In his book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain compares and contrasts the generative and non-generative use of the Internet, and how decisions that are made now will influence the future of the...
Read MoreIn an interview on late-night television, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. outlined an energy manifesto for the next President of the United States. His comments, which were based on an article he published in Vanity Fair provide the...
Read MoreIn an interview on late-night television, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. outlined an energy manifesto for the next President of the United States. His comments, which were based on an article he published in Vanity Fair provide the...
Read MoreWe know that the Sichuan province earthquake destroyed enormous numbers of schools, and that many children died as a result. Andrew Revkin reported on his blog research being done by Santiago Pujol, an engineer at Purdue...
Read MoreThere was an interesting “My Turn” essay in this week’s Newsweek entitled Lessons in Life (Science) by Sally G. Hoskins, who teaches undergraduate biology. In the article, she informs us that one of major...
Read MoreThis year is the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Internet, and during this year, Apple announced the “new” i-Phone 3G, and its new software for i-Phones and i-Pods, i-Phone 2.0. An article in Vanity Fair...
Read MoreThis is the cover of Science and Civilization in China by Joseph Needham. Question: What is significant about the image of the cover of his book? Read ahead to find out. This is the second installment of a series of discussions...
Read MoreThis is the cover of Science and Civilization in China by Joseph Needham. Question: What is significant about the image of the cover of his book? Read ahead to find out. This is the second installment of a series of discussions...
Read MoreI am in England, and I thought I would briefly comment on a book I am reading entitled The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist who unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester....
Read MoreI watched the last half-hour and the final seven minutes of terror as the Mars Lander (Phoenix) approached and continued on into the Martian atmosphere entering at about 12,000 miles/hour, and slowed to 5 miles/hour and made a...
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