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Month: February 2013
In China, a research project aims to find the roots of intelligence in our DNA; searching for the supersmart
it would appear that the biggest sequencing lab in the world has no qualms about research that would not pass ethics approval in the west. of course, the results of that research will not be ignored by the west, how convenient.
bring your parents to work day is far far cuter than bring your kids to work day. there is no annoyance, just awww.
Manufacturing Will Not Save Us. It will end unemployment for robots though.
It’s not manufacturing that drives economic growth and creates new jobs, but innovation, creativity and talent. The big job generators for the past several decades and for the foreseeable future remain high-skill, high-pay knowledge jobs and low-pay, low-skill service jobs. We need to leverage and deepen the former, investing in the knowledge, technology and skill that drive innovation and economic growth.
wow.
He was going 96 km an hour when the car’s speed dial jammed. Lecerf tried to brake. Instead of slowing, though, the car sped up — with each tap on the brake leading to more acceleration. Eventually, the car reached a speed of 200 km / h — and then remained stuck there. For an hour. Lecerf, frantic, called the police from his car — and they sent an escort that The Guardian describes as “a platoon of police cars” to help him navigate a highway full of fellow cars and get them to swerve out of the way of the speeding car.
Said on house of cards by a newspaper editor, seconds before he was fired.
We should stop calling it Smartphone. Most people don’t use theirs in cognition-enhancing ways. All you see are people texting each other.
now available in 3 flavors: pbr, natty light, and soy
if you haven’t seen this yet (unlikely, i know), it is free on hulu. it has held up remarkably well in the over 30 years since it was made. it would be amazing if it were updated in the same style. we’d have to cast a new carl sagan.
2013-07-21: the cosmos remake is coming out next year. i hope tyson has as much of a facility with words as sagan did.
2014-01-13: the first episode is on march 9. the original with carl sagan was seen by 750M people, let’s hope this one goes to a couple billion.
2014-03-11: Let’s hope this is the beginning of fighting back against the forces of ignorance. You are watching this, right?
the USPS should get into that action too, then we’d have 2 dinosaurs staying relevant.
Unions are shrinking and their members are aging. Their traditional bastions in the construction trades and manufacturing have withered, and they’ve had deep trouble breaking into the service sector — especially at big retailers like Wal-Mart that have had great success fending off the UFCW in particular. In the big scheme of things, they have very little lose by trying to cultivate a new, more labor friendly industry, albeit a highly speculative and technically illegal one.
Full disclosure: this article exists so I can tell you all about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Kirk Douglas. Just look at it! It’s exquisite. The game itself is as grand as the cover. It is San Andreas, with the load screens replaced by EXTREME closeups of Kirk Douglas—and occasionally his son Michael Douglas, because hey, close enough, right? In the game, the main character appears to be a rough approximation of Kirk Douglas. Oh, and all the missions have been removed, so there’s nothing to do.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 