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Nature’s Most Amazing Eyes Just Got A Bit Weirder(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by davi 12y ago|0 comments
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A Doctor’s Quest to Save People by Injecting Them With Scorpion Venom(wired.com)
2 points by davi 12y ago|0 comments
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by davi 12y ago
Given the hosts and the venue, the best topic to bring up could be software patent reform. This is something pg has written about in the past [0] -- I wouldn't be surprised to learn this issue is the driving reason for hosting the dinn
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by davi 13y ago
Fascinating idea: insane society-scale bureaucracies make puzzle solvers out of everyone. Sokoloff was Russian, born and raised in a city on the Volga River. He had an explanation for why so many of his countrymen wound up in high-frequenc
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by davi 13y ago
“I don’t know what they think I do,” Minsky said. “I make up theories of how the mind works and when I’m lucky enough, I have some students who make careers out of that.” As a guy with a lab, the idea of thinking of how the mind works f
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The fall and rise of gene therapy(wired.com)
2 points by davi 13y ago|0 comments
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In rural Tennessee, a new way to help hungry children: A bus turned bread truck(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by davi 13y ago|0 comments
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Titanium Fills Vital Role for Boeing and Russia(nytimes.com)
16 points by davi 13y ago|6 comments
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My Body Stopped Speaking to Me: First Person Account of a Near-Death Experience(blog.longreads.com)
2 points by davi 13y ago|0 comments
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by davi 13y ago
the availability of energy to the individual almost exactly correlates with economic growth A corollary might be that the more energy available per capita, the greater the environmental footprint of per capita. E.g. the McMansions of the
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Can We Fake Leaves That Stab Bed Bugs in the Feet?(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
12 points by davi 13y ago|0 comments
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Bringing a Virtual Brain to Life(nytimes.com)
2 points by davi 14y ago|0 comments
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Rapid elimination of blood phobia(stanmed.stanford.edu)
2 points by davi 14y ago|0 comments
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An Energy Coup for Japan: ‘Flammable Ice’(nytimes.com)
5 points by davi 14y ago|0 comments
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Questcor Finds Profits, at $28,000 a Vial(nytimes.com)
9 points by davi 14y ago|1 comments
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A Cardiologist Makes the Case For Taxing Soda(bittman.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 14y ago|0 comments
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Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain(forbes.com)
1 points by davi 14y ago|0 comments
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by davi 14y ago
Am I anything more than a junkie seeking the ultimate fix? I don’t know. I may never know. I’m committed though. Good line. Feel the same way in science, sometimes.
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Color-Blind Artist Neil Harbisson Uses Webcam-Like Eyeborg to ‘Hear’ Color(theworld.org)
1 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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by davi 15y ago
This reminds me a lot of Ars Digita's bootcamp ( http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/boot-camp , which I attended, back in the day. It's up there amongst the more interesting experiences of my life). Except that instead of being a recruitm
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by davi 15y ago
Ashburn, VA/Heidelberg, Germany Scientific Software Developer http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/Jobs/ Ilastik ( http://ilastik.org ) is a collaborative open-source project with the aim of providing a scalable image analysis platform for th
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No Excuses: Robots Put You In Two Places At Once(npr.org)
30 points by davi 15y ago|3 comments
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Ocean bacteria glow to turn themselves into bait(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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What Do a Bunch of Old Jews Know About Living Forever?(nymag.com)
2 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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by davi 15y ago
good and non-obvious (at the time) advice, at the end: "Whatever name you choose, be careful. Names stick."
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by davi 15y ago
With a color lookup table: http://davibock.net/111025_quasicrystals/l3LL3_colorized.gif
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Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars(nytimes.com)
3 points by davi 15y ago|0 comments
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Deciphering the Brain's Autofocus Mechanism(news.sciencemag.org)
22 points by davi 15y ago|1 comments
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by davi 15y ago
Full interview audio available on linked page. Topics: - NeXT WebObjects and dynamic web programming - Visit to Xerox PARC - Difference of Apple from other companies - NeXT lessons learned - First computer Jobs used - Meeting Woz and starti
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Steve Jobs' full 31 minute 1996 Fresh Air interview(npr.org)
5 points by davi 15y ago|1 comments

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