News happens faster thatn any one organization can keep up with it, this post is my attempt to take a look at how science news has been reported by ordinary people around the world.
The blogosphere (sweet Jesus that word makes me want to claw my eyes out with a hammer) is a big place, this fact is really driven home if you search technorati for all posts containing the word science. Originally this post was going to be a list of links to notable blog posts about science from the past week, but when Technorati turned up over 25 pages of posts about science for the last 24 hours alone, I decided that I would limit myself to that!
I'll start with this very nice post on monzy.com, which details some of the adventures that Google engineers have on 'science friday'. It seems very similar to the Sunday afternoon science stuff I have on this very blog so gets a thumbs up from me.
Darwiniana has posted text written by note futurist Ray Kurzweil. It starts
and only gets more exciting from there!
One of the staple physics undergrad though experiments is Maxwell's Demon. 150 years after being proposed by Maxwell it has been realized by a team at Edinburgh, reports Wired
A post on the LVC forums (a site for luxury vehicles, I have no idea what this post is doing there) discusses the dangers of politicized science with a compelling argument about eugenics.
Slashgear discuss a popular science article on how recent technological innovations may affect our privacy. Welcome to 1984+23.
Don Dodge discusses the recent disappearance of computer scientist Jim Gray at sea, and a distributed computing attempt to find him by harnessing the power of the internet.
Why can't this ever happen to me? Child of Illusion talks about the bribing of scientists by oil companies. As a note for any nefarious astrophysicists out there, I'll gladly sell out and say whatever you want for, say, £10 and a packet of crisps.
The blogosphere (sweet Jesus that word makes me want to claw my eyes out with a hammer) is a big place, this fact is really driven home if you search technorati for all posts containing the word science. Originally this post was going to be a list of links to notable blog posts about science from the past week, but when Technorati turned up over 25 pages of posts about science for the last 24 hours alone, I decided that I would limit myself to that!
I'll start with this very nice post on monzy.com, which details some of the adventures that Google engineers have on 'science friday'. It seems very similar to the Sunday afternoon science stuff I have on this very blog so gets a thumbs up from me.
Darwiniana has posted text written by note futurist Ray Kurzweil. It starts
Consider that the price-performance of computation has grown at a super-exponential rate for over a century. The doubling time (of computes per dollar) was three years in 1900 and two years in the middle of the 20th century; and price-performance is now doubling each year. This progression has been remarkably smooth and predictable through five paradigms of computing substrate: electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, transistors, and now several decades of Moore’s Law (which is based on shrinking the size of key features on a flat integrated circuit). The sixth paradigm–three-dimensional molecular computing–is already beginning to work and is waiting in the wings. We see similar smooth exponential progressions in every other aspect of information technology, a phenomenon I call the law of accelerating returns.
Where is all this headed?and only gets more exciting from there!
One of the staple physics undergrad though experiments is Maxwell's Demon. 150 years after being proposed by Maxwell it has been realized by a team at Edinburgh, reports Wired
A post on the LVC forums (a site for luxury vehicles, I have no idea what this post is doing there) discusses the dangers of politicized science with a compelling argument about eugenics.
Slashgear discuss a popular science article on how recent technological innovations may affect our privacy. Welcome to 1984+23.
Don Dodge discusses the recent disappearance of computer scientist Jim Gray at sea, and a distributed computing attempt to find him by harnessing the power of the internet.
Why can't this ever happen to me? Child of Illusion talks about the bribing of scientists by oil companies. As a note for any nefarious astrophysicists out there, I'll gladly sell out and say whatever you want for, say, £10 and a packet of crisps.
