real phenomena tend to get called denialists. In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit that I'm not a denialist but rather a global warming defeatist. Doesn't matter how...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Friday Sprog Blogging: photosynthesis. Dr. Free-Ride: Any ideas for tomorrow's sprog blog? Younger offspring: I wanted to do how photosynthesis works. Dr. Free-Ride: Did you do any research on that since last week? Younger offspring: I don't do research....
Collective Imagination
And now we turn to the topic of Artificial Intelligence ... There is nothing in the term "Artificial Intelligence" that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "intelligence" exists and that we have some clue as to what it is. But it might not, and we don't.
Terra Sigillata
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center takes legal action against Evolv water Continued misuse of the M.D. Anderson name by bottled water multilevel-marketing companies draws legal action this week in US District Court. I found at least some of the data on the "testing" of their water on in vitro release of pro-inflammatory lipids from cultured cancer cells - guess what might happen if one puts cultured cells into water or 50/50 water and media?
DrugMonkey
Continuous submission of NIH grants for reviewers: Something is odd. Anything that encourages scientists to help with NIH grant review is a GoodThing.
Collective Imagination
Is My Robot Happy To See Me? ScienceDaily (2009-10-19) -- Scientists tested our ability to interpret a robot's "emotion" by reading its expression to see if there were any differences between the ages. They found that older adults showed some unexpected differences in the way they read...
bioephemera
TGIF: Annals of Gullibility If I weren't so darn busy, I'd be tempted to read this book: As you can tell from the photo, I've been spending a lot of time in the library. Sorry for the low post volume - I have quite...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
Mike the Mad Biologist
The Republican Establishment Is Absolutely Nuts "Prepare for war?" So says a Republican county party committee.
Uncertain Principles
November Basketball: SU-Cal, UNC-OSU Kate and I went to the two games of the "semifinals" of the 2K Sports Classic Supporting Coaches vs. Cancer, Your Name Here for a Prince pre-season "tournament" last night (the scare quotes are because the four teams playing last...
The Primate Diaries
Friday Rant: Atheists Need To Be Brighter Now that the Darwin Reclamation Project collage has been posted, I can confess that I have a few problems with the recent atheist action that sought to counter the dunderhead Ray Comfort and his Creationist propaganda ministry. I'm not sure...
Respectful Insolence
"Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon Nooooo! Not one of the seemingly rational ones too!
The Island of Doubt
The ultimate anti-tar sands message I promise to get back to substantive blogging shortly, but in the meantime, if you've got three minutes to tear yourself away from coverage of Sarah Palin's book: Scientifically sound? Not the words I would use, but not too far...
SciencePunk
Friday Flash Fun: Stop Disasters! Unlike most games, this one wants you to prevent havoc, not create it! But it's still fun! Following in the footsteps of The Great Flu, this is a game designed by the noble people responsible for saving lives in real...
Greg Laden's Blog
LOL Texans! You banned all marriage, dudes! All marriage was accidentally banned in Texas when Texas banned "Gay Marriage." What a bunch of morons. Details here....
Mike the Mad Biologist
Misinterpreting the Solution to the Manure Crisis and the Global Warming Problem... ...and how Levitt and Dubner fail to see that the Manure problem was not 'solved', only turned into a new problem that will also require wrenching change.
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As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.
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