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Archive for October, 2007
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Science Photography Awards Announced
Posted on October 6, 2007 | No CommentsThe 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge awards were announced last week in Science. That little beauty above is Chondrus crispus, a red algae more commonly known as Irish moss, that was snapped by Andrea Ottesen of the University... -
Sigmund Freud Head Lollipops. Yes, Really.
Posted on October 5, 2007 | No CommentsThe Internet is over. You can all go home now: Sigmund Freud’s head yields subtle contours and watermelon flavors when you suck on it. Of course it does. Post tagged ‘s’ for stupid. References: * Watermelon Flavored Sigmund Freud Head... -
![And even this would have been unthinkable three or four years before that: Not exactly Web 2.0. References: * DEC – Glimpse of the Future, 1994 [mgrdcm / YouTube] Previously: * Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Red Bull And…...](http://www.iconindexsymbol.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/20100529futureweb_640-115x115.jpg "1994 Vision Of The Web [Video]")
1994 Vision Of The Web [Video]
Posted on October 5, 2007 | No CommentsAnd even this would have been unthinkable three or four years before that: Not exactly Web 2.0. References: * DEC – Glimpse of the Future, 1994 [mgrdcm / YouTube] Previously: * Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Red Bull And…... -
Greek Version of Scientific Instrumentalism Was Particularly Instrumentalist
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsThere are at least two ways that science is circumstantially practiced. One is as a heavily mathematical search to understand the basic structure of the universe and what’s in it – what David Deutsche refers to as “revealing and explaining... -
Social Science Partisan Attacks Critic For Lack Of Social Scientific Rigor
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsWe actually agree with a large swath of IRB bad arguments, which is what this little spat is about. But still: The idea that the “typical journalistic interview or survey” involves great questions of war and peace and commerce and... -
Calvin And Hobbes Mural Shows Dedication, Potentially Misplaced Academic Priorities [Video]
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsBehold exhibit A in our next “you might be the least productive student I’ve ever met” meeting with the Adviser: Of course the Adviser’s answer is going to be “yeah, but at least they produced something.” Outflanked again. References: *... -
Neural Nets See Things The Way We Do, Vulnerable To Basic Optical Illusion
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsWe’ve been talking a little bit about the degree to which AI will have to be embodied if it’s ever going to achieve something that resembles consciousness. The theoretical question can probably be phrased as “to what degree does consciousness... -
It Would Be Really Nice If Science Was What Chris Mooney Says It Is (Plus: Climate Scientists Learn The Hard Way That Making Scientific Method Into Collective Identity Is A Bad Idea)
Posted on October 2, 2007 | No CommentsWe used to call this the naive, self-congratulatory bench-scientist version of science. But we’re becoming inclined to think of it as the Chris Mooney version science: It has fallen to those of us who oppose the direction the country has... -
20 Years Of Technological Progress
Posted on October 1, 2007 | No CommentsOn the left, what you needed to store 1GB of data in 1988. On the right, a tiny 1GB SD drive that’s already at least three generations old: So there you have it: over the course of 20 years, 1GB...
