Posted in My Thoughts on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Better computer-vision algorithms overlay digital information on the real world.
Altered vision: This laptop is running augmented-reality software developed by Microsoft engineers. It can recognize a person’s location using the built-in camera. In this demonstration, virtual bubbles lead to a virtual pot of gold. Credit: Microsoft
Today, Microsoft researchers will demonstrate software that can, in real time, [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News, Chicago
Lyn Evans says the magnet incident was a real setback for Cern
Europe’s particle physics lab, Cern, is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, or “God particle”, its US rival claims.
The particle, whose existence has been predicted by theoreticians, would help to explain [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Evidence is mounting that the Israeli defence forces used the Gaza assault as a testing ground for new, horrific weapons that have confounded doctors’ attempts to save the wounded.
THERE WERE MANY ways to die during the Israeli offensive on Gaza.
From their hospital beds at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, Atallah Saad, 13, and Yussef Salem, 17, told [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cutting visas for high-skilled immigrants won’t lessen U.S. economic pain and could stifle domestic innovation, new research suggests
By Vivek Wadhwa
As the U.S. recession deepens and job losses mount, finding fault with foreigners is very much in vogue. The tendency reared its head recently as U.S. senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) began [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Essay
Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live
By CARL SAFINA
Published: February 9, 2009
“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching,” Robert Darwin told his son, “and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.” Yet the feckless boy is everywhere. Charles Darwin gets so much credit, we can’t distinguish evolution [...]
