Technology

Despite some of the more outrageous claims to the contrary, SecondLife, while an abstract 3-D world, is not actually a teaching platform.   It had its moment and devolved rather quickly into…

I introduce the term "topological identity of computer programs" and show it in relation to halting problem and similar problems - what we need to detect in code to suspect it? I think that…

Remote access ... for lab equipment?     Labshare Australia wants to create a shared network of remote laboratories.  Yep, with costs going up - and science and hospitals are two…

Imagine you wanted to predict when sheep would chew. (Don't ask why...just imagine.) Here's how you would do it: attach speakers to the tops of sheep heads to broadcast chewing sounds. Collect…

We have studied constraints to programs, but we can use constraints to programmers instead. Let's assume the following constraint: Programmer must always figure out, for his specific algorithm, how…

Let's assume that we do not have a DoesHalt(program) function, but DoesHalt() function inside runtime of program, which is able to signal true or false. It is also able to hang. At first, the case…

Last weekend, Boston was taken over by the Transhumanists, for the gathering of the 2010 Humanity Plus (H+) Summit at Harvard University. The H+ Summit was two glorious days of information loading,…

Known for their music videos that defy tradition and push the limits of imaginative filming, OK Go has a new one- "End Love",  directed by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther. Here's what Jeff had…

Can't make it to the H+ Summit because you're in South Africa for the World Cup?   The folks at the H+ "Rise of the Citizen-Scientist" summit have it covered. Take Scientific Blogging Featured…

The 2010 World Cup will be watched online by nearly a third of British football fans, according to a survey released today by PC World. They questioned over 3,000 Brits in the run up to the World Cup…