Category Archives: sciences

what, more links?

Friendly societies: ancient free-market social security Meet the Mind Readers: brain implants to control prostheses. In previous studies, Nicolelis’s team showed that when monkeys had their brains hooked up to robotic arms, they assimilated the arm, effectively making it their … Continue reading

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C(52,5)

Played poker last night – for the second time in my life, if I haven’t miscounted – with some Stanfordites; I think I was the only one there over thirty. Won $2.50.

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links

Charity finds that U.S. food aid for Africa hurts instead of helps. Oh dear, CARE has been taken over by evil selfish libertarians. What else could explain such a conclusion? What American accent do you have? I got Philadelphia on … Continue reading

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pot is bad for your health after all

A woman volunteered to donate an organ to her mother, but mom’s pee tested positive for marijuana, so no go. I could understand disqualifying the disobedient from receiving an organ from the limited pool of dead strangers, but how does … Continue reading

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guess what i found today at the bookstore

In Area 51, do they study Grays’ anatomy?

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a higher grade of gibberish

Strange but true — People study for years to talk like this: Infant is status post initial ampicillin and gentamycin for rule out sepsis workup.

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16 million colors

Nearly eight hours in the making, here it is: all the 24-bit colors in a tasteful, tilable fractal arrangement — 16million.png.gz (1 megabyte). And since Mads asked for it, the Python sourcecode: two files. Another way to flatten the color … Continue reading

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