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News for 2009-11-11

XiXiDu — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

As the velocity of communication approaches realtime, language compresses. http://ff.im/-bi1qP #
Building new life forms at the iGEM Jamboree http://ff.im/-bi1FR #
Boycott Science.org http://ff.im/-bi1Kr #
Are nuclear weapons safe in Pakistan? http://ff.im/-bi263 #
The Fort Carson Murder Spree -… [pic] http://ff.im/-bi3r1 #
The New Yorker and NPR on the C.I.A.s Covert Drone Program http://ff.im/-bi3wR #
The dog cloner : Nature News http://ff.im/-bi3Db #
Great Observatories Explore Galactic Center http://ff.im/-bi3QE #
Was This Fish the Inspiration for Alien? http://ff.im/-bi3VJ #
Future of music : Farewell to the casual fan http://ff.im/-bi4hC #
Google Latitude Now Tells You Where You’ve Been http://ff.im/-bi4rb #
Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++ http://ff.im/-bi91d #
Video: Is the Universe Fine Tuned for Life? http://ff.im/-bi95y #
The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone – The Big Picture http://ff.im/-bi986 #
The Science of Success – A provocative new theory of genetics http://ff.im/-bia3z #
The Singularity and Simulation http://ff.im/-biaci #
The Art of Jim Campbell: How many pixels do you need? http://ff.im/-biaon #
Emulating the brain on a chips built to emulate the physical operation of brain cells http://ff.im/-bib2E #
Measurement and Uncertainty in Video Analysis of Motion http://ff.im/-bicJw #
Golf balls: 'Humanity's signature litter' http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/11/04/littering.golf.balls/index.html... [pic] http://ff.im/-bicRS #
MIT MAV jockeys: We don't need no stinkin' GPS | Military Tech http://ff.im/-bie7t #
NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory http://ff.im/-bie9q #
When I make an assumption… http://ff.im/-biejG #
Measuring dino fitness – more evidence that two-legged dinosaurs were warm-blooded http://ff.im/-bieoe #
Researchers discover dopamine cell killer protein in Parkinson's sufferers http://ff.im/-bieAh #
Keeping Pacemakers Safe from Hackers http://ff.im/-bifbY #
Software for solving life-threatening medical puzzles http://ff.im/-bifdg #
Video: Mr. Deity and Death http://ff.im/-biffu #
ORGASM Inc. – Strange Science of Female Pleasure http://ff.im/-bih1B #
What if the magazine article of the future, the album of the future, and the novel of the future are all the… http://ff.im/-bihak #
An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 41 Nobel Prize Winners http://ff.im/-bihnZ #
Rule #1 for Carrying Nuclear Secrets: Don’t Leave Laptop in Hotel Room http://ff.im/-bihOM #
Twice the storage for a quarter of the price http://ff.im/-biij5 #
Atheism Done Right http://ff.im/-biims #
The Problem Of Machine Intelligence http://ff.im/-bij6O #
The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future http://ff.im/-bijl4 #
Great (SF): The Nokia N900 – the journey starts here http://ff.im/-bijqq #
The Evolution of Depression http://ff.im/-bijYG #
What’s your earliest memory? http://ff.im/-bijZn #
Johann Hari: Accept the facts – and end this futile 'war on drugs' http://ff.im/-bikQt #
Mimicking the Building Prowess of Nature http://ff.im/-bildg #
Oxytocin: This one's for the Ladies http://ff.im/-bils7 #
Oral sex in the animal kingdom http://ff.im/-bilNS #
Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake http://ff.im/-bim46 #
6 Insane Laws We'll Need in the Future http://ff.im/-biqPs #
Quantum Computing: Sorry, no speedup in solving linear systems http://ff.im/-bivkY #
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. http://ff.im/-bivnk #
Flipping A Photonic Shock Wave http://ff.im/-bivom #
Less Wrong: Rationality advice from Terry Tao http://ff.im/-bivFz #
Object permanence – Do chimps understand what another chimp believes? http://ff.im/-bivRk #
PZ Myers Gets It Wrong – Evolution is not natural selection! http://ff.im/-biwqC #
Continuing puzzlement over "Why" questions http://ff.im/-biwAC #
Encouraging talented people to spend many years in wasteful status contests http://ff.im/-bixe0 #
Fwd: Free Markets, Free Muslims? -… [pic] http://ff.im/-bixJ6 #
Bra doubles as golf putting mat http://ff.im/-bixNh #
Watching The Body's Metabolism Using Ultra Low Field MRI http://ff.im/-biytf #
Nokia reveals 2015 vision while struggling with 2009 realities (video) http://ff.im/-biyS5 #
More Next-Level-Musicmaking on YouTube: The ‘Crowdsourced’ Single http://ff.im/-biztI #
Philosophizing about Programming; or "Why I'm learning to love functional programming" http://ff.im/-biAyY #
Chimp captures a frog and forces it to perform oral sex? http://ff.im/-biPlc #
Got 8 Google Wave Invites http://ff.im/-biWkb #
Is this the end of the line for the impartial documentary? The Thin Line Between Passion and Propaganda. http://ff.im/-biY5T #
Feathers That Sing: What A Little Sexual Selection Can Do http://ff.im/-biYme #
Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words http://ff.im/-biYEI #
The Dirt On Dust : Where Does Dust Come From? http://ff.im/-biYJu #
Someone once told me that there is nowhere we are more honest than the search box http://ff.im/-biZcD #
Stunning Cassini Image to Knock Your Socks Off http://ff.im/-biZtD #
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle http://ff.im/-biZKW #
Edit This Page : Is it the end of Wikipedia? – http://www.bostonreview.net/BR34.6/morozov.php (via http://ff.im/bijQO) http://ff.im/-biZSO #
Microsoft, IBM And Yahoo Are Vying To Take Part In India’s Unique ID Project http://ff.im/-bjijB #
Artificial General Intelligence 2009 Conference Videos Up on Vimeo http://ff.im/-bjiJB #

News for 2009-11-10

XiXiDu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

1973 Lighthill debate, the “AI winter” http://ff.im/-beGen #
84Sr—just right for forming a Bose-Einstein condensate http://ff.im/-beGFg #
Kazakhstan's radioactive legacy – The Big Picture http://ff.im/-beGNq #
How the Net is altering people's experience of popular music http://ff.im/-beGZ6 #
Science, drugs, policy and Hume http://ff.im/-beHaL #
A mathematician discusses string theory and many other matters [PDF]… http://ff.im/-beHjs #
Fearing the future neurosociety: What if our emotions were read by machines?… http://ff.im/-beHu1 #
Smell and Memory http://ff.im/-beHCM #
Camera Network Spies Anomalous Meteorite http://ff.im/-beHMX #
The first commercial HTM application http://ff.im/-beInS #
Vanished Persian army said found in desert http://ff.im/-beITZ #
Electromagnetic Railgun Air Defence Test Fired Successfully http://ff.im/-beJ1N #
Planetary Society to Launch Three Separate Solar Sails | Universe Today http://ff.im/-beJqt #
Scientist Smackdown: Can Nanoparticles Damage Human DNA? http://ff.im/-beJCM #
Tissue Engineering a Functioning Penis http://ff.im/-beJNE #
Ants could inspire military strategies http://ff.im/-beKk9 #
Response to Gary Stix on the Secrets of the Brain http://ff.im/-beKuo #
That Baby Doesn’t Accept Evolution! http://ff.im/-beM02 #
Apostasy is a crime punishable by death in Islamic countries http://ff.im/-beMcF #
Fifty states of Street View http://ff.im/-beMtf #
Overcoming Bias : Democracy Failings http://ff.im/-beMMr #
Advances on Many Fronts to Spinal Cord Injury Repair http://ff.im/-beMU0 #
Fwd: Scientists want debate on animals with human genes… http://ff.im/-beN6R #
What happens to email after you die http://ff.im/-beObY #
Stem Cells Restore Cognitive Abilities Impaired By Brain Tumor Treatment http://ff.im/-beOLW #
ECCEROBOT – Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot http://ff.im/-beOSz #
Overcoming Bias : Are Women Picky? http://ff.im/-beOYU #
Inventing language | The foundations for today’s programming languages http://ff.im/-beRTh #
Words, Gestures Are Translated By Same Brain Regions http://ff.im/-beTjT #
Neural correlates of musical consonance and dissonance http://ff.im/-beUHy #
How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives http://ff.im/-beUW1 #
When “we are the media,” how does it change us or society? http://ff.im/-beV48 #
Video: Necker Cube http://ff.im/-bfawQ #
Universities are not there to spoon-feed http://ff.im/-bfaIC #
Sci-fi illustrations by Shusei Nagaoka ::: Pink Tentacle http://ff.im/-bfaMf #
China’s ‘Netizens’ Hold Authorities To A New Measure Of Public Accountability http://ff.im/-bfaZT #
Live high-res video feeds by cell phones now possible… http://ff.im/-bfbbV #
Making Carbon Nanotubes into Long Fibers http://ff.im/-bfbq5 #
Theory about long and short-term memory questioned http://ff.im/-bfbtk #
2012 Prophecies Sparking Real Fears, Suicide Warnings http://ff.im/-bfc0s #
Climate Engineering Reaches Mainstream Debate http://ff.im/-bfdqq #
Functional brain correlates of heterosexual paedophilia. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18358744 (via… http://ff.im/-bfdHQ #
Consent will be required for cookies in Europe http://ff.im/-bfq3S #
Conscious Entities » The Ego Tunnel (pt 1) http://ff.im/-bfsW8 #
Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot http://ff.im/-bfv3z #
How his polymer-producing microbes could transform the plastics industry -… http://ff.im/-bfvab #
A Day in the Life of a Literature Professor, or Why I Do What I Do http://ff.im/-bfvve #
Mind Reading (Neural Decoding) Goes Mainstream http://ff.im/-bfvKC #
The Big Idea: Scott Westerfeld http://ff.im/-bfwIC #
Receptor Controls Long Term Memory Formation http://ff.im/-bfwPN #
People who think they are more restrained are more likely to succumb to temptation http://ff.im/-bfxKb #
Video: Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Video Game http://ff.im/-bfz1y #
University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science http://ff.im/-bfzoy #
Color Code Your Life With Tom’s Planner http://ff.im/-bfBgq #
NASA’s Plan to Irradiate Monkeys Raises Cruelty Concerns http://ff.im/-bfEay #
4096 bot planes handled solely on a single GPU http://ff.im/-bfHJh #
Synaptic pruning – Wikipedia http://ff.im/-bfRrt #
Worldwide CPU shipments up 23 percent… largely thanks to netbook CPUs http://ff.im/-bfSoz #
Project Icarus Symposium: Part Two http://ff.im/-bfSs7 #
Intel introduces Reader device to assist with severe dyslexia http://ff.im/-bfSMy #
I prefer to reason rather than believe. That's why I'm an atheist! http://ff.im/-bfTbG #
UN urged to dump defamation of religion treaty http://ff.im/-bgpXS #
Esquire's Augmented Reality issue goes on sale, and we have video to prove it http://ff.im/-bgqcX #
Who Needs Sunglasses? New Contact Lenses Respond to Light http://ff.im/-bgr86 #

News for 2009-11-09

XiXiDu — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

The Upside to a Religious Upbringing http://ff.im/-bbl3B #
A wonderful debate – Hitchens and Fry debating a pair of Catholic apologists. http://ff.im/-bblt9 #
Ubiquitous information technology fields http://ff.im/-bblE8 #
Watch what you depict! http://ff.im/-bbm2a #
Performing horizontal eye movement exercises can boost your creativity http://ff.im/-bbmvc #
God and Chance http://ff.im/-bbmER #
Video fingerprinting offers search solution http://ff.im/-bbnCE #
Overcoming Bias : Beware Inward Apologetics http://ff.im/-bbr82 #
Massimo Pigliucci of Psychology Today Insults David Chalmers’ Haircut for Giving Talk on the Singularity http://ff.im/-bbrpz #
Google making Waves across all its Apps? http://ff.im/-bbrZy #
Journey into the Micro-World – Cell Size and Scale http://ff.im/-bbsg6 #
Video: Drop of water http://ff.im/-bbsyD #
Music Retail: The Rise of Digital http://ff.im/-bbt0L #
Cave Exploration Photography http://ff.im/-bbttc #
Australian political flap over YouTube parody http://ff.im/-bbuQP #
What computer science can teach economics http://ff.im/-bbvgT #
How your brain sees virtual you http://ff.im/-bbAkm #
Video: What if Matrix was shot in the silent films' era http://ff.im/-bbAu6 #
Moore's Law: Beating The Noise Problem http://ff.im/-bbAJX #
Genes that influence our adaptability to changing rewards http://ff.im/-bbDcJ #
Graphic: Evolution: life on Earth is one big extended family – http://bit.ly/TcNZk (via… [pic] http://ff.im/-bbDgU #
The informavore in its cage http://ff.im/-bbF17 #
Video: Era of the Cloud: Nicholas Carr (Google Atmosphere Session 2) http://ff.im/-bbFcM #
A collection of kisses – The Big Picture http://ff.im/-bbFBV #
The Goods May Be Virtual, but the Profit Is Real – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-bbPUG #
How Language Works – the cognitive science of linguistics http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/index.html (via… http://ff.im/-bbSU1 #
Busride through a Forest Fire in Queensland, Australia http://ff.im/-bc89C #
“Needs” don’t make populations evolve anything http://ff.im/-bc8kF #
Japan eyes solar station in space as new energy source http://ff.im/-bc8rj #
Medical scientists turn any camera phone into holographing microscope http://ff.im/-bc8Hw #
Why Look for Life on Mars? http://ff.im/-bc954 #
Axis of evil: Discovery Institute + Harun Yahya http://ff.im/-bc9yR #
Von Neumann probe – http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/vonNeumannprobe.html (via http://ff.im/bc13J) [pic] http://ff.im/-bca6J #
Remembering Carl Sagan http://ff.im/-bcdmO #
Hmm might StumbleUpon be better than FF? What the difference? http://ff.im/-bclTf #
Heaps of evolution evidence http://ff.im/-bcnjq #
Leaf beetle protects itself with a mobile home made of faeces http://ff.im/-bcC5P #
No One Knows Anything, and other dilemmas of the e-book era http://ff.im/-bcCrd #
Mozilla’s Firefox browser celebrates its fifth birthday http://ff.im/-bcCXN #
NASA and ESA Sign Mars Exploration Joint Initiative http://ff.im/-bcD1j #
Amazon's Top Ten Science Books for 2009 http://ff.im/-bcDrk #
Evolution in Two Minutes http://ff.im/-bcEfe #
Why did HAL sing 'Daisy'? http://ff.im/-bcFNY #
Investing in a mobile future with AdMob http://ff.im/-bcG7z #
Is Software Set to Replace Sports Journalists? http://ff.im/-bcRii #

News for 2009-11-08

XiXiDu — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Fingerprints are the Mark of the Beast, Says Kindergarten Teacher http://ff.im/-b8Raq #
The Last Thing The Mosquitofish Saw http://ff.im/-b8Rcg #
Rivalry for Google Wave: PBWorks http://ff.im/-b8Rrm #
My mailbox would depress you. : Pharyngula http://ff.im/-b8RBy #
An Atheist’s Version of Immortality http://ff.im/-b8RM0 #
Great (xkcd) – Terminator, More Accurate! http://ff.im/-b8SjP #
Weekend Diversion: The only reason to twitter http://ff.im/-b8SLe #
".. we have a population explosion of ideas, but not enough brains to cover them…" – Daniel Dennett’s…… http://ff.im/-b8SOd #
Terence McKenna + the Singularity + Psychedelic Drugs = Stunning Craziness http://ff.im/-b8TnA #
I might have one Google Wave invite. http://ff.im/-b8UgX #
Democracy & Creationism in Turkey http://ff.im/-b8YIc #
So good your head explodes every time: Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others http://ff.im/-b8YYS #
Message to 12,000 A.D. http://ff.im/-b9011 #
Message to 12,000 A.D. http://ff.im/-b907K #
Do Not Attempt To Light With Match | Beyond The Beyond http://ff.im/-b94l4 #
The Open Road London (1927): a silent film in colour http://ff.im/-b94ts #
There is even a bookmarklet for Facebook. Now if it was only more public I'd probably use it… http://ff.im/-b95SY #
"For millennia we have looked to the stars for meaning, for guidance, but the constellations are only…"… http://ff.im/-b9aKc #
Determinism is not blame-free http://ff.im/-b9pV8 #
Protect the seemingly useless http://ff.im/-b9q8q #
Nietzsche, Truth and Meaning http://j.mp/36NRuV (via @slominski: ) http://ff.im/-b9qwl #
Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence http://ff.im/-b9qYV #
Pretty Pols Win – More evidence suggesting Politics Isn’t About Policy http://ff.im/-b9rj5 #
Easing the transition to a new solar economy http://ff.im/-b9rBs #
On Denialism and the role of science in America http://ff.im/-b9EXk #
Dangerously Delicious Food – It’s so good it must be bad! http://ff.im/-b9OhH #
Video: Exploding Capacitors in High Speed http://ff.im/-b9Ol4 #
Winner in Contest Involving Space Elevator – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-b9OmN #
The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place – Virtual Choir http://ff.im/-b9OCv #
Unitary mindfulness in collective action http://ff.im/-b9Qc2 #
@KateSherrod @blazingbetta You might like this as well http://bit.ly/o9Rcp in reply to KateSherrod #
@KateSherrod @blazingbetta And this (must-see): http://bit.ly/suplv #
@KateSherrod @blazingbetta Strangers gather on Web to make collective art http://bit.ly/2F4brQ #

News for 2009-11-07

XiXiDu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Students Build Living Microbial Machines http://ff.im/-b79hc #
Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos http://ff.im/-b79i8 #
Poll: The Computers of the Future http://ff.im/-b79kc #
The illusion of time: Perceiving the effect before the cause http://ff.im/-b79kM #
Sick and Twisted Belief: A Letter from Hell http://ff.im/-b79st #
Some problems with training the Afghan police http://ff.im/-b79K9 #
Acceleration of Neutral Atoms with Lasers With Acceleration Up to 100 trillion Gs http://ff.im/-b79Nl #
“In God We Trust” Lawsuit Dismissed http://ff.im/-b79SS #
Squirrel Memory Test http://ff.im/-b79Wn #
Another LHC Shutdown http://ff.im/-b7aaW #
Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider http://ff.im/-b7ac3 #
Translating works of literature into games of chess against each other http://ff.im/-b7fr6 #
Philosophy Monkey: Picking Up an Existentialist Babe http://ff.im/-b7kmC #
Why Neanderthals Really Went Extinct http://ff.im/-b7ktt #
One Strange Mars Rock | Universe Today http://ff.im/-b7kvN #
What does not kill the group, makes it stronger! http://ff.im/-b7kCQ #
Now I understand everything : Pharyngula http://ff.im/-b7kEa #
A sheep amongst wolves http://ff.im/-b7kI3 #

News for 2009-11-06

XiXiDu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Reading Weber in Tehran – http://bit.ly/28Z3u8 (via http://ff.im/b1PXT) [pic] http://ff.im/-b4lna #
Neuropsychology http://ff.im/-b4mOc #
What is heterophenomenology? A key concept for philosophy of brains, that’s what. http://ff.im/-b4n0z #
Creationists Declare War Over The Brain http://ff.im/-b4ndB #
The Age of the Informavore – The effects of technology on our collective intelligence http://ff.im/-b4qgA #
Machine Super Intelligence – Shane Legg on AI [UKH+] (1/12) http://ff.im/-b4qBl #
How the Internet enables intimacy http://ff.im/-b4qG6 #
'The Evolution of Confusion' by Dan Dennett, AAI 2009 http://ff.im/-b4qXW #
Pitfalls of Thinking: Confirmation Bias (1/2) http://ff.im/-b4rtC #
Time-lapse photgraphy of deep-sea animals http://ff.im/-b4sql #
Environmental(ist) Protections – Climate change belief given the same legal status as religion http://ff.im/-b4tmw #
Is Conscious Dreaming Fact Or Fiction? http://ff.im/-b4tQi #
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Secret Message http://ff.im/-b4uMB #
Null and Vetoed: "Chance Coincidence"? http://ff.im/-b4uUo #
Discriminating butterflies show how one species could split into two http://ff.im/-b4vxB #
CAD Robots For the Masses http://ff.im/-b4vTD #
Rare Disease Treated Using Gene Therapy http://ff.im/-b4vVl #
Laser-Etched Fruit Is an Answer in Search of a Problem http://ff.im/-b4wvq #
The Secret You – How do we know who we are? http://ff.im/-b4wYc #
3-D Virtual Moon Browser from Kaguya Data | Universe Today http://ff.im/-b4zZH #
Synthetic Neurobiology: Optically Engineering the Brain to Augment Its Function http://ff.im/-b4AI2 #
Online collaboration with built-in clarity http://ff.im/-b4ARj #
Galactic Suite Orbital Hotel Taking Reservations for 2012 http://ff.im/-b4AZe #
Another Beyond CMOS Candidate – Nano-electron-fluidic logic (NFL) http://ff.im/-b4Bk1 #
Number as a cognitive technology | The language of the Amazonian Piraha tribe http://ff.im/-b4D1N #
Perplexities of Consciousness, submitted draft http://ff.im/-b4CPf #
What is parallax and what is it good for? http://ff.im/-b4DjG #
Become a Transhumanist – Transhumanist Music – Abolished http://ff.im/-b4DvJ #
Tracking suppression of online free speech http://ff.im/-b4Eda #
A Battery-Free Implantable Neural Sensor http://ff.im/-b4ExZ #
Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber http://ff.im/-b4EH0 #
Ultra-High Definition TV Coming Soon? http://ff.im/-b4Fd8 #
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Xenu http://ff.im/-b4FhE #
The Time is Now: As a Species and as Individuals we Need Whole Brain Emulation http://ff.im/-b4Fos #
Venezuela bans violent video games http://ff.im/-b4Fxj #
Voicemail Responses to Nashville Atheist Billboard http://ff.im/-b4Gfb #
Blog writing for professionalism in medical education http://ff.im/-b4Hrn #
Our left and right hemispheres can selectively track expected value http://ff.im/-b5kTH #
Lo and Behold: the Internet http://ff.im/-b5l9k #
On current progress in synthetic biology http://ff.im/-b5lgb #
Humanity+ Summit and Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar http://ff.im/-b5lSR #
Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve http://ff.im/-b5m4C #
A Map of Human-Dwelling Microbes http://ff.im/-b5m5x #
The Story of Maths – The Language of the Universe -… http://ff.im/-b5mKl #
A Small Sip from the Fountain of Youth http://ff.im/-b5nz6 #
Technology Gap – Inside Higher Ed http://ff.im/-b5q3K #
Makers of Universes | George Bernard Shaw pays tribute to professor Albert Einstein http://ff.im/-b5rkd #
Practical Ethics: Switzerland gets tough on suicide clinics http://ff.im/-b5sfZ #
SF has debated some current real issues decades in advance http://ff.im/-b5syb #
Psychologist says http://ff.im/-b5zBi #
Not Even Wrong – Best of Wikipedia http://ff.im/-b5zGn #
Ginkgo biloba a "living fossil" http://ff.im/-b5zQQ #
Study: Internet use won't cause social isolation http://ff.im/-b5zXs #
IQ and stock market participation http://ff.im/-b5Aka #
What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-b5Asb #
Sony and Atracsys develop 3D interface for ORs, sci-fi franchises (video) http://ff.im/-b5AKw #
Absent-minded Robots Remember What Matters http://ff.im/-b5BVh #
Forbes finds 79 Billionaires in China http://ff.im/-b5C2X #
Music: deadmau5 dr frankenstein http://ff.im/-b5Z3n #
Language learning may start in womb http://ff.im/-b5ZeQ #
Music: Deadmau5 – Ghosts N Stuff (Nero Remix) http://ff.im/-b5Zuk #
Stunning Images: Martian landscapes – The Big Picture http://ff.im/-b5ZW9 #
More evidence nanoparticles damage DNA http://ff.im/-b63Eb #

News for 2009-11-05

XiXiDu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

GE Reveals Phone-Sized Ultrasound Device http://ff.im/-b1dqS #
A Crack Opens in the Ethiopian Landscape, Preparing the Way for a New Sea http://ff.im/-b1dtC #
Neutron Star at Core of Cas A Has Carbon Atmosphere http://ff.im/-b1dM6 #
Mid-continent earthquakes are often aftershocks of centuries-old tremors http://ff.im/-b1dO0 #
Don’t Pack Your Bags Yet—New Planet-Finder Hobbled by Electronic Glitch http://ff.im/-b1dRU #
Multi-Planet System is Chaotic, Dusty | Universe Today http://ff.im/-b1ed6 #
Are You a Cognitive Miser? http://ff.im/-b1eYS #
LRO's Closer Look at the Apollo 12 Landing Site | Universe Today http://ff.im/-b1fFW #
Orangutan facts http://ff.im/-b1fXj #
Toward a meaningful definition of posthuman sentience http://ff.im/-b1gwb #
Greg Egan about his upcoming book, brain mapping and AI http://ff.im/-b1gCQ #
Protecting Your Virtual Privacy: A Closer Look At Digital And Internet Security http://ff.im/-b1lAc #
Tim Tyler’s “Ending the Ice Age” http://ff.im/-b1lMa #
Lingering cognitive effects of a bad night sleep http://ff.im/-b1lR2 #
I only read it for the articles http://ff.im/-b1maH #
Learning To Talk Changes How Speech Is Heard http://ff.im/-b1mkr #
Pirate Party Gets Second Seat in European Parliament http://ff.im/-b1mpY #
Picture Show: Inside a Colombian Prison http://ff.im/-b1mBe #
Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity http://ff.im/-b1nj6 #
‘Can you give a drone a conscience?’ – Times Online http://ff.im/-b1yFW #
Early Life Hedged Its Bets to Survive http://ff.im/-b1yGz #
Google Apps Tricks http://ff.im/-b1yJs #
Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard! http://ff.im/-b1z6R #
Genetic enhancement of memory. http://ff.im/-b1zdH #
How to increase altruism in toddlers http://ff.im/-b1zh5 #
Genome 10K: A New Ark http://ff.im/-b1A8N #
Woe, Superman? Human enhancement closer to science fact – Oxford Today http://ff.im/-b1AGt #
Applause For The SmartHand: Human-machine Interface Is Essential Link In Groundbreaking Prosthetic Hand http://ff.im/-b1B1K #
Video: 'Why Evolution Is True' by Jerry Coyne (via @Wildcat2030) http://ff.im/-b1Bfm #
UC Researchers Create All-Electric Spintronics http://ff.im/-b1BOd #
We can generate a novel body image internally, without external feedback http://ff.im/-b1CuR #
To remember things not only with our brains but also with our machines -… http://ff.im/-b1DER #
Being confused about the conceptual foundations of physics http://ff.im/-b1EeH #
The Robots Are Coming! Oh, They’re Here. – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-b1Eux #
Let her threat of a takedown lead to greater dissemination of her words http://ff.im/-b1ESm #
Access to the Internet is a human right of every E.U. citizen (via http://ff.im/b1Bfi) http://ff.im/-b1Fj7 #
36 Containers from Iran: Israel Stops German Ship Carrying Weapons for Hezbollah http://ff.im/-b1NbG #
Inspired by Maple Seeds, a Robotic Whirligig Takes To The Skies http://ff.im/-b1Oz8 #
Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal http://ff.im/-b1ONg #
Laser-Powered Robot Climbs to Victory in the Space-Elevator Contest http://ff.im/-b2dWx #
Hubble Unveils Stunning Star Birth in M83 | Universe Today http://ff.im/-b2emc #
Do cellphones outnumber light bulbs in Uganda? http://ff.im/-b2exY #
Adept Quattro Becomes World’s Fastest Robot (Video) http://ff.im/-b2eP5 #
Complete Genomics and ISB Team Up for Huge Whole Genome Study http://ff.im/-b2eSN #
Podcast: An Embarrassment of Genomes http://ff.im/-b2q8b #

News for 2009-11-04

XiXiDu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Why do we have an IMG element? http://ff.im/-aXNX3 #
Giving the Internet the functionality to convey emotion (via @jamreilly) http://ff.im/-aXOry #
Harvard Grows Heart Tissue, Watches it Beat http://ff.im/-aXOGV #
Enter The Yottabyte – One Billion Petabytes! http://ff.im/-aXOSW #
Video: 'Darwin and the Evolution of Why' by Daniel Dennett http://ff.im/-aXOXa #
The Unethical Humanist Society of Chicago http://ff.im/-aXR14 #
A Genetically Engineered Rainbow of Bacteria http://ff.im/-aXRzO #
Social networking meets ambient intelligence http://ff.im/-aXXt4 #
Drunken flies could pave way for alcoholism cure http://ff.im/-aXXwn #
Arel’s neuroscience inspired AGI http://ff.im/-aXXCP #
Lovely illusion « Must-see! http://ff.im/-aXXTO #
Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine http://ff.im/-aXYnK #
Animated ink-blot images keep unwanted bots at bay http://ff.im/-aXYBh #
Hints of More Extra-Galactic Planets http://ff.im/-aXZ5R #
Anime film characters: Do we perceive the intended race, or our own? http://ff.im/-aXZhW #
“Prehistoric titanic-snake jungles laughed at global warming” http://ff.im/-aY1gE #
Video: Eliezer Yudkowsky — "Cognitive Biases and Giant Risks" http://vimeo.com/7426357 (via http://ff.im/aXRLr) http://ff.im/-aY4On #
The test of time? 1929 Poll: "Novelists who may be read in 2029." http://ff.im/-aY4Xo #
CCTV cameras don't reassure, they frighten http://ff.im/-aY5bX #
Cell phones as tools for global development… [pic] http://ff.im/-aY5yb #
The modern dating game. http://ff.im/-aY5Sj #
The Gay Animal Kingdom Should Now Be Required Reading… [pic] http://ff.im/-aY60b #
Bollywood YouTube Dance Contest: the winners http://ff.im/-aY6mZ #
Asperger's syndrome to become Autism spectrum disorder? http://ff.im/-aY6IE #
Military Taser Has 200-Foot Range—and Safety Concerns http://ff.im/-aY6Qx #
Customers who bought Palin's book also bought… http://ff.im/-aYJWx #
Geoengineering with Iron Fertilization http://ff.im/-aYK6k #
Google Friend Connect, now more personalized http://ff.im/-aYKv9 #
New CMB Measurements Support Standard Model http://ff.im/-aYKye #
Blue Sun Bristling http://ff.im/-aYKSo #

News for 2009-11-03

XiXiDu — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Singularity Summit 2009 Videos Now Available http://ff.im/-aUFks #
Days of the Dead – The Big Picture http://ff.im/-aUFrW #
Germany's new conservative cabinet | And together, they fight crime! http://ff.im/-aUFYM #
Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun http://ff.im/-aUGl4 #
When Intelligence Strikes http://ff.im/-aUGBE #
Purdue Professor: Gays wasting our money on AIDS research http://ff.im/-aUGXw #
Oppenheimer takes inventive approach to examining decision-making http://ff.im/-aUHiu #
EmDrive – Wikipedia http://ff.im/-aUHKR #
Software with a Better Ear for Music http://ff.im/-aUIkb #
Photo: Global Network Visualization (literally) via csessums http://tumblr.com/xt83tnwju http://ff.im/-aUIpY #
Inequality, "silver spoon" effect found in ancient societies http://ff.im/-aUJb8 #
Fabulous! Enceladus Raw Flyby Images | Universe Today http://ff.im/-aUJjh #
Adam and Eve Are Just Friends http://ff.im/-aUJxN #
A view of global creationism http://ff.im/-aUKfP #
What the BLEEP? http://ff.im/-aUKsR #
Aubrey de Gray, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Peter Thiel on Changing the World http://ff.im/-aUKAH #
Back to (brain) basics http://ff.im/-aUKOB #
Anxiety can lead to an exaggerated or inaccurate perception of risk http://ff.im/-aULf8 #
NASA to Start Irradiating Monkeys http://ff.im/-aUOiB #
What’s your place in the brave new future? – Times Online http://ff.im/-aUOqV #
URL-shortening: A classic example of short-term need trumping long-term resilience http://ff.im/-aUOCU #
Evolution as alien god http://ff.im/-aUONE #
Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics http://ff.im/-aV1xZ #
Lesson of the Ancient Nazcas: Deforestation Can Kill a Civilization http://ff.im/-aV1HI #
The best way to measure brain signals… http://ff.im/-aV1Ud #
Breakthrough In Industrial-scale Nanotube Processing http://ff.im/-aV1Z2 #
Violence: The stigma that surrounds mental disorders http://ff.im/-aV2oj #
AI Spacesuits Turn Astronauts Into Cyborg Biologists http://ff.im/-aV2Cr #
Speed Limit To The Pace Of Evolution, Biologists Say http://ff.im/-aV2Iy #
Fwd: "Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning…"… http://ff.im/-aV3ak #
Ask Richard: Should an Atheist Try to Change His Church from the Inside, Or Get Out? http://ff.im/-aV3A0 #
Do "Skeleton" Filaments Give Structure to the Universe? | Universe Today http://ff.im/-aVk5M #
First ever association study using whole genome sequences http://ff.im/-aVk9P #
Sex, lies, and martyrs http://ff.im/-aVkpb #
Swine flu hysteria claims another victim http://bit.ly/3lU44f http://ff.im/-aVkJy #
The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English http://ff.im/-aVl2s #
Video: Aerial View of Ares I-X Flight Test http://ff.im/-aVlm5 #
Faulty logic: Appeal to Authority http://ff.im/-aVmoR #
More in SEED Magazine on GE crops http://ff.im/-aVOtW #
Plastid Engineering http://ff.im/-aVOYT #
European Space Agency launches flood-predicting, earth monitoring satellite http://ff.im/-aVPht #
China gov’t rejects WoW again http://ff.im/-aVPvw #
Neuroethics, Transhumanism, Transgenic Humans and Plato http://ff.im/-aVQ6D #
Pondering Panspermia http://ff.im/-aVQq2 #
Artificial Beings: Moral Conscience, Awarness and Consciencousness http://ff.im/-aVQHD #
Cutting back on your long list of passwords http://ff.im/-aW0aR #
Shattered Horizon PC review http://ff.im/-aW9MQ #
Rare 'shell shock' footage online http://ff.im/-aW9Rt #
Is There a Flaw in General Relativity? http://ff.im/-aWa7s #

News for 2009-11-02

XiXiDu — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

"Everything of beauty in the world has its ultimate origins in the human mind. Even a rainbow isn't beautiful in… http://ff.im/-aRrI1 #
"Whoso wishes to grasp God with his intellect becomes an atheist." — Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf http://ff.im/-aRs9k #
"A formula is worth a thousand pictures." — Edsger Dijkstra http://ff.im/-aRsoa #
Morality: no gods required http://ff.im/-aRtIB #
An Argument in Defense of the Serial Comma http://ff.im/-aRtXK #
Nanotechnology research: A better picture of work in China http://ff.im/-aRuoY #
Sleep Deprivation Cut Mental Function http://ff.im/-aRuwH #
Mass produced artificial skin to replace animal testing http://ff.im/-aRuyE #
Great: Homeopathy in Comic Strip Form http://ff.im/-aRuXC #
Facial emotional expressions are universal and culturally specific http://ff.im/-aRv9Q #
FOX News: Dog buys 5,000 Microsoft points http://ff.im/-aRvPH #
Giving America a Vision Implant—Crayfish, Neurochemicals and the Future of Your Civilization http://ff.im/-aRwuG #
Molecular Manufacturing and the Origin of Life http://ff.im/-aRx0H #
The Future of Video Game Input: Muscle Sensors http://ff.im/-aRDRn #
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be…"… http://ff.im/-aRGcs #
Why Learn to Punctuate? – Guide to Punctuation http://ff.im/-aRHZd #
A drug that protects prefrontal cortex from stress. http://ff.im/-aRKpX #
Clever Fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart http://ff.im/-aSmI8 #
Good Dog, Smart Dog – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-aSmZ0 #
Scientists Decode DNA Of Domestic Pig http://ff.im/-aSnmL #
Europe’s Plan to Draw Solar Power From the Sahara Moves Ahead http://ff.im/-aSo6U #
Improved Understanding of Why Stem Cells Stop Dividing http://ff.im/-aSNoN #