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Stallman on biological source code (a.k.a genetic code)
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Natural organisms never had anything like source code. The genetic code of an organism is more comparable to a binary (in fact, quaternary) executable. Imagine a C compiler made by patching the binary of hello.c a billion times in a...
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July 29, 2010
And the winner of International Physics Olympiad is...
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India's Aakanksha Sarda, 18 year old from Bombay....
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July 27, 2010
The Injustice system in USA
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An economist article on the unjust justice system in USA. Here's a case ACLU is defending: Sixteen Years in Prison for Videotaping the Police? A Slashdot comment with some rather painful statistics. Isn't this something that Alexis de Tocqueville saw...
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July 26, 2010
The Genius of Ibn al-Haytham
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Genius penetrates this world well and a humbled genius penetrates even better. Professor Jim Al-Khalili programme on BBC4 "Science and Islam" was an eye-opener for me, especially the details of the life of ibn al-Haytham, a medieval genius. The...
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July 21, 2010
Simulation engine for physical stuff
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There are simulations and then there are simulations. This video is all over the intertubes. A simulation rendered by the Lagoa Multiphysics engine developed by Thiago Costa (works for Ubisoft)....
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July 15, 2010
Charles, Prince of Piffle
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Hitchens in Slate: A hereditary head of state, as Thomas Paine so crisply phrased it, is as absurd a proposition as a hereditary physician or a hereditary astronomer. To this innate absurdity, Prince Charles manages to bring fatuities that are...
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July 14, 2010
Smart ladies are Apple-shaped
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I am not sayin it. Northwestern dudes say so....
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July 12, 2010
What's special about religion
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A court in Russia has convicted two people for offending religion. So, I ask the same question that Richard Dawkins and others have been asking for a while: What exactly is special about religion that it requires unquestioning respect? Why...
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July 11, 2010
Satellite designed by Indian students to be launched on Monday
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STUDSAT - Satellite designed by Indian students to be launched on Monday....
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