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May 14, 2008
Deep Sea News
Rest In Peace Inventor of the Wetsuit Hugh Bradner died this week at the age of 92. Bradner was a prominent physicist and professor emeritus at the Scripps. He worked on the Manhattan Project and later designed instrumentation for the fusion bomb. He was one of the...
Dynamics of Cats
iPod Classic Remakes what classic would you remake as an iPod ad...
May 13, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Fedora 9 seems very fine. There are many versions of Linux. At the deepest level, there are a few fundamentally different Linuxes, and each of these may appear in one or more, sometimes many, different "distributions." So, most Linux distributions are based on either Debian, RedHat/Fedora, Gentoo, and a couple/few...
Effect Measure
"Doctor, I think I have a code." "It's just some bug ." Getting debugged in Second Life.
Greg Laden's Blog
Doodle 4 Google Apparently, Google has been running a contest among K - 12 students in the US to come up with a replacement logo. And now they have 40 finalists and you can vote for the one you like. These are my favorites: Go HERE to vote....
Laelaps
Woohoo! As some of you may recall, about two months ago my apartment was robbed, my digital slr camera being one of the items that was stolen. Since then it has not been found by the police and I'm still struggling...
Greg Laden's Blog
Ubuntu Means ... Open Source...
May 12, 2008
Dynamics of Cats
toys NASA Ames is getting some new big iron...
Deep Sea News
The Submersible Synopses: NR-1 NR-1 is the navy's smallest nuclear-powered and only nuclear-powered research submarine. Launched in 1969, th 145' NR-1 (known affectionately as Nerwin) was designed for deep submergence work on the seabed ranging from recovery, repair, implantation, and observation. Given its...
A Blog Around The Clock
Open Access to Scholarly Publications (video) Open Access to Scholarly Publications (Updated May 10, 2008) from Sean Kass on Vimeo. by Sean Kass (Via)....
A Blog Around The Clock
Removing the Bricks from the Classroom Walls: Interview with David Warlick David Warlick is a local blogger and educator. We first met at the Podcastercon a couple of years ago, then at several blogger meetups, and finally last January at the second Science Blogging Conference where David moderated a session on...
The Daily Transcript
The Age of Scarcity? As the world population rises and the standard of living in the developing world increases, the capability to cloth, feed and provide energy through non-renewable resources will inevitably diminish.
Gene Expression
Powerset ...is live. Don't know what I'm talking about? Natural language search; people have been talking about this as the Next Big Thing for a while.... (though I will say, if people have been talking about something, it isn't likely to...
Greg Laden's Blog
Greg Laden's Blog
May 11, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language You should check out xkcd every now and then for a laugh....
Respectful Insolence
Comcast: Cap bandwith? Charge by usage? What a novel concept, as long as it doesn't turn into gouge by usage.
Greg Laden's Blog
May 10, 2008
The Quantum Pontiff
Video Games for Science Science is full of hard problems. One hard problem is protein folding. Indeed vast amounts of computer power have been thrown at this problem. So one wouldn't think that the computer we've got sitting on top of our body would...
Greg Laden's Blog
May 9, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
Behold The Newest Math Coprocessor Hat Tip Reed...
Framing Science
The Evidence For and Against a Limbaugh Vote? Influence at the margins...
Greg Laden's Blog
May 8, 2008
The Intersection
Buy Carl Zimmer's Book. Now. Look, folks. It's this simple. Carl Zimmer is one of our very best science writers. If not the absolute best bar none. So if you like reading about science, go buy his newest, Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science...
Science To Life
TechPedia Atlanta I recently started writing for a new website called TechPedia Atlanta which will launch in Summer 2008. TechPedia Atlanta is a wiki-style site that will let anyone create or edit encyclopedic entries about the Atlanta technology scene. I like...
“That is awesome. I've wondered if you could do something like this ever since the day I found out Tetris was NP-complete...” Coin on Video Games for Science
