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Hearts Eject Less As We Get Older

5th November 2007

Read it. Even our hearts get tired.

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How to improve meetings

4th November 2007

Read it. Just in case you thought it was all doom-and-gloom here. (Well, yeah, it’s mostly that, but….)

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Join the Fight for an Honest Media

1st November 2007

If that’s not a contradiction in terms.

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Folding@Home recognized by Guinness World Records

1st November 2007

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

This is certainly more useful than that stupid SETI nonsense.

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Vibrated Mice Form More Bone And Less Fat

31st October 2007

Read it. Just in case you’re in the market for bonier mice. And who isn’t?

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Expressing Economic Ideas

29th October 2007

Arnold Kling. Good stuff. Read it.

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Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery

29th October 2007

So buy it already.

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GPS Tracking: Drivers’ New Best Friend?

26th October 2007

Read it. A very interesting notion.

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New England and the Bavarian Illuminati

26th October 2007

Read it. Adam Weishaupt, call your office.

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Toyota’s i-Real: wrap yourself in a killer whale

24th October 2007

Read it. I’m not sure whether this is cool or just silly. Wouldn’t mind having one, though.

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Sleep Deficiency Causes Emotional Overreaction

23rd October 2007

Read it. And take a nap already.

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Defending “Islamofascism”

22nd October 2007

Christopher Hitchens explains, “It’s a valid term. Here’s why.”

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Samsung’s 40-inch 1080p LCD TV panel — just 0.39-inches thin

22nd October 2007

Read it. Very nice. The TV looks good, too.

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Poll finds Thompson appeals to churchgoers

20th October 2007

Read it. Gee, I wonder why.

Go, Fred.

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A science journalist makes the case for low-carb diets

19th October 2007

Read it. Oh, if only Dr Atkins had lived to see this day….

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Researchers develop artificial nerve

19th October 2007

Read it. And the hits just keep on coming.

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UC Irvine researchers tout first nano-scale radio

19th October 2007

Read it. How about a radio that clips to your ear like an earring? It’s coming.

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Silicon nanowire could convert light into electrical energy

18th October 2007

Read it. This would be rather handy.

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Checking Out Tomorrow’s Library

18th October 2007

Read it. Can’t wait for the DRM and other intellectual property folks to get their lawyers into this one.

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Mechanism Design for Grandma

15th October 2007

Read it. How to be a Nobel Laureate in Economics.

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NEC shows off cloth antenna: receives OTA, clears nostrils

14th October 2007

Read it. Clever, however much it sounds like a joke advertisement from an old Monty Python sketch.

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Overwatch

13th October 2007

Safire on language.

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Toyota takes another stab at personal mobility with the i-REAL

12th October 2007

Read it. Needs weapon mounts but otherwise a fine machine.

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Verbal (ir)regularity

12th October 2007

Read it. Out of the mouths of cartoons….

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Nissan’s Around View arrives in the US December

12th October 2007

Read it. This is seriously cool. It will also encourage all those tedious people who insist on backing into parking spaces.

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Raytheon’s Silent Guardian keeps crowds under control

11th October 2007

Read it. Oh, I like this one.

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Blood Vessels Grown From Human Skin Tissues

11th October 2007

Read it. And the hits just keep on coming.

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Low Glycemic Index Diet Delays Macular Degeneration

9th October 2007

Read it. But bear in mind that if you don’t eat potatoes and pasta, you WILL go to hell. Trust me on this.

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Rentokil’s RADAR super-mousetrap texts you when the pests are dead

9th October 2007

Read it. Well, really, don’t you want one of these?

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LG touts first converter box approved for 2008 digital changeover

9th October 2007

Read it. I have no idea what they’re talking about, but it sounds very erudite.

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Blusens intros GPS units with satellite imagery

8th October 2007

Read it. And the hits just keep on coming.

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Nissan takes wraps off conceptual Pivo 2 electric car

7th October 2007

Read it. Aw, it’s so cute. Of course, anyone who has reached puberty will refuse to ride in one, but there it is.

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The Doctr Is In

7th October 2007

Read it. Where can I find one of these?

Couple this with the retail store-space clinics that are opening up….

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Fuel Efficiency Decline Reverses In United States

5th October 2007

Read it. Markets work, whether you want them to or not.

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Extraction Of Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere Seen Possible

4th October 2007

Read it. We have the technology.

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Common sense as a school of thought

3rd October 2007

Read it. Steve was a couple years behind me at Yale, and a very bright and personable guy. His father was Guido Calabresi, a professor at Yale Law, so I suppose it’s the family trade.

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Expect less Mr. Nice Guy from Fred

3rd October 2007

Read it. Go, Fred.

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Scott Adams on the Economic Way of Thinking

2nd October 2007

Read it. Dilbert would recognize it.

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Suddenly Everyone Wants An Online Office Suite

2nd October 2007

Read it. I use Google’s. The Web is good enough for me.

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Purdue’s carbon nanotubes could trump heat sinks

2nd October 2007

Read it. Nanotubes are becoming more and more useful.

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The Five Sorry Rules of Lateness

1st October 2007

Read it.  Here’s a taste of why:

 Incompetent people believe they are busy, but they are just inefficient.

There’s an eternal truth for you.

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New Nuclear Reactors Coming In America

30th September 2007

Read it. This is huge.

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O.T. Isn’t as Simple as Telling Time

30th September 2007

Read it. And, of course, the government is involved, which makes things both more complicated and more stupid than they need to be.

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Microsoft extends sales of Windows XP till June 2008

28th September 2007

Read it. I guess the fact that Vista is a steaming pile of crap is finally getting through to the boys in Redmond. I smell a “New Coke/Coke Classic” moment here.

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Sprint Realizes That People Hate Forced Contracts, Early Termination Fees

28th September 2007

Read it. Progress is being made.

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Air-driven robotic legs hop, skip and jump

28th September 2007

Read it. Starship troopers, here we come.

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The Innovative Space Spinoffs, Both Real and Mythical

27th September 2007

Read it. All my illusions, shattered.

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The “happiness gap” and the rhetoric of statistics

27th September 2007

Read it. Of course, if journalists could understand statistics, they could get a real job.

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Is It Better To Study Economics Or Computer Science?

26th September 2007

Read it. Economics. Nobody wants computer scientists (i.e. mathematicians); they want software engineers.

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The Tyranny of the Market

26th September 2007

Read it. More information that every American ought to know.

This well-written monograph is the best extant non-technical treatment of fixed costs and how they limit product diversity.

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