Guns, Germs and Collapse..
Update on Jared Diamond’s work..
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from Salt Lake Tribune – Nation and World An official monitor in the online role-playing game Second Life told BBC News in April that he knows of spouses of game players who have actually paid money to online-game detectives to learn whether their mates are committing ”virtual adultery” with other players’ characters in the course […]
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Will We Merge With Machines? – Popular Science Popular Science has scoured the most promising research under way in bioengineering laboratories worldwide to take an informed look at how technology will enter and alter our bodies over the coming decades.
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“So Yesterday” was one of the best books I read last year, up there with “Pattern Recognition“. But I’d never heard of the author, Scott Westerfeld, until Cory dropped an excellent review of said book on BoingBoing.. Well, now he’s pimping Westerfeld’s new one, Peeps, and it sure sounds good: Peeps is a science fiction […]
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“So Yesterday” was one of the best books I read last year, up there with “Pattern Recognition“. But I’d never heard of the author, Scott Westerfeld, until Cory dropped an excellent review of said book on BoingBoing.. Well, now he’s pimping Westerfeld’s new one, Peeps, and it sure sounds good: Peeps is a science fiction […]
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A Black Box for People About the size of a computer mouse, a CPOD is worn around the waist. It’s comfortable enough to be worn while sleeping. It’s non-invasive. It takes only minutes to don. Importantly, it can track a person’s physiologic functioning as they go about their normal routine — they don’t have to […]
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Turning the concept of search on its head – The Boston Globe – Boston.com – Personal Tech – Business Watson, software produced by Chicago-based Intellext, does the searching for you. It runs in the background as you work, analyzing your documents and looking for relevant information. The results (clickable links) are continuously delivered in a […]
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from Wired News Taking Stock of Life Extension Chronic disease can make for healthy investments: Investors who don’t operate on a multi-decade time frame would be wiser to focus on technologies that extend the life spans of unhealthy people. The longer we live, the more time we have to fall victim to cancer, diabetes, senility […]
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from Wired 13.08: START The not-so-secret trick to succeeding at EverQuest, the popular multiplayer online game, is to hit the black market. In the thriving world of message boards and auction sites, players can buy and sell virtual in-game objects – weapons, currency, even whole characters – among themselves using real cash. But this summer, […]
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Wired News: Cell-Phone Rappers Spit Grime The success of a U.K. music genre known as grime, championed by the likes of Dizzee Rascal, has made rapping to mobile phones a popular pastime for a lot of British young people. On the street, cell phones enable impromptu rapping, or “spitting,” over music played through speaker phones. […]
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