By Priya Ganapati 12.26.08
The economy may be tanking, but innovation is alive and well.
When it came to products, incremental improvements were the name of the game this year. Phones got faster (iPhone 3G anyone?), notebooks turned into netbooks and pocket cameras went from recording standard-definition video to HD.
But the world’s corporate and academic R&D [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008
Posted in My Thoughts on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FT.com / Comment & analysis / Editorial – Bush’s sole is bared
Posted in My Thoughts on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Published: December 15 2008 19:37 | Last updated: December 15 2008 19:37
When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously banged his shoe on the desk at the United Nations almost 50 years ago, Harold Macmillan, the equally famously phlegmatic British prime minister, said: “I’d like that translated, if I may.”
George W. Bush, who ducked a volley of [...]
As Usual, NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion
Posted in My Thoughts on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anecdotes trump polls on withdrawalBy Dahr Jamail
The New York Times failed spectacularly in its coverage of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, helping lead the country into war and only much later (5/26/04) publishing a half-hearted mea culpa. As the near-apology acknowledged, the paper’s failure resulted in large part from its lack of skepticism regarding [...]
Dark Energy Stunts Galaxies’ Growth – NYTimes.com
Posted in My Thoughts on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NASA/CXC/SAO/A.Vikhlinin et al
A composite image of the galaxy cluster Abell 85, located about 740 million light years from Earth. Observations of it helped astronomers trace how dark energy has stifled the growth of galaxies over the last five billion years.
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: December 16, 2008
The same mystery force that is speeding up the expansion of [...]
Cognitive computing: Building a machine that can learn from experience
Posted in My Thoughts on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientists are studying complex wiring of the brain to build the computer of the future, one that combines the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition and its low power consumption and compact size. Understanding the process behind these seemingly effortless feats of the human brain and creating a computational theory based on [...]
Mind – Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real – NYTimes.com
Posted in My Thoughts on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the outside, psychotherapy can look like an exercise in self-absorption. In fact, though, therapists often work to pull people out of themselves: to see their behavior from the perspective of a loved one, for example, or to observe their own thinking habits from a neutral distance.
Gerard Dubois
Science Times
This week in Science Times, the [...]
FOXNews.com – Israeli Company Provides Islamic Text on the Go – Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
Posted in My Thoughts on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TEL AVIV, Israel — For Muslims who just can’t fit the five-times-a-day Salah prayer routine into their busy schedules, an Israeli mobile phone provider has a new solution: Mobile Koran.
Pelephone has begun offering a Koran text service that enables users to tap into verses of choice from the Muslim Holy Book at will. For the [...]
The Religion of Peace Strikes Again
Posted in My Thoughts on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Alan Caruba Thursday, November 27, 2008
The attacks in Mumbai, India are the latest in the 1,400 year history of Islam and yet people continue to express surprise that the alleged religion of peace could harbor so many cold-blooded killers of innocent people.
Since 9/11, Muslims have carried out more than 11,000 attacks all in the [...]
No place for terrorists’ bodies in ‘sacred India’: Muslim group
Posted in My Thoughts on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No place for terrorists’ bodies in ‘sacred India’: Muslim group
Monday, 01 December , 2008, 17:13
Mumbai: The terrorists behind the Mumbai strike should not get a “final resting place anywhere in sacred Mother India”, because Islam does not permit the killing of innocent people, a prominent Muslim organisation said on Monday.
Muslim Council president Ibrahim Tai said [...]
PREVIEW: Before He Goes
Posted in My Thoughts on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Medal of Freedom for Torturers?
Before He GoesWhat President Bush could accomplish in his final days in office.by William Kristol 12/08/2008, Volume 014, Issue 12
Amid the cold gusts of winter, Republicans will soon be ushered out of power after controlling Congress, the White House, or both for 14 years. Here’s a further chilling thought: Since [...]
