Bookmarks for November 20th through December 11th:
- Maxthon Browser – Full-Featured Browser –
- UK space agency is go | Science | guardian.co.uk – "Britain is to get its own space agency"
- Life in Space: Email from the ISS – People – Dwell –
- Scripturetext.com: Online Multilingual Bible –
- How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal –
- Exclusive SpaceShipTwo unveiling gallery (Updated!) Boing Boing –
- Cyclone Power Press Release EATR Rumors Final 16 July 09.pdf (application/pdf Object) – “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,”
You really couldn't make this up… - symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » First particles collide in the Large Hadron Collider –
- Spirit Rover Wiggles Her Wheels | Wired Science | Wired.com – Nearly six years now Spirit and Opportunity have been up there…
- Marginal Revolution: Jeremy Taylor quotes Richard Wrangham on the domestication of human beings – "I think we have to start thinking about the idea that humans in the last 30, 40, or 50,000 years have been domesticating ourselves. If we're following the bonobo or dog pattern, we're moving toward a form of ourselves with more and more juvenile behavior. And the amazing thing once you start thinking in those terms is that you realize that we're still moving fast. I think that current evidence is that we're in the middle of an evolutionary event in which tooth size is falling, jaw size is falling, brain size is falling, and it's quite reasonable to imagine that we're continuing to tame ourselves. "
- IBM Makes Supercomputer Significantly Smarter Than Cat – 'The model also exhibits "strong scaling," which means that increases in the amount of memory per CPU enable them to run the model faster, so that it will eventually be able to simulate a cortex in real time. '
