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That will really confuse the aliens on the dark side.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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At last – technology for the rest of us.

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At Princeton University and Portland-based Reed College, a small liberal-arts institution, students praised the Kindle for its long battery life, paper savings and portability. They then complained they couldn’t scribble notes in the margins, easily highlight passages or fully appreciate color charts and graphics.

“You don’t read textbooks in the same linear way as a novel,” said Roesner, 23, a graduate student in computer science and engineering. “You have to flip back and forth between pages, and the Kindle is too slow for that. Also, the bookmarking function is buggy.”

Sounds like a job for the iPad.

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To lower the fuel consumption of airplanes and ships, it is necessary to reduce their flow resistance, or drag. An innovative paint system makes this possible. This not only lowers costs, it also reduces CO2 emissions.

Not to mention that they look really, really sharp.

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HSAs are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Science Marches On!

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Everything bad is good for you.

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And get more respect.

My son, who is entering college this fall–as I’m preparing to sign big checks–told me that a classmate of his is opting to become a police officer rather than going the four-year college route. This reminded me of an exercise I conducted while in the lower depths of graduate school that compared the lifetime earnings of a college professor and a police officer–the police officer won.

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You, too, can hit the best-seller list.

Remember, the really silly plots are the ones you should use.

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

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If you understood that headline, you’ll want this product.

If you didn’t, you won’t.

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I have two doctors that I see regularly, both are getting iPads and say that their colleagues are doing the same.

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A new report, commissioned by the federal government, finds the field is rife with poorly done studies, misdiagnoses and tests that can give misleading results.

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Who knew there were so may racists in New York?

Oh, wait, sorry … forgot that ‘Hispanic’ isn’t a race….

Enter the New York Civil Liberties Union: The organization has asked the board to rescind the ordinance.

Of course.

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Well, you never know when you’re going to need some rice….

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The so-called Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, is now under development in a shore-based test facility at Lakehurst naval air station in New Jersey. However, according to reports, the test mass-driver installation suffered serious damage earlier this year in a mishap blamed on a “software malfunction”. Apparently the “shuttle” – which moves along the catapult track to accelerate a plane to flying speed – went the wrong way in a test shot and smashed into important equipment.

Oops. On the other hand, had there been a plane attached, it (and its pilot) would have been okay because of the way they attach the launch cradle.

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I was explaining this to my son after we went to watch Iron Man 2, and my girlfriend needed to visit the facilities before we headed over the hill to go home. The human genome evolves…and it evolves on either side of a gender barrier. Just about anything that would come in handy when you go out to kill a wild animal and bring it home, men are going to excel in that particular skill. Anything that involves guarding a bunch of helpless babies from hazards as if you’re a momma bird guarding a nest, women are going to be much better suited for it. Going a couple of hours without taking a leak, obviously that’s our department.

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In only four days, a twin-engine aircraft equipped with an advanced version of lidar (light detection and ranging) flew back and forth over the jungle and collected data surpassing the results of two and a half decades of on-the-ground mapping, the archaeologists said. After three weeks of laboratory processing, the almost 10 hours of laser measurements showed topographic detail over an area of 80 square miles, notably settlement patterns of grand architecture and modest house mounds, roadways and agricultural terraces.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Of course, it didn’t come from a Harvard guy or a multinational conglomerate so the chances of the government (any government) adopting it before I’m ready for Social Security is vanishingly small.

Charles Stross explains certain inconvenient truths.

This is a wonderful compendium of facts about the e-book business.

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But if complexity is your only demon, I’ve got two simple rules of thumb to exorcise him. Here goes:

1. If you don’t have clear and convincing evidence that doing something is better than doing nothing, do nothing.

2. If you know that doing nothing is bad, but don’t have clear and convincing evidence that one action is better than another, do the simplest, standard thing.

Carrie Vaughn, author of the ‘Kitty’ series of werewolf stories and one of my Recommended Writers (see the list on the right), reviews.

Don’t tell me a story.  Make me freaking believe it.

And that says everything that needs to be said.

Steve Sailer will talk about things that most people are afraid to even think about.

All this is pretty similar to what I heard from Penn State geneticist Mark Shriver eight years ago. He came up with about 18% white admixture in African Americans. The technology was more primitive then, but his sample size was about 20 times bigger. So, one-fifth appears to be a good rough estimate.

Needless to say, I love the guy.

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Ruh-roh.

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This is the wave of the future. And you are here to see it.

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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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To think of all the marvelous ways
They’re using plastic nowadays….

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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The metal-and-plastic outfit boasts eight electric motors that amplify the strength of the wearer’s arms and legs, as well as sensors that can detect movements and respond to commands through a voice-recognition system.

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No, not the cereal.

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

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A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical Christians said they had uncovered remnants of Noah’s Ark on its legendary mountain resting place in Turkey.

‘Right. What’s a cubit?’

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A 10-year-old girl has stunned doctors in Australia after she survived being stung by the world’s most venomous creature.

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The new $100 bill is the most sophisticated attempt yet to combat forgery. Since colonial times, the U.S. has engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with criminals and foreign governments eager to pass off brilliant fakes.

You know, it’s almost impossible to ‘counterfeit’ a gold coin….

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Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

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Well, in Britain you can do that.

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“Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell’s nucleus becomes corrupted,” he says. “It seems frankincense has a re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code should be.

“Frankincense separates the ‘brain’ of the cancerous cell – the nucleus – from the ‘body’ – the cytoplasm, and closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA codes.”

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An Informative Map.

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In Diana Paxson’s back yard … oh, wait….