Posted in My Thoughts on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brain boost: A noninvasive way to electrically stimulate the brain, known as transcranial direct current stimulation, has shown success in enhancing learning. The relatively low-tech approach delivers a gentle current to the brain via a large sponge, shown here fixed to a volunteer’s head. Credit: Brain Stimulation Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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Posted in My Thoughts on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Chris Anderson 06.23.08
Illustration: Marian Bantjes
The Petabyte Age: Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. As our collection of facts and figures grows, so will the opportunity to find answers to fundamental questions. Because in [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By NOAH FELDMAN
Published: June 22, 2008
No country is wholly free of anti-immigrant prejudice, whether it is the United States, where illegal immigration was a hot-button issue in the Republican primaries, or post-apartheid South Africa, where economic migrants were recently burned to death. But in many Western European countries today, something new and insidious seems to [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LINTHICUM, Md. — Defense contractor Northrop Grumman won a $6.7 million contract to develop brain-wave binoculars.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, awarded the contract to develop intelligent binoculars that would help soldiers detect threats from miles away. The defense contractor says electrodes placed on the scalp will record the user’s electrical [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A quarter-century ago, Maulavi Haqqani was a favorite of American and Pakistani intelligence agencies and of wealthy Arab benefactors because of his effectiveness in organizing mujahedeen fighters from Afghanistan, Arab nations and other Muslim regions to attack the Soviet forces that had occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Today he has turned his expertise against American and [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a triple system of super-Earths around the star HD 40307. Looking at their entire sample studied with HARPS, the astronomers count a [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All Politics, No Prose
Banned in the U.S.A. (Almost)
By SAREE MAKDISI
I didn’t think America was a place where bookstores barred people for their viewpoints, until it happened to me, right here in Washington, D.C., the city of my birth.
I was scheduled to speak at Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse last month about my [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cell phones may be nearly ubiquitous in today’s world, but the number of people who have adopted proper cell phone etiquette (or gadget etiquette in general) often seems to be far smaller. Microsoft has filed for a patent (patent application 2008/125,102) on technology it feels could address such situations via the use of what the [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
June 10, 2008 (Computerworld) BOSTON — For any company moving to embrace Enterprise 2.0, some resistance to the tools that first gained traction within the consumer space is often inevitable.
But when some in the CIA began pitching Intellipedia, a Wikipedia-like project for its analysts and spies, they were met with some fierce critics.
“We were called [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Arguments that $4-a-gallon gas (or even higher) is here to stay are dead wrong. Housing’s boom-and-bust cycle tells you why.
By Shawn Tully, editor at large
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NEW YORK (Fortune) — High-flying tech stocks crashed. The roaring housing market crumbled. And oil, rest assured, will follow the same path down.
Not everyone agrees. In an echo of our [...]
