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Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart - life - 02 November 2009 - New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.000-clever-fools-why-a-high-iq-doesnt-mean-youre-smart.html?full=true, posted 2009 by peter in cognition health people science toread
"A high IQ is like height in a basketball player," says David Perkins, who studies thinking and reasoning skills at Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren't equal. There's a lot more to being a good basketball player than being tall, and there's a lot more to being a good thinker than having a high IQ."
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Darwin’s Robots | h+ Magazine
hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/darwin%E2%80%99s-robots, posted 2009 by peter in ai msm robotics science
A more recent 2009 study, again at Lausanne, suggests that swarms of bots don't just evolve cooperative strategies to find food (or avoid poison), they can also evolve the ability to deceive. Bots equipped with artificial neural networks and programmed to find food eventually learn to conceal their visual signals from other robots to keep the food for themselves.
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The Atlantic Online | November 2009 | Does the Vaccine Matter? | Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer
www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/brownlee-h1n1, posted 2009 by peter in health msm science statistics
Jackson’s findings showed that outside of flu season, the baseline risk of death among people who did not get vaccinated was approximately 60 percent higher than among those who did, lending support to the hypothesis that on average, healthy people chose to get the vaccine, while the “frail elderly” didn’t or couldn’t. In fact, the healthy-user effect explained the entire benefit that other researchers were attributing to flu vaccine, suggesting that the vaccine itself might not reduce mortality at all.
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MIT Students Take Pictures from Space on $150 Budget. - iReport.com
www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-328198, posted 2009 by peter in diy inspiration photography science space toread
Two MIT students have successfully photographed the earth from space on a strikingly low budget of $148. Perhaps more significantly, they managed to accomplish this feat using components available off-the-shelf to the average layperson, opening the doors for a new generation of amateur space enthusiasts. The pair plan to launch again soon and hope that their achievements will inspire teachers and students to pursue similar endeavors.
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Annals of Innovation: In the Air : The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell, posted 2009 by peter in history inspiration patent people science
T his phenomenon of simultaneous discovery—what science historians call “multiples”—turns out to be extremely common. One of the first comprehensive lists of multiples was put together by William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas, in 1922, and they found a hundred and forty-eight major scientific discoveries that fit the multiple pattern. Newton and Leibniz both discovered calculus. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both discovered evolution. Three mathematicians “invented” decimal fractions. Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestley, in Wiltshire, in 1774, and by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, a year earlier. Color photography was invented at the same time by Charles Cros and by Louis Ducos du Hauron, in France. Logarithms were invented by John Napier and Henry Briggs in Britain, and by Joost Bürgi in Switzerland.
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Stanford study: Media multitaskers pay mental price
news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html, posted 2009 by peter in cognition health media science toread
People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found.
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Brain On a Chip | h+ Magazine
www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/brain-chip, posted 2009 by peter in ai hardware msm science toread
Are we humans – with our carbon-based neural net “wetware” brains – at a point in history when we might be able to imprint the circuitry of the human brain using transistors on a silicon chip?
A well-covered recent article in MIT's Technology Review reports that a team of European scientists may have taken the first steps in creating a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain.
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Crank Dot Net
www.crank.net/, posted 2009 by peter in conspiracy humor list math physics reference science
Crank Dot Net is devoted to presenting Web sites by and about cranks, crankism, crankishness, and crankosity. All cranks, all the time.
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Crackpot index
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html, posted 2009 by peter in conspiracy humor list math physics science
A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics:
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Interorbital Systems – TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit | International Space Fellowship
spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/interorbital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit/, posted 2009 by peter in business diy science space toread
Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital’s TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but still offers plenty of room for most experiments or functions.
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