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Category: Tech

  • Dirty Dirty Darwin

    Darwin’s correspondence making it online: she said she must ask me not a very decent question, that was whether I wash all over every morning no then she said it was quite disgustin then she asked me if I did every other morning, and I said no then she said how often I did, and […]

  • Don't Pity the Introvert

    We’re only wishing you’d just stop talking: Amanda Guyer, a psychologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has found that socially withdrawn people have increased sensitivity to all kinds of emotional interactions and sensory cues, which may mean that they find pleasure where others do not. Guyer separated child subjects into “outgoing” […]

  • Stephen Hawking's Zero-Gravity Flight

    This really makes me smile. (article)

  • Natural semantic metalanguage

    Geekyness from Wikipedia: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is an approach to semantic analysis based on reductive paraphrase (that is, breaking concepts/words down into combinations of simpler concepts/words, see Oligosynthetic language) using a small collection of semantic primes. The semantic primes (below) are believed to be atomic, primitive meanings present in all human languages.

  • Indiana Apologizes for Role in Eugenics

    Newsvine – Indiana Apologizes for Role in Eugenics: The practice was not ended until 1974, by which time Indiana had sterilized about 2,500 people; nationally, 65,000 people in 30 states were given state-authorized vasectomies, tubal ligations and other operations.

  • Walter Murch on Earth from Space

    (the entire interview is pretty fascinating but I like this bit – Murch is a famed editor and sound engineer for movies – Godfather, Apocalypse Now, THX1138, etc) One hope I have is that someone will put a HiDef camera into orbit, giving a full-frame view of the Earth spinning below, and this will be […]

  • Testing Tags

    Testing 1 2 3 with Ultimate Tag Warrior with Robin Lu’s hack – let’s see if this baby works.

  • LOAD 'Commodore Computers is Back” ,8 ,1

    Joyous news – Commodoe is back with high-end gaming PCs. They are smart to choose this niche because games will pay more for hardware + so many of the older gamers still have a brand crush on Commodore. SYNTAX ERROR? no more!

  • Where Penises Come From

    Continuing the theme of the previous post: So I was just browsing through some fun journals (Integrative and Comparative Biology, always good for some unusual stuff) and ran across a paper with a wonderful title: “The Functional Morphology of Penile Erection: Tissue Designs for Increasing and Maintaining Stiffness.” If that kind of thing will sell […]

  • From Cloacas to Vaginas

    Fascinating study of the evolution of the female reproductive system. The vagina is an entirely new structure, which has no homolog in amphibians or reptiles. That is an interesting observation. It’s a wholly original structure that arose sometime after the monotreme-marsupial split, an evolutionary novelty. How did that happen?