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October 7, 2009
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September 29, 2009

Big Dog.

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August 21, 2009
Freeman Dyson on Charlie Rose!
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EATR Robots!  Endurance-geared autonomous robots feeding off biomatter!  Human biomatter?  Let’s bug out! Click here for Robotic Technology Inc.’s official website with information on the EATR’s. Click here for Engadget’s first post. Click here for Engadget’s second post featuring a great Fargo image.

EATR Robots!  Endurance-geared autonomous robots feeding off biomatter!  Human biomatter?  Let’s bug out!

Click here for Robotic Technology Inc.’s official website with information on the EATR’s.

Click here for Engadget’s first post.


Click here for Engadget’s second post featuring a great Fargo image.

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August 11, 2009

Chris Anderson discusses freemium business models with my man Chuck Rose.  Why is this even a debate?

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Noah Schactman’s article on the HAARP project in Alaska from Wired (click here to read).  I’ll put this on par with the Large Hadron Collider as fascinatings projects that I barely understand the physics behind, but am aware they could change everything.

Noah Schactman’s article on the HAARP project in Alaska from Wired (click here to read).  I’ll put this on par with the Large Hadron Collider as fascinatings projects that I barely understand the physics behind, but am aware they could change everything.

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Here’s an interesting lecture from Elaine Morgan about the possibility of an aquatic missing link in human evolution.  I’ve read alot recently about dolphin and whale cultures.  The question crossed my mind as to why two aquatic mammalian cultures have similarities to human culture trends, but, aside from the cognitive and emotional traits of elephants, most land mammalian cultures do not.

Anyway, it’s an interesting theory.  The comments section seem to fill in more of the details (and rebuttals) that she left out (click here for comments).

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July 27, 2009
Fred Vogelstein wrote a great article for Wired (click here to read) about the swirling antitrust sentiments building against Google. I was fortunate enough to work as a research assistant last summer for the brilliant Professor Frank Pasquale, who last summer testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary regarding competition policy, antitrust, and search engines (click here for testimony). The article does a great job illustrating Google’s services-for-data exchange program, as well as the danger in such a prominent search engine sitting at the center of a web empire when it still keeps its algorithm a secret.

Fred Vogelstein wrote a great article for Wired (click here to read) about the swirling antitrust sentiments building against Google.

I was fortunate enough to work as a research assistant last summer for the brilliant Professor Frank Pasquale, who last summer testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary regarding competition policy, antitrust, and search engines (click here for testimony).

The article does a great job illustrating Google’s services-for-data exchange program, as well as the danger in such a prominent search engine sitting at the center of a web empire when it still keeps its algorithm a secret.

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June 28, 2009
Pollution and chemicals are increasing the rate of deformities in amphibians and humans. Great.
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May 13, 2009
The Astronaut Twitterer: Tweets from Space
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April 9, 2009
Aberystwyth University's Adam and Eve, two autonomous mini laboratories consisting of computers, robotics, and lab equipment ("lab-bots"), generate their own hypotheses and then perform tests and interpret results.
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Lockheed Martin's HULC exoskeleton gives soldiers super-strength.
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March 29, 2009
I just realized that in the last year, I have developed a love for reading/learning about scholars and scientists.  I have Einstein and Sagan biographies on my shelf, am excited each week to see what scientist or economist the New York Times magazine will feature, and watch Charlie Rose on a nightly basis to see what genius brain he will pick. Anyway, this week, the New York Times magazine has a great piece on Freeman Dyson - apparently a scientist’s scientist - and current naysayer and critique of the green movement and Inconvenient Truth followers (click here for the article).  I consider myself one of the mouthpieces of environmental change that he would dissent from, but I recently have been very open to hearing opposing views on the matter from people considered authorities on environmental and earth science.  I always carry a healthy skepticism for movements and seemingly bulletproof social trends, even ones that I follow and see the good in. I like particularly am interested in this one quote from the article: Beyond the specific points of factual dispute, Dyson has said that it all boils down to “a deeper disagreement about values” between those who think “nature knows best” and that “any gross human disruption of the natural environment is evil,” and “humanists,” like himself, who contend that protecting the existing biosphere is not as important as fighting more repugnant evils like war, poverty and unemployment.

I just realized that in the last year, I have developed a love for reading/learning about scholars and scientists.  I have Einstein and Sagan biographies on my shelf, am excited each week to see what scientist or economist the New York Times magazine will feature, and watch Charlie Rose on a nightly basis to see what genius brain he will pick.

Anyway, this week, the New York Times magazine has a great piece on Freeman Dyson - apparently a scientist’s scientist - and current naysayer and critique of the green movement and Inconvenient Truth followers (click here for the article).  I consider myself one of the mouthpieces of environmental change that he would dissent from, but I recently have been very open to hearing opposing views on the matter from people considered authorities on environmental and earth science.  I always carry a healthy skepticism for movements and seemingly bulletproof social trends, even ones that I follow and see the good in.

I like particularly am interested in this one quote from the article:

Beyond the specific points of factual dispute, Dyson has said that it all boils down to “a deeper disagreement about values” between those who think “nature knows best” and that “any gross human disruption of the natural environment is evil,” and “humanists,” like himself, who contend that protecting the existing biosphere is not as important as fighting more repugnant evils like war, poverty and unemployment.

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