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?In the Eye of the Storm: Updating the Economics of Global Turbulence? Normally I relegate items that I deem important, but to which I have comparatively little to add, to Links and label as “Today’s Must Read.” Even thought this offering falls into that general category, it is far and away the most important “Must Read” I can recall coming across, and so I am highlighting it in a separate post. The Asia-Pacific Journal features the Introduction to an updated version of Robert Brenner’s Into the Eye of the Storm (hat tip reader Bill A). I have to make the guilty confession that I’m not familiar with Brenner’s work, and I am kicking myself for that. It dovetails very well with some ground I cover in my book, particularly the idea that what we are in the midst of is a paradigm breakdown. It would have been nice to have fleshed that out a bit more with Brenner’s help. He sees the period we are going through now as a protracted and fundamental transition, as significant as the one between feudalism and ca
Post Date:12/02/2009 02:06:13
www.nakedcapitalism.com

The 60 most memorable scientific papers In celebration of their 350th anniversary, the Royal Society has made public sixty of the most memorable scientific papers of its long history.
Post Date:12/01/2009 15:49:40
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By me in the BMJ: the dodginess of drug company trials Here?s a piece by me in the British Medical Journal this week, published online already, and in the print edition this Friday. It?s a head to head with Vincent Lawton, who until recently was head of Merck in the UK. Briefly, I set out the quantitative evidence demonstrating the scale of the problem, and he [...]
Post Date:12/01/2009 08:54:32
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Baby boomers may risk arthritis from too much hard exercise A recent U.S. study performed on people 45 to 55 years of age found that high levels of physical activity, whether in a health club or at home, leaves middle-aged...
Post Date:12/01/2009 08:18:06
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The Lancet medical journal: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions has major direct health benefits ?Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.? So concluded a Lancet?UCL Commission earlier this year.
Post Date:12/01/2009 05:28:00
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Post Date:12/01/2009 04:30:40
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WoW Guilds Just Like...Street Gangs? [Science] World of Warcraft has been compared to many things over the years. Everquest at first, then later, crack. But I don't think I've ever seen it compared to street gangs in LA. Earlier this year, scientists from the US and China published a paper called "Human group formation in online guilds and offline gangs driven by a common team dynamic". Which does a neat job of summing up the paper's contents. Basically, there's a mathematical model, a "a common team-based model can accurately reproduce the quantitative features of [WoW guilds and gangs] simply by adjusting the average tolerance level and attribute range for each population". So WoW guilds and gangs run on the same mechanics. And it took scientists to come up with this? Crips and Bloods, Alliance and Horde...it's right there in the colours when you sign up, let alone whatever happens later on. Human group formation in online guilds and offline gangs driven by a common team dynamic [Physical Review E, via Slashdot]
Post Date:12/01/2009 02:30:00
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AMS Responds to Service-of-Denial Climate Hack The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has issued a statement in response to the recent deniosphere blog storm over the theft and distribution of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. The AMS reaffirms its commitment to its Statement on Climate Change, originally drafted in late 2006: It was developed following a rigorous procedure that included drafting and review by experts in the field, comments by the membership, and careful review by the AMS Council prior to approval as a statement of the Society. The statement is based on a robust body of research reported in the peer-reviewed literature. The AMS also points out that the artificial controversy generated by the out-of-context quoting of selected emails carries virtually no weight in light of the existing body of climate science: For climate change research, the body of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set of research results to the com
Post Date:11/30/2009 16:29:00
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Flying fish
Post Date:11/30/2009 10:12:00
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Scandal On Climate Change Drudge linked this Telegraph.co.uk article entitled: Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation You folks who supported this myth better get your thinking caps on and quick. If the science was so solid, why have all of the cloak and dagger emails floating around?
Post Date:11/30/2009 09:51:28
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NASA astronauts call for increased shuttle safety congressional hearing will this week look at ways of improving safety on the United States shuttle program. It comes as newly-released figures show astronauts have a 1 in 129 chance of being killed in a shuttle launch. For the moment, the US has [...]
Post Date:11/30/2009 07:40:31
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Climate Change Data Dumped By Jonathan Leake SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. The UEA?s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation. The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals ? stored on paper and magnetic tape ? were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building. The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU?s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data. In a statement on its website, the C
Post Date:11/29/2009 22:58:48
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Climategate: it?s worse than you thought A couple of must-read articles: Poor Harry, the hapless computer programmer. And about that code.
Post Date:11/29/2009 20:14:02
neoneocon.com

Video Clip from SCI-FI SCIENCE > Light Saber Episode
Post Date:11/29/2009 18:03:55
mkaku.org

Video Clip from SCI-FI SCIENCE > Parallel Universes Episode
Post Date:11/29/2009 18:03:51
mkaku.org

Medicine in the Year 2060 : Fox News
Post Date:11/29/2009 18:03:45
mkaku.org

MSNBC?s Countdown Interview with Lawrence O?Donnell discussing Planet X, 2012 & Water on the Moon
Post Date:11/29/2009 18:03:16
mkaku.org

installing supercomputers in the boardroom With all the buzz about IBM’s claims of simulating neuron clusters compared to a cat’s cortex and the furious rebuttals from a rival brain modeling team which has good reason to be mad, you may be wondering what’s the big deal. Why are there so many computer scientists interested in creating models of the brain on a giant supercomputer and what practical use is it supposed to have? It’s not like most of us need to calculate some some of climate model or simulate nuclear blasts in our spare time while paying a few million per month for a warehouse-sized array of servers, hard drives and processors. And that’s true. These experiments in cortical modeling aren’t intended for your benefit just yet. However, in the long term plans of some researchers, your company will rely on computers which follow logical patterns and actually think through complex problems. And here’s the most interesting and confusing part. These experiments are supposed to mak
Post Date:11/29/2009 14:50:54
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Discovery Channel Wins My Heart with a Commercial, Again. I still love the whole world. Boom dee yah dah! By the by, Discovery Channel is running a contest. Make your own video, why not? (By the way, when the key changes and the shuttle lifts off?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Post Date:11/28/2009 00:48:38
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And we haven?t died! (Yet) So we’re not dead yet. Even if this was only a “low-speed” collision, it hasn’t automatically generated some kind of black hole and destroyed all life as we know it. Which is nice.
Post Date:11/24/2009 12:29:30
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