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The new pioneers
Hundreds of years ago people walked on to rickety wooden ships and embarked on a journey that they knew they would not return from. They travelled to the Americas and their pioneering spirits and self...
View ArticleScience and facts vs feeling good
One is where we use logic and facts to form conclusions and the other is where we form conclusions from what we know is right without those troublesome pesky facts. I’d always been interested in...
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Over engineering
I’ve talked before about how lately we seem to have moved into over engineering things instead of engineering new things. Remember I like things simple. For over two decades now cars have being getting...
View ArticleLife but not as we know it
One thing that SciFi has always done which real science has avoided is to explore the make up of extraterrestrial life. SciFi leads the way with silicon life as well as life made up of energy and life...
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Portable security
Here is something to make you more secure that I was looking at doing myself a few years ago but I was unable to get it working at the time. A portable OS. Now, I know it is simply a USB hard drive....
View ArticleLack of control
It seems that if you are powerful enough you can ‘nudge’ firms into doing the right thing. Even if the right thing is actually wrong. Cameron is watching carefully. Wikileaks had one big problem in...
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Planning for the future
Here is the way our lords and masters plan for the future. Tilting at windmills. Yet they class this as a success as they don’t generate the electrickery in their country. Being green still means the...
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2011 is going to be interesting
With all the upset with the economy, the uselessness of our political masters and they way we are lied too I see more and more people becoming activists. Now being an activist doesn’t mean that you...
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Cryogenics
Seems like a technique created for food may be applicable to medical use. Scientists are proposing that the technique used to preserve sushi can be used on human organs. Making longer term storage...
View ArticleBuild your own frontier town
A group of people are working on Open Source modular tools that can help communities build a modern village in the third world. It appears that making these tools is on average 8 times cheaper than...
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