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Linkpost, 11/16/10 to 11/19/10
- Airports Can Opt-Out of TSA Screening in Favor of Private Companies.
- Surfaces that Keep the Ice Away. Or, de-icing through nanotechnology.
- Sea Life Flourishes in the Gulf.
- A Techno-Agrarian Manifesto. Or, what the heck are we going to do with all that empty space in Detroit?
- Surprise Link Between Weird Quantum Phenomena: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Sets Limits on Einstein’s ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’. Yeah, this one’s as brain-melty as the title implies. It’s worth a read just for the mind-expanding experience.
Linkpost, 11/23/10
- Was the Big Bang Preceded by Another Universe (Which Was Preceded by Another Universe)? This is a link to the Popular Science article, which includes a link to the actual paper. (The Kotaku article didn’t.)
- Is the Ben Bernank Stupid Like a Fox? Apparently there’s some question whether the Fed is actually printing money, or just claiming to.
- Adam Savage Mythbusting Security. Now, I don’t think an Isreali-style profiling system would bother with Adam Savage, but this just goes to show how useless the “find the bomb” strategy really is.
- The Well-Pilfered Clavier. Tim Cavanaugh ponders the actual effectiveness of our current Intellectual Property approach.
Linkpost, 11/29/10 to 12/1/10
- A biochemist worries about the radiation levels to which air travelers (and TSA agents) are exposed to by the TSA’s new machines.
- Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System. We’ve been wondering about the way comets drop out of the Oort Cloud, and this might be an answer.
- Scientists trick cells into switching identities. Just more evidence that we don’t need no stinkin’ stem cell lines.
- The primitive social network: bullying required.
Linkpost, 12/6/10 to 12/9/10
- An FBI informant tries to infiltrate a mosque, and they turn him in to the FBI. I wish there were more headlines like this.
- 10 Failures of the US Government on the Domestic Islamist Threat.
- Taliban Murders Afghan Elder, Thanks Wikileaks for Revealing “Spies”. I really wish we were prosecuting Julian Assange for his hand in Khalifa Abdullah’s death rather than the trumped-up rape charges.
- The Booming Business of Bootlegging.
- North America: The new energy kingdom. Ah, think of what could be if we could get the idjits out of the way.
- A live-blog of the Space X launch. (In case you were under a rock and missed it.)
- New species of rust-eating bacteria destroying Titanic. There’s some debate about whether these bugs are actually “new”, but they’re still cool.
Linkpost, 10/28/2010
I’m still clearing the backlog …
- Plastic Water Bottles Won’t Hurt You. Or: Laboratory Research Shows that Laboratory Research Causes Cancer in Rats.
- Brutality with religious overtones, including some things about Mexican narco-cartels that might surprise you.
- Why do communists only drink herbal tea?
Linkpost, 10/22/2010
- Cowardly WisCon ConCom Caves. (I’ve learned this new word studying the Qur’an: dhimmi. I think it might apply here.)
- Washington Post Blockbuster Confirms Worst Fears About Holder Justice Dept. Race Policies. Welcome to the party, guys.
- 70% Of All Stock Market Trades Are Held for An Average of 11 SECONDS. I am both impressed by the ingenuity, and disturbed at the disconnect of value and trade.
- Debbie does downloads. Just remember, even downloading pr0n goes on your permanent record.
Linkpost 10/15/2010
Continuing my new tradition of linking a day late, here’s some interesting stuff from yesterday:
- Do any of you remember the idea that the universe eventually collapses back in on itself? Well, there is some math that indicates that this is still possible: a Big Bounce explains the early inflation of the universe.
- Also, it looks like reducing carbon dioxide emissions in Europe actually increases emissions planet-wide. It looks like they’ve managed to reduce their internal emissions by 17%, but increased the emissions produced by their consumption (i.e., the real number including imports) by 40%. So they’ve outsourced their pollution, and (surprise!) it’s less efficient.