Category Archives: The Future

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Frankenputer Streaming Media Server: It Lives

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Thanos

I got tired of having fifteen different flavors of media (pictures, movies, songs, home videos, bought videos, etc. etc. etc.) that all required different devices or different cables or some widget or wadget to display, hear, or print. Continue reading →

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How To Be a Denialist in Ten Easy Steps

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Thanos

In the latest New Scientist they cover the ever blooming fields of denialism that popped up everywhere or that bloomed anew in the first decade of the new millennium. One of their references is an important paper from Martin Mckee, … Continue reading →

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Measuring the Ice: ESA

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Thanos

There’s been a lot of controversy over ice extent and thickness, and most of the controversy has been generated from the traditional denialist camps and outlets and they are bent on distorting and devaluing what is reported. With the new … Continue reading →

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When Creationists Put on Their Angsty Panties

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Thanos

You can bet that Fox news will cover it since it continues their “Culture Wars” theme and keeps their bile-fed elderly market share pumped up and angered enough to watch. Christians are being persecuted daily after all and there are … Continue reading →

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The Future of Publishing?

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Thanos

Skewed and Unskewed visions of the Future of publishing — keep watching for an interesting effect.

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New siRNA Nanobot Cancer Treatment

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Thanos

In the new Nature there’s a paper on a recent study of attacking cancers with siRNA (small interfering Ribonucleic Acid strand) Nano-bots that looks very promising. More here: Short sequences of RNA that can effectively turn off specific genes have … Continue reading →

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AGW: Still Very Real Despite all the Luddite Mobs Trying to Storm the Castle

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Thanos

covers several of the recent climate denialist headlines, which almost always get things exactly wrong or backwards. Continue reading →

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Our Pale Blue Dot

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Thanos

This is our pale blue dot — ours but for a moment in vast cosmic time.

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Bill Gates on Energy, Climate and Poverty

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Thanos

Very important talk here, pretty much what I’ve been saying when I’ve taken the time to bash Gore and his anti-nuclear crowd in We. It’s crucial that we create plentiful cheap energy – it’s also crucial that it be carbon … Continue reading →

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Why We Believe in Myths

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Thanos

Michael Shermer at TED For those who doubt the mind’s ability to create patterns where none exist I present my childhood encounter with the phenomenon, and Ladel Rat Rotten Hut.

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