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| I did it my way |
(Wed, 13 Feb 2008)
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And nowwww... the end is near... and so I face... a blog relaunching... That's right: Behold the final Tech_Space post. Ever. 2624 and done. Didn't I say big stuff was afoot today? Please don't panic; when one blog closes, another... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Tech life |
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| Famous faces have prosopagnosic trouble too |
(Wed, 13 Feb 2008)
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We've talked about prosopagnosia on and off since this blog launched, so it's fitting today to note how much awareness about the faceblindness thing has spread in two years. The latest high-profile sufferer is Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, whose parents... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Genetics |
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| It's oh so quiet |
(Wed, 13 Feb 2008)
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Am I hiding? Am I watching Brian McNamee man up and tell the world about Roger Clemens' steroid use? (Yes, that I am.) Am I wondering why the US Senate hates and mistrusts you and your puny Constitution? Am I... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Security and privacy |
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| Coffee Break: Feb. 13 |
(Wed, 13 Feb 2008)
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Did the T. Rex have a good sex life? Did Napoleon die of too much arsenic? And what would a date with your brain be like? NY Times -- Just in time for Valetine's: Wondering what romance was like for... |
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Author: Jess Zielinski |
Category: Coffee break |
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| Riddles inside mysteries inside enigmas, outside factchecking |
(Tue, 12 Feb 2008)
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Things I didn't know 'til just now and hope I didn't just sacrifice any brain cells to: 1. The Mona Lisa is an icon of Chinese art. 2. And was painted by "Van Gogh." Truly, I need to start paring... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Around the Net |
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| Coffee Break: Feb. 12 |
(Tue, 12 Feb 2008)
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It's Charles Darwin Day, NASCAR is physics-cal, and lasting relationships favor the geeks: USA TODAY -- Traci Watson catches us up on a rock star spacewalker. NPR -- It's Charles Darwin Day! Hug an evolutionist. -- About 5,000 years ago,... |
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Author: Jess Zielinski |
Category: Coffee break |
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| 199 and still setting the room on fire |
(Tue, 12 Feb 2008)
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It's Darwin Day! The great naturalist, whose work underpins pretty much all of the modern biological sciences, was born 199 years ago today. He was preceded in birth by a long line of cellular developments stretching back approximately 3.5 billion... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Genetics |
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| You're going to do WHAT to my Sidekick?! |
(Mon, 11 Feb 2008)
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Oh dear. Oh, oh dear. I was much easier with this talk of Microsoft acquiring things when it was Yahoo they were acquiring. That's presumably because i don't personally use Yahoo every day, unlike my beloved Sidekick, which wakes me... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Products (and patents) |
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| The less to be said |
(Mon, 11 Feb 2008)
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And, if you believe that every language is in fact a separate way of framing the world, this is how the world ends -- not with a bang, but with a whimper. The Economist notes that Marie Smith, the last... |
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Author: AG |
Category: History |
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| Coffee Break: Feb. 11 |
(Mon, 11 Feb 2008)
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The origin of pain, why writing saved us, and maybe numbers are innate: NY Times -- When does pain begin? 20 years ago, doctors thought not in infancy, and didn't administer anesthesia to babies during surgery. We know better now.... |
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Author: Jess Zielinski |
Category: Coffee break |
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| Pretty as a not-quite-finished picture |
(Fri, 08 Feb 2008)
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After making Photoshop and such a weapon in the hands of thousands, those lunatics at Worth 1000 (we snark because we love) are transcending the current software's limitations with their nifty new Aviary toolset. The components are all in beta... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Products (and patents) |
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| Traveling lighter (or else) |
(Fri, 08 Feb 2008)
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Going abroad? Taking your cell phone, laptop or other gear? My advice to you: Wipe off ALL data you would consider your private stuff. It seems that federal agents have decided that your electronics are their business, and they've been... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Security and privacy |
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| Coffee Break: Feb. 8 |
(Fri, 08 Feb 2008)
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The brain science of love that lasts, 3D hologram movies aren't just a dream, and kissing cousins have more kids: Wall St. Journal -- Why does romantic love last so long for a select few? Neuroscientists want to know, and... |
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Author: Jess Zielinski |
Category: Coffee break |
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| Knowledge and group theory |
(Fri, 08 Feb 2008)
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Good morning; let's see if my Net connection is feeling better today, shall we? I don't see why it wouldn't, since there's lovely news from a study published in the current issue of Child Development. Turns out that girls whose... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Science |
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| Coffee Break: Feb. 7 |
(Thu, 07 Feb 2008)
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How rogue trading makes us mental, the astronomical unit loses constancy, and an autism discovery: NY Times -- That French rogue trader? He may be more like the rest of us than we thought: "people are hard-wired for money. The... |
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Author: Jess Zielinski |
Category: Coffee break |
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| Old news, new news |
(Thu, 07 Feb 2008)
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Funny how sometimes entirely unrelated changes come in tandem. This week, for instance, for the first time in over a dozen years, my Pathfinder URL for NY1 (that wonderful news station) is broken, kaput, finished. Remember when Pathfinder (that not-so-wonderful... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Around the Net |
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| Coffee Break: Feb. 6 |
(Wed, 06 Feb 2008)
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Plants are good at the grocery store of genetics, bad news for annoying mates, and a dark matter mystery: BBC -- So plants come with a barcode that distinguishes between most plants but is nearly identical within species. LiveScience --... |
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Author: Jess Zielinski |
Category: Copyright and public domain |
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| Time warp, solved! (a little) |
(Wed, 06 Feb 2008)
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One of the great mysteries of life, cleared up! At last! And it's thanks to screenwriter Danny Rubin, whose classic Groundhog Day crawled into my head fifteen years ago and still knocks around in there more than any fifteen-year-old movie... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Entertainment |
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| Jeanette Symons, RIP |
(Wed, 06 Feb 2008)
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Before we start today, sad news from Augusta, Maine, where Industrious Kid founder and CEO Jeanette Symons and her ten-year-old son Balan were killed last week in a Cessna crash following questionable weather in the area. A UCLA grad and... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Tech life |
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| TSA blog: Calm? No. Useful? Yes. |
(Tue, 05 Feb 2008)
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Today's edition of the Homeland Security IT Report -- yeah, I'm on some strange mailing lists -- says that over at TSA, "Officials launched the Evolution of Security blog to increase understanding and calm tempers." Actually, that's not how it... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Things that make you go 'Hmm' |
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| War is hell (on the diet) |
(Tue, 05 Feb 2008)
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Stefan Nadelman's undertaken a stop-motion film interpretation of the past 70-odd years of warfare around the world... as represented by foodstuffs of the combatants. Food Fight may sound a little, um, cheesy, but... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Around the Net |
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| Coffee Break: Feb. 5 |
(Tue, 05 Feb 2008)
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The mind makes us feel unworthy, a lethal old lion, and genes evolve rather recently: NY Times -- In Minnesota, workers at a hog-slaughtering plant come down with a mysterious neurological illness. Good thing Mayo Clinic is nearby and willing... |
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Author: Jess Zielinski |
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| Your great-grandparents' tax dollars at work |
(Tue, 05 Feb 2008)
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Need another reminder that sci-tech folk need to keep a close eye on the politicians? Wired reminds us that today is the 111th anniversary of the day Indiana very nearly passed a law making the value of pi (π) equal... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Science |
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| Hope floats, but that's not all |
(Tue, 05 Feb 2008)
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Before you get too far immersed in your day, take some time to peruse The Guardian's excellent package of articles on how utterly we've garbaged up our oceans with plastic -- plastic floating just below the surface, plastic lying on... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Environment and climate |
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| Welcome to the fray |
(Tue, 05 Feb 2008)
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Before we start the morning, Tech_Space extends a warm Internet welcome to CNN's new SciTechBlog, which aims to cover technology, gadgetry, science and all that fun stuff. There's a lot of that launch / relaunch thing going around this week.... |
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Author: AG |
Category: Around the Net |
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