February 06, 2007
» links for 2007-02-06
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Hooray! But lacks the twin joystick appeal
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Who'd have thought Scientific American could do snarky consumer tech updates just as well as the new kids on the blog?
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Seems to be coming at Slimbox's niche, from a different angle
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Not for cucumbers, nor spaghetti. "'Mats obviously wanted absolutely nothing to do with furthering science,' said Axel Burchardt, a university spokesman."
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This seemed counterintuitive at first, but actually does seem plausible on second thought
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Interesting stuff on the relationship between Stonehenge, Durrington and the River Avon
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Meanwhile, the disgraceful plan to quarry further around North Yorkshire's amazing Thornborough henge complex needs to be defeated
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The whistling language of La Gomera
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Mapping music in non-Euclidean spaces
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Building a giant robot eyeball to send to Europa, one step at a time
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Panic creates pressure waves
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Some suggestions for managing the interaction between science and society (sub required)
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The genetics of domestication: "[Perhaps] people are a domesticated form of ape, the domestication having been self-administered as human societies penalized or ostracized individuals who were too aggressive."
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Nifty. But what I want is a desktop app that does something similar
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Fascinating: how the brain puts a grid over the world that determines the sense of location, and maybe memory - and the crossover between the two. Some interesting ideas in the early comments
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By tracking the echoes of events, like ripples in a pond