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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Expand Your Mind: Getting a Grasp on Consciousness
Friday, December 18th, 2009An interesting talk by Shulgin, Koch, Churchland, and Flatow at MIT World.
Flatow not only manages to mispronounce Koch’s name when he introduces him, he also mocks his (german) accent by saying “he will be back” after Koch leaves the stage. My sense of humor is impaired, so I don’t know what to make of that – but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Christopher Hitchens debates Jay Richards
Saturday, December 5th, 2009This is the first part of a long debate – go to youtube for the rest, I couldn’t be bothered.
Jay Richards is a bullshitter. It is clear that he willfully misinterprets and manipulates the relevant science and philosophy to fit his ill-conceived & misguided religious agenda.
I just can’t believe what these ID people get away with.
Design vs. Chance
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Sympathy tips for Physicists
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Roger Penrose
Monday, November 16th, 2009Roger Penrose, advocate of the quantum theory of mind, says physics is wrong, from string theory to quantum mechanics.
He’s so wrong.
Rupert Murdoch versus the Google
Monday, November 9th, 2009Rupert Murdoch just doesn’t get it. He will loose lots & lots of money. Which is a good thing. The world will be a better place once he’s out of the game.
Satellite interview with Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Superhuman vision
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009[..] But if you could engineer cones that were somewhat sensitive to the infrared spectrum, we might have extraordinary night vision—without goggles, street lights, or surgery.
From “Superhuman vision” by David Pescovitz at Signtific.
This reminded me of some ideas I had about transgenics.
Gömböc
Friday, June 19th, 2009A Gömböc is a mono-monostatic body, invented by Dr. Gabor Domokos. It looks a bit like an indian star tortoise.

If you like, you can listen to Dr. Gabor Domokos explain all about it.
If you wish to have one of your own, you can buy one here.
The paper that started it all used to be available here. Unfortunately, it is not freely accessible anymore – but you can still buy it.
Audio
Friday, June 19th, 2009A while back, I was looking for some lectures by Leonard Susskind and I found http://librivox.org/ and http://www.learnoutloud.com/. These two sites have lots of interesting audio material.

