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- 'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions
- EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...
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- New ideas for advancing science research
- Scientists and technology experts meet recently at the Brookings Institute to discuss the decline in American scientific research and to explore concerns over the possibility that the decline could lead to a dulling of Americas competitive edge, reports Inside Higher Ed. Lawrence H. Summers, the former president of...
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- NY moves FOIA requests to email
- Here's a simple idea - Why can't the government communicate with citizens by email? Why can't public records just be emailed off, instead of the time-consuming tasks of digging them up from archives and stuck in snail mail? In New York, a new law allows officials to send public records...
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Post-9/11 privacy and secrecy: A report card
- Post-9/11 privacy and secrecy: A report cardWhy did it take 9/11 for people to realize that in theoryfreedom and yes privacy is dangerous! I've always known and excepted that as a fact of a free/private life and I except the risks for in my humble opinion the alternative is...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- Day 4: Callisto, Callisto, Callisto.
- The theme of the final session of EclipseCon 2006 on Thursday was the upcoming Callisto simultaneous release. (Note: all the previous draft reports have been edited and updated. --Ed) Figure 1. The new Callisto logo, by Walter Myers. It's the artist's rendition of a Jovian eclipse as...
- Blog posts 2006-03-24
- Just how dangerous is MySpace?
- Wired News offer "scenes from the MySpace backlash," starting with the story of young Justin Layshock, who created a fake MySpace profile of his principal, Eric Trosch of Hermitage (Pa.) Hickory High School. For "birthday" he listed "too drunk to remember." And for vital stats like eye...
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- To beat Linux: scam the customer
- PC magazine's Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online recently ran a feature by Rich Freeman entitled: Winning the Linux Wars that started out with this heart warming anecdote about a sale saved for Microsoft by a loyal Microsoft Gold Certified Partner: "Microsoft came in and pitched Exchange and SharePoint and...
- Blog posts 2006-01-13
- Elections officials fight for Net political ads
- Elections officials fight for Net political adsMethinks they protest too muchMakes me wonder if their position has some quiet encouragement from the major parties.Buckle up, its going to get roughIt's the last two weeks, Karl Rove is behind and he has 1 strategy when he's behind. Attack.I guess this case...
- Discussion threads 2004-10-14
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