gregladen | October 12, 2009He's too big.
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I did not let Amanda see this story. I just turned the TV off and said "Oh, I think the fuse blew, honey."
gregladen | October 12, 2009October 20th
7:00 to 9:00 PM
Bryant Lake Bowl
Jonathan Foley, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, will talk about another inconvenient truth: our complex global food and agricultural system.
With your help Foley will take-up the question, "How will we feed and fuel more than nine billion people without destroying our environment in the process?"
Doors for this event open at 6pm. Tickets can be purchased in advance on the Bryant-Lake Bowl's website (see link below).
gregladen | October 12, 2009No one was shot in the following video. So don't worry about carrying around guns. It's perfectly safe.
gregladen | October 12, 2009Cleaning Up the Orbital Neighborhood
Space debris of the man-made variety has been around ever since the first rocket launches in the late 1950s, but it was not until the end of the Cold War that the major space-faring nations began to see the growing number of leftover objects still in orbit from previous space missions as a concern.
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gregladen | October 12, 2009Automation may .. provide the mechanism needed to balance the needs between privacy and policy. Video cameras are everywhere - this genie is out of its bottle. But for many computer vision applications, raw imagery can be analyzed on the fly and need never be directly viewed by human observers.
Peter Tu's latest post. Please check it out.
gregladen | October 12, 2009Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo.
Get your own blob here.
Hat Tip: Desiree
gregladen | October 12, 2009 17th century Arabic anatomy drawing, from the Advances of Islamic Sciences web site. In some Islamic sects, drawing living things is not allowed. As a very practical matter, this excludes students from taking part in certain activities in science classrooms.
During the Bell Museum Slapdown panel last week, Myers brought up differences between countries in public attitudes towards education. Mooney and Nisbet brought up the difficulty of making fundamental changes via “Popular Science” approaches, which I take to include public, popular culture as well as standard education (which is,…
gregladen | October 12, 2009What might have been a plausible idea in the 17th or 18th century is the starting point for a just published paper in PNAS.
Before you go read about it, I just want to say this: Having a system of publication in which some crap gets published is the cost of having a system of publication in which important stuff that does not happen to tickle the fancy of the publiconormative old guard GOB networkians does not get rejected.
I'm some will insist that we can have our cake (only good stuff gets published) and eat it too (and not good stuff gets not published) but that simply isn't true. And…
gregladen | October 12, 2009Hmmm... Do I go along with Rush Limberger and Faux News? Or do I go along with ... Rachel?
Most people don't get what the Nobel Peace Prize is. I tried to tell you. Some of you didn't get it. Maybe if Rachel tells you you'll get it.
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gregladen | October 12, 2009This makes Elinor Ostrom of Indian University the first woman to win this prize.
Ostrom won "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" and Williamson, of Berkeley, won "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm."
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gregladen | October 12, 2009Effect Measure has an interesting take-down of a post on The Global Language Monitor (GLM), which brings up an interesting point or two.
The GLM is a very strange site which has, as Revere points out, declared itself to be an important go-to place to find out about language trends across the world. I have not decided what I think about this site except when I browse around it it I feel my guard going up, and up and up. In a recent post, the GLM lists cases of inappropriate political correctness. The GLM says "Once again, we are seeing that the attempt to remove all bias from language is…
gregladen | October 10, 2009A very early example of painting inside a built structure is being reported from Syria.
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Geometric polychromic painting on the interior of a built wall in a structure occupied by Hunter-Gatherers, about 11,000 years ago, in Syria. [source]
It looks like modern art, but this painting could hardly be older.
Archaeologists discovered the painted pattern of black, white, and red among the ruins of an 11,000-year-old house in northern Syria--making it the oldest wall painting ever discovered.
Researchers uncovered the prehistoric artwork while excavating the dwelling near the Euphrates…
gregladen | October 10, 2009A good friend of mine is. I know something about this particular issue, and my opinion as a doctor* is that she will be fine. Which I told her. But I know that means very little.
Please read this.
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*Well, doctor of philosophy, but really, that's better anyway.
gregladen | October 9, 2009I just love my Linux "calendar" command. It's an old Unix trick. *nix (Linux, Unix) systems have these special files on them where dated information is stored, for the user, the system, or just because it's there. If you have a Linux computer, you have several such files already installed. If you go to a command prompt and type "calendar" (and hit enter) you get, typically, today and tomorrow's entries by default, which include a bunch of historical entries. To wit:
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Oct 06 First GPSS manual published, 1961
Oct 06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and…