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Davis’ struggle for Earth
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No comments on Davis’ struggle for Earth“The music depicts the mythic, sometimes violent struggle between the occupants of Earth and a group of ex-Earthlings inhabiting the fictional planet Kobaia.” Some mad ravings about alternative music? No, it’s former world snooker champion Steve Davis giving commentary about the current B&H tournament. Clearly a slow news day over at the BBC…
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Waltzing into Space
A couple of nights ago, I was happily showing a friends – a fellow space buff – my favourite moment in cinematic history. It was the heartbreakingly beautiful docking sequence set to the Blue Danube in 2001. An elegent spaceplane languidly waltzes towards a spinning Space Station which is still to this day the most…
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Two speeches
Two speeches for two Space Shuttle disasters: 1986: President Reagan on the Challenger disaster. 2003: President Bush on the Columbia disaster. That’s two Space Shuttles out of a fleet of five. Something has to be done. And here’s an interesting thought – the next person to be launched into space may very well not be…
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Columbia destroyed
The Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed today; one of the worst disasters in spaceflight history. See this Metafilter thread for more information and commentary.
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Dispatches From Davos
Dispatches From Davos – an ongoing report of the Davos World Economic Forum conference by Wired’s editor, Chris Anderson. Fun and interesting stuff.
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Nanosecond bats
While doing some research into neural coding, I came across a reference for a paper that claims bats have nanosecond acuity with echolocation. Say what? Nanosecond? Apparently so. I can’t really tell how they came to this conclusion by the abstract, but it’s been reliably cited in another paper. I’m definitely going to check this…
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A few good ways
Yesterday, I went to an interesting talk by Simon Conway Morris (Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge) – it was one of those great lectures that starts off from a simple premise, in this case convergent evolution, and then takes that idea on a wonderful journey that touches upon the inevitability of intelligence, culture, social…
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Misunderstandings
Yet again, people are being confused by Kevin ‘Captain Cyborg’ Warwick’s work. Wired has just published an article about Tech Predictions for the Decade, and here’s a quote: Other futuristic technology poised for human consumption is the implanted sensor. Gantz pointed out that University of Reading professor Kevin Warwick, who has a sensor implanted in…
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Uplink
Something tells me that Uplink would make a marvellous massively multiplayer immersive fiction game, or at least a decent component of one.
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SimCity 4
I’m seriously considering buying SimCity 4 at the moment; all the reviews I’ve read have been fairly positive and it seems that with a bug patch the game should be very playable. Plus, I’ve always been a big fan of SimCity. The most interesting thing that I’ve read so far is that the best way…
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