Saturday, December 11, 2010

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Science Fiction: The Limit Case — Crooked Timber
By John Holbo
We tend to assume science fiction is about portraying technological change – or potential technological differences from how things are now. But, logically, one of the possibilities is that things could be pretty much the same. ...
Crooked Timber - http://crookedtimber.org/
Levi Ben-Shmuel: God, Science and Open-Heart Surgery
By Levi Ben-Shmuel
As marvelous as the technology and skill set of a medical team are, there is an even more fantastic Force within us so vibrant and powerful that a person can withstand open-heart surgery and thrive.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf
If climate science politics were a hockey game…oh, wait | Watts Up ...
By Anthony Watts
If climate science politics were a hockey game…oh, wait. Posted on December 11, 2010 by Anthony Watts. I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. -Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004) ...
Watts Up With That? - http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Wind Tunnel Technology in Sports Science
In the run up to 2012 Olympic Games, British athletes are making use of wind tunnel technology to boost their performance and chances of gold medal success.
Suite101: Olympic/Paralympic... - http://www.suite101.com/olympicparalympicsport
The Neurocritic: Perspectives on Psychological Science: Blogs Don ...
By The Neurocritic
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science is a blog written by Andrew Gelman, a Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia. He was one of the first to blog about the paper in Suspiciously high ...
The Neurocritic - http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/


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How to Install Windows on Google's Chrome OS Notebook
PC Magazine
The fact that the Google CR-48 Notebook runs on an Intel processor implies that it can run Windows or some other full blown operating system. But how would you install Windows in the first place? That's not exactly clear. But we have the answer, ...
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Dual-camera Apple iPad on way - start lining up outside those stores now
New York Daily News
Apple's iPad suppliers are gearing up for a new round of production in early 2011, sources said Friday, with one saying the product will be a revamp of the popular tablet computer including cameras on the front and back. The iPad has taken the world by ...
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Biz Break: Facebook Places? Foursquare? Check out who's checking in
San Jose Mercury News
By Frank Michael Russell In this photo provided by All Things Digital, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley is interviewed Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/All Things Digital, Asa Mathat) ** NO SALES ...
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WikiLeaks Julian Assange: the most dangerous man in the world?
Telegraph.co.uk
By Neil Tweedie, and Jon Swaine 7:00AM GMT 11 Dec 2010 Julian Assange experienced something this week that he has not known since boyhood: a prolonged period without a computer. The editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks has spent the past four nights in ...
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Jawbone Releases Thoughts for IPhone
PC World
By Lex Friedman, Macworld Jawbone, the company behind accessories like the Icon Bluetooth headset and the Jambox speaker, has released its first foray into the App Store: Thoughts. The iPhone app attempts to mix texting with the soothing sounds of your ...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

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News8 new results for science
 
Oracle wants $211 million in interest from SAP
San Jose Mercury News
By Brandon Bailey Turning up the heat in a bitter legal dispute, software-maker Oracle is asking a federal judge to order German rival SAP to pay $211 million in interest on a record $1.3 billion jury award for software pirating. ...
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Activists Say Web Assault for Assange Is Expanding
New York Times
By RAVI SOMAIYA LONDON — The online activist group Anonymous, which has been waging a campaign of cyberattacks in defense of WikiLeaks, opened new offensives on Friday as Internet security experts said that tens of thousands more supporters had ...
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Wolverton: An early look at Google's Chrome operating system
San Jose Mercury News
By Troy Wolverton Pictured are two frame grabs of how the new Google Chrome operating system browser window appears on screen. (Courtesy Google) Consumers have had two choices when it comes to computers: Macs and PCs. Now Google is about to offer a ...
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Geminids to shower meteor 'gems'
msnbc.com
According to the late meteor specialist Neil Bone, at 2 grams per cubic centimeter (0.07 pounds per cubic inch) on average, Geminid meteoroids are several times denser than the cometary dust flakes that supply most meteor showers. ...
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Mozilla patches 13 Firefox security bugs
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Mozilla on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a re-patch for a bug that was thought quashed in March 2010. Eleven of the 13 were rated "critical," the threat level representing bugs that hackers ...
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Apple disabled jailbreak detection API in iOS 4.2
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Less than six months after introducing it, Apple has quietly disabled its jailbreak detection API through the iOS 4.2 software update, according to a new report. Network World reports that the API, which was released in June as part of a ...
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Looking for the Real Mark Zuckerberg
New York Times
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN When my grandmother was old and frail, my job was to run movies between her apartment and the corner video store. It wasn't easy to choose movies for her. She was close to death, and she didn't want a film that might upset her. ...
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Sound off: PlayStation Home
GamePro.com
by Dave Rudden With PlayStation Home turning two this weekend, we wanted to find out the fondest memories from its users. Read on to learn what people love about the service. PlayStation Home turns two this weekend, an occasion we're celebrating with ...
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Crazy Coffee Science: Why You Should Salt Your Coffee and ...
By matt buchanan
In a two-part interview about the massive coffee section in the even massiver 2400-page tome Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, one of the co-authors, Chris Young, reveals why salt takes the bitterness out of coffee better than sugar ...
Gizmodo: announcements, best... - http://gizmodo.com/tag/announcements/bestofgizmodo211038php
Putting Climate Science in Its Place - NYTimes.com
By By ANDREW C. REVKIN
A blog policy aims to sustain discussion of climate science, but in the appropriate place.
Dot Earth - http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/
Your Favorite Science Fiction Yarns, Reinvented as Kids' Books
By Charlie Jane Anders
If only these children's books, based on all-time classic science fiction stories, actually existed — they'd be the perfect way to get your kids into Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who. As it is, they're a hilarious tease.
io9 - http://io9.com/
Digging Digitally » Anthropology not a science?
By Francis Deblauwe
Anthropologists have been thrown into turmoil about the nature and future of their profession after a decision by the American Anthropological Association at its recent annual meeting to strip the word "science" from a statement of its ...
Digging Digitally - http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/
Anthropology: More a Hobby Than a 'Science'
By Hamilton Nolan
Anthropology debate! Brain hearing! Jock myth! Unique fingerprints! Estrogen breast-rogen! Smallest battery! And gay mice marriage! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—if you can call it that!
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Oracle Seeks to Add to $1.3B Fine Against SAP
ABC News
AP On Friday, Oracle asked a judge to add $211.7 million in interest to the $1.3 billion fine that a federal jury levied against SAP last month. The judge still needs to formally impose the fine. There is a possibility she could reduce it. ...
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Apple's iPad tops Time's top 10 gadgets of 2010 list
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Time magazine awarded Apple four slots on its 2010 top 10 gadgets list, naming the iPad the No. 1 gadget of 2010. Apple briefly fell from grace last year when Time magazine awarded the Motorola Droid the status No.1 gadget of the year, ...
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Geminid meteor shower expected to be heavenly show
USA Today
By Wally Pacholka, AstroPics.com via AP By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Flaming rocks will soon begin hurtling toward the Earth with the arrival of the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the biggest of the year. The peak of the week-long shower will ...
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Chrome Web Store, HTML5 and the iPad: symbiosis at its best
Engadget
By Paul Miller posted Dec 10th 2010 6:29PM It's all coming together, folks. It doesn't take much of a gander at the Chrome Web Store to notice a trend: some of the flashiest, most mature "apps" are actually just in-browser versions of iPad apps. ...
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WikiLeaks Disclosures Prompts Defense Department Ban on USB Drives
eWeek
The clampdown by the Department of Defense will have implications for how United States troops abroad will communicate with folks back home. The Pentagon's new restrictions on removable media and file transfers may impact how United States troops ...
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Next-gen iPad rumored to get front-, rear-facing cameras
Ars Technica
By Chris Foresman | Last updated December 10, 2010 1:43 PM Apple may go whole-hog in the imaging department for the next-generation iPad by adding both a front-facing and rear-facing camera. Anonymous sources in the iPad supply chain speaking to ...
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Group finds 5 main flaws with proposed Net Neutrality rules
BetaNews
By Tim Conneally | Published December 10, 2010, 3:54 PM A group of more than 80 advocacy groups including The Media Access Project, Reporters without Borders, Daily Kos, Common Cause, and Nonprofit Technology filed a letter with the Federal ...
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Governments stonewall interwebs porn domain
Register
By Kevin Murphy in Cartagena • Get more from this author The bid to create .xxx – a top-level domain just for web porn – will be tied up in red tape for at least a few more months after national governments pressured ICANN to block its approval. ...
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RIM's BlackBerry rapidly lost Verizon share to Android
Apple Insider
By Daniel Eran Dilger Just over a year ago, Research in Motion's BlackBerry made up more than 90 percent of Verizon's smartphone sales. Its share is now below 20 percent, thanks to the heavily promoted launch of Android smartphones on the carrier. ...
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News: Woz Freaks Out Media with White iPhone 4
The Mac Observer
When Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak showed off a white iPhone during a recent media event, the press thought they were getting a look at the still-not-shipping version of the combination iPod and smartphone. Woz's iPhone turned out to be a modified ...
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EA Lists Mass Effect 3 on Online Store
Gamespy.com
By Mike Sharkey | Dec 10, 2010 The cat, she has been let out of the bag, and she's carrying detailed information about BioWare's highly anticipated third installment in the Mass Effect series. Not to be filed under rumor, the unintentionally released ...
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Mozilla Patches 11 Firefox Security Flaws
InternetNews.com
Open source browser vendor updates Firefox 3.6.13 to address at least 11 security vulnerabilities, including numerous threats to memory and a fix for OpenType fonts. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: The last time Mozilla issued a ...
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