We can award change with the word "time," but that doesn't mean that there's an invisible matrix in which changes occur.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/is-death-the-end-new-expe_b_774814.html
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Arnold Schwarzenegger Speaks Out Over Marijuana Law
Arnold Schwarzenegger today claimed no one cares if people smoke a joint.
Adwords Is Dying and Google Knows It (and they are doing something about it)
In an iPad, iPhone, Android world the future of many companies lies in geo/local. Google is no exception.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Game Theory Explains Why Some Content Goes Viral
The popularity growth of things like websites or gadgets is often described as being similar to an epidemic: a network with a lot of connections between people increases exposure and then adoption, as do links stretching between dissimilar groups. When the trend in question spreads to a node with a lot of connections (like a celebrity), its popularity explodes. While this is fitting for some cases, in others it's an oversimplification—a person's exposure to a trend doesn't always guarantee they will adopt it and pass it on.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
John Boehner's Tan is Costing America $200 million a day!
You know that tan that John Boehner has? It's costing America $200 million a day! Yes, I knew that such a distinctive orange hue doesn't come cheap. But never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would be that high -- or that it was being billed directly to the taxpayers!
I know this, because I heard it from this guy. And he said it in ALL CAPS to emphasize how truthy it was. Because if it is in all caps, large fonts, or kreativly spelt, it must be especially truthy!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
GOP Climate Deniers Vie to Run House Energy Committee
The House Energy Committee is seeing an intense leadership fight, as four different Republicans are vying to take over the influential post from Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.), who shepherded progressive climate legislation through the House in 2009, before it foundered in the U.S. Senate. The four candidates -- Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), John Shimkus (R-Ill.), Joe Barton (R-Texas), and Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) -- all want to reopen the floodgates for a deregulated fossil fuel industry. But precisely how reactionary the committee will become -- whether investigations will be launched against climate scientists and all clean-energy efforts killed -- could depend on which fossil-fueled Republican wins the intraparty fight.
The frontrunner Upton is the only candidate who doesn't explicitly question the science of man-made global warming, though he is opposed to any policy action. It remains to be seen if the new GOP caucus -- dominated by climate deniers -- will accept Upton's marginally realist stance, or if denial of science will be a litmus test.
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-11-05-gop-climate-deniers-vie-to-run-house-energy-committee
Thursday, November 4, 2010
It's Not the End of the World -- 7 Things Progressives Need to Keep in Mind About the 'Wave'
The reality is that Congress is going to be even more dysfunctional, and thanks to the incoming Tea Party candidates, Fox News and the rest of the right-wing noise machine, we’re going to be subjected to endless investigations into pseudo-scandals involving everyone down to the White House gardener’s second cousin. Maybe we’ll even be treated to an impeachment hearing or two.
Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain
In the new book Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, Columbia neuroscience PhD student Carl Schoonover curates and comments on a selection of images of neuroscience data generated in laboratories all over the world -- many of which have never been seen outside of the research community.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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