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Tag Archives: Technology
Not only is she a Bonneville record holder, but Leslie Porterfield also used an innovative new skin wrap on her bike. While I would suspect the claims of any company, a personal endorsement such as the following holds weight enough … Continue reading
Posted in Keith's Page, motoring, Technology, Travel
Tagged Bonneville Salt Flats, FastSkinz, Leslie Porterfield, MPG, Technology, Worlds Fastest Woman
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The Cult of Nutritionism Suffers a Setback
(photo: gualtiero) In a fine blow to the pseudoscientific cult of nutritionism, an intensive study conducted by the National Institutes of Health applied the same laboratory standards to vitamin supplements as are routinely applied to pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, science
Tagged alternative medicine, cancer, conspiracy theories, counterknowledge, cult, Damian Thompson, disease, drugs, Edgar R. Miller, epidemiology, green tea, health, healthcare, heart disease, Johns Hopkins University, Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, medicine, modernity, National Institutes of Health, nineteenth century, Nutritionism, pharmaceuticals, placebo, pseudoscience, quackery, School of Medicine, science, snake oil sales, Technology, vitamin supplements
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The Penalty of Touch
Your ominious police state technology news item of the day.
The West as Nuclear Proliferator
(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Technology
Tagged Africa, Asia, authoritarianism, chart, China, civic culture, communications, democracy, diagram, DPRK, eastern bloc, English, espionage, former soviet republics, government, individualism, infographic, lingua franca, military intelligence, networks, New York Times, North Korea, nucelar research, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, political dissent, prc, proliferation risk, rogue states, Russia, scientific community, Soviet Union, Technology, technology transfer, trade, translation services, Transportation, USSR, western democracy
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When the Future is Boring
It seems the marriage of David Pollard and Amy Taylor is heading toward divorce, due to Pollard’s virtual affair with a virtual prostitute, uncovered by a virtual private detective hired by Taylor. It occurs to me that the key thing … Continue reading
Armies of the Obsolete
Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner … Continue reading
Posted in Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Tagged 1990s, al Qaeda, cartridge games, CDR, compact discs, Culture, Earth, electronics, energy, engineering, engines, environmental, extraterrestrial civilizations, games, geology, Greeks, human civilization, infrared targeting, laser guided munitions, light guns, media storage, military technology, modernity, oil, petroleum, physics, post-vietnam, resources, Rob Stradling, science, security threats, SEGA, slave labor, Stephen Hawking, Technology, technology transfer, Terrorism, Transportation, West, Yemen
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Wireless Power Transmission Making Progress
Impact Lab“A new long-range energy transmission experiment opens the possibility of sending solar energy from space to earth.”
Posted in Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Tagged Powser Transmission, Technology, wireless
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Steel, Now with Less Iron
Premium iron ore is expensive in the days of the mineral wars, and Japan’s industry needs a lot of it. So, Japan is looking at an inventive new way to minimize steel production’s iron appetite.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged iron, iron ore, japan, mineral wars, ore, steel, Technology
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A Cubic Mile of Oil
Over at Green Tech we get some figures that should be rather sobering for those who wish for alternative energy to be a significant source of energy in the near future: Put another way, we’d need to equip 250,000 roofs … Continue reading
“Tiny Fan Blows a Mighty Wind”
No, it’s not about a farting midget at a basketball game. So I guess in that sense the headline is sort of false advertising.
Hacking with an Invitation
Hilarious story. If you put the password in the page, it’s not exactly hacking for someone to enter your “secure” site. To add to the hilarity, they’ve left the insecure login method in place and merely changed the password (view … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged business, Digg, Federal Supplier's Guide, hacking, Mr. Baby Man, password, scam, security, Technology
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Cellular Vision & Linus Pauling’s Phone Bill
Over at Modern Mechanix I saw some pocket prescience from 1939. I went looking for further information and found instead this site at Oklahoma State. It’s an incredibly complete archive of Linus Pauling’s papers, including a near day by day … Continue reading
What happens to a blog post?
When I finish typing this and hit publish, the blog will send out a ping, and then the enters the strange ecosystem of the internet: Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Lance's Page, Technology
Tagged Blogs, internet, posts, Technology, web
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Hanging Out in the TMC
Yeah, that’s me after a few too many cocktails in the hotel lounge. As Lance related, I’m in Houston in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) visiting my father who recently had an internal defibrillator put on his heart. The surgery … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Lee's Page, Travel
Tagged allergist, Ballardian, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub Hospital, boutique, Cayman, Christian Louboutin, clinics, doctors, European, filipina, Health Care, hospitals, Houston, JG Ballard, John P. McGovern, Manolo Blahnik, MD Anderson Cancer Center, medical, Methodist Hospital, nurses, Porsche, Prada, receptioniss, research, Saudi, Super-Cannes, Technology, Texas, Texas Children's Hospital, Texas Medical Center, wives
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40 Hour Laptops!
Via Instapundit we see it may come true: Imagine running your laptop nonstop from New York to Tokyo — crunch some numbers, work on a memo pop in a few DVDs — and then do a full day of meetings, … Continue reading
Planet of the Apes Meets the Matrix
Scientists have progressed one step closer to my dream of being the laziest person in the world by way of controlling computers and robots with my mind. Neuroscientists at Duke University teamed up with a robot in Kyoto, Japan to … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Technology
Tagged duke university, idoya, monkeys, robotmonkeys, robots, singularity, Technology
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