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| Naughty Sooty [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 12:29 pm |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| 42 baby guinea pigs from his two nights of passion. link Read the comments on this post... |
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| Not politics, not war, but sports [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 8:47 am |
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| The Hindu on the Asian cup win of Iraqi team. "In 90 minutes, 11 men on a soccer pitch thousands of miles away have made millions of Iraqis happy while 250 MPs, our government, the mullahs, imams and warlords can't provide us with a single smile. I hope this is a turning point for our country." Read the comments on this post... |
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| A mental fart in the general direction of religion [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:01 pm |
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| Humans evolved over millions of years. It wasn't inevitabe, it wasn't predictable, it wasn't random either. It just was. It has taken incomprehensible amount of time to evolve the complexity needed in our neural clumps to hold reasoned representations of the world. Considering this biological history, it is safe to say that it will take |
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| I am very cross with Evolution [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 5:36 am |
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| What you have always suspected to be true is probably true. Intercourse and Intelligence at Gene Expression. ...intelligent people have lower libidos and less masculine physiques. What hormone is responsible for both sex drive and masculine builds? That's right: testosterone. And two new papers suggest that testosterone may depress IQ. One team |
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| Economist on OLPC [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:38 am |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| "..trying to produce such an extraordinary product as a laptop that is kid-proof and capable of working in jungles, deserts or the bush, miles from the nearest grid connection, and all for the cheapest possible price, has concentrated minds remarkably. The XO offers a lesson for laptop-makers everywhere" -link Earlier posts on OLPC. Read the |
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| Transformers: Gigantic Optimus Prime Birthday Cake Forcefully Removes Socks From Feet |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Birthday Cake, Cake, Cakes, Jalopnik, Optimus, Optimus Prime, Transformers |
| Morgan Valentine, better known as best wife ever, ordered a custom-made Optimus Prime cake for her husband's 30th birthday. The cake was made by Nashville's The French Connection, and has dirt, rocks, grass, plants and an Optimus Prime the size of a toddler. I bet the guy even got sex afterwards. [Flickr via Boing Boing] |
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| Our World today [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 8:04 am |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| War, genocide Darfur Congo Iraq Climate Change, flood China India, Bangladesh Britain What shall we tell our children? Read the comments on this post... |
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| Dreaming of Conscious Artificial Intelligence? [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 12:12 pm |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| A while back I read an essay on Artificial Intelligence at TR by David Gelernter wherein, besides other things, he discusses where AI research stands at present (the short answer, nowhere). Like all discussions on AI, it inevitably led to the question of Consciousness. As always, I promptly got confused about it. What is it? Is it an |
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| Please give me the banana. Not half a banana, dammit, the whole banana. [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 7:22 am |
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| A charade involding six orangutans and two psychologists. Read the comments on this post... |
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| Scientology is scary [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 11:22 am |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| Very scary, like a plague of ambulance chasers. The video quality is not very good but that should not put you off from some of the very serious issues raised. Check this video [graphic at places] Scienceblogs posts on scientology Read the comments on this post... |
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| If you access emails from open Wifi hotspots [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:13 pm |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| If you access emails from open Wifi hotspots, you want to read this at Slashdot. "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies very quickly over connections without encryption. He even |
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| PCs: Optimus Prime Case Mod Almost Seven Feet Tall, Eats Mac Minis |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Autobots, Cars, Casemod, Diy, Jalopnik, Optimus Prime, Pcs, Transformers |
| John entered in this Optimus Prime casemod into the Extreme Tech casemod contest, and well, it's probably the best Transformers-based casemod we've seen yet. It's six feet ten inches tall, transforms into a smaller desktop mode, has a 7-inch LCD on its body, two windows on its chest (like the actual Optimus prime), Autobots symbols, and even has |
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| Dospara intros MSI-branded Prime Note Galleria |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 10:20 am |
| Tags: Dospara, Laptop, Msi, Notebook, Prime Note Galleria, Primenotegalleria |
| on the lid of its new Prime Note Galleria, and just barely visible below the screen above. Cross-branding issues aside, the laptop certainly looks like it'll get the job done, boasting a 17-inch 1680 x 1050 display, Core 2 Duo T7300 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and, perhaps most notably, GeForce 8600 GT graphics. Of course, |
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| Seeing patterns and interpreting them too [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 5:13 am |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| We see patterns in the clouds, in the shadows of a dark street, in the martian sands, and sometimes even in the grime of dirty vessels (I see Saturn's rings in my coffee cup right now). Like our dreams, we are free to interpret patterns in any way we want, and we usually use that freedom to get all poetic and sentimental (or violent and scary, in |
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| "You stupid or something? Read the fucking label", sincerely, PepsiCo & Coca-Cola [The Scientific Indian] |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 11:23 am |
| Tags: Prime Stream |
| This is old news, but there are lot of people who may not know and still keep buying into the bottled water scam. Check the recent Economist article. "SO THE emperor really isn't wearing any clothes. Last week PepsiCo announced that the label on its Aquafina brand of bottled water will soon carry the words "public water source", instead of simply |
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