It was the early 80s and I was in second grade. I went to a school way out in the sticks called Trafton Elementary, which was a classic early 1900s white box with 4 classrooms (1st grade – 4th grade) and a bell on top to call the kids in from recess. To give you […]
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A very interesting graph from GOOD:
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A company called Complete Genomics was able to sequence three human genomes for $4,400 in materials… a micro-drop in the bucket compared to the $3 billion it cost to complete just one only a few years ago. They did this using more common materials, which does introduce some amount of error. However, with an error […]
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I was hanging out in a local alehouse after work last week when I got into a conversation with the waitress about being vegetarian. The top two most common questions I get about it are; 1) how long have you been vegetarian, and 2) what do you eat? Answering the first one was easy… I’ve […]
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If you’ve not heard of TED, its friggin amazing. I won’t go into it, you can just check it out for yourself. Wired for War is a talk I came across recently that covers the state of today’s warfare robotics industry. It is quite a sobering look at how changes in the “how” and “who” […]
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I think something is wrong with the universe. Everything seems backward… upside down… somehow, just wrong. Here in Seattle we have Christopher John Monfort, a graduate of the Criminal Justice program at the University of Washington. He studies crime and the justice system, then goes out and targets the local police. He’s believed to be […]
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The CDC has built a nearly real-time H1N1 tracking system called FluView. But how do they get this data? They get it directly from doctors, clinics, and hospitals of course! The CDC said it is now tracking data on 14 million patients from physician practices and hospitals that is stored on a relational database hosted […]
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“Evidence that the smell of fear is real was uncovered by US scientists last year who studied the underarm secretions of 20 terrified novice skydivers and found that people appear to respond unconsciously to the sweat smell of a frightened person. Now the Telegraph reports that researchers hope a ‘fear detector’ will make it possible […]
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On any given day I may pass by the warranty repair desk 100 times on my way through tech support. One part of the desk is set up to do manual conformal coating, which apparently requires a piece of cardboard to protect the desk surface. Every time I pass by the desk, someone is either […]
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An appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy reduced the prison sentence of a murderer who was able to show he has genetic mutations linked to violence. WTF? To me, it makes sense to do the opposite and just put the bastard to death right then and there. If you as a murderer are coming to […]
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