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Mixing Memory on the Socrates principle

http://mixingmemory.blogs...th-of-mind.html Mixing memory referring in his ever so learned way to what i more simply call the Socrates principle: on Mixing Memory The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates Problem with most of Socrates work is that he is actually Plato'

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penguins Be mesons

http://www.nature.com/phy...hts/6868-2.html Nature  - Penguin picked up So now we know.. but what about that elephant?

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Physics Goals of BaBar

http://polywww.in2p3.fr/babar/ph/ph.html The study of violation in B decays is the primary physics objective of BaBar[].Alamba^4betaalphaZ^0Z^0 That is as maybe but I am still in a state of uncertainty.. What do penguins have to do with Quantum Chromo Dynamics? And,

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Leonardo's Contribution to Neuroscience

http://pevsnerlab.kennedy...N_2002_sans.pdf Leonardo da Vinci's contributions to neuroscience.Pevsner, J. (2002) Trends Neurosci. 2002 Apr;25(4):217-20. pith  v.tr - To sever or destroy the spinal cord of, usually by inserting a needle into the vertebral canal.

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Leonardo

Just finished short, slightly eccentrical book about Leonardo with lots of colourful plates and some occasionally interesting facts and quotations. I liked this one: "The life of Leonardo is extremely varied and undetermined, so that it seems he lives only for the day"  Piero da Novellara and didn&

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Plasma and Ozone

Yesterday, on my way home, partly inspired by reading more about Felix Hess, I bought a plasma globe. I have wanted one since childhood. Now that I am a bona-fide mad scientist, it is almost obligatory that I own one.  It also brings closure on two pieces of personal history;

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The Cute Factor - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/20...nce/03cute.html Cute little article on cuteness cues, many cute lines.. "The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and

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Piaget proved wrong again!

http://www.eurekalert.org...j-sgm122105.php Seems like the grandaddy of developmental psychology over-estimated the competance of everyone over eight years old. At about this age we learn about conservation of volume, in particular that a tall thin glass doesn't necessarily have more in it than a short

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Cute little Fish

http://www.stickycricket.com/aquarium/movies/ Some excellent movies of cuttlefish playing around in their aquarium.. with a great choice of sound tracks.. the fish from hell film is not to be missed either.. for a chance to see 1945 take on the octopus "this elephant spider from the

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midwife astrology fallacy

i am sure you all recall the oft quoted 'fact' in arguments against astrology that the midwife exerts a greater gravitational force on your birth than all the planets out there. It's a lie! http://onemonkey.org/midwife.htmWell I did a few calculations and this

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Membrane and Neurophysics

http://www.biochem.mpg.de/mnphys/ cool

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Time Machine

http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-05/cover/ I could do with a few more thousand years to procrastinate into right now!

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Uncle Albert and the Cosmic Raymonds

http://www.einsteinjahr.de/ Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig. - Albert Einstein* It's Einstein year here. The 100th anniversary of his annus mirabilis, as I am sure you knew. The exhibition was really good, packed full of neatness and good ideas.  There were

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KOKO NIPPLES FETISH

You might not remember this Koko's responses to self-identity questions 'Who are you?' 1a. ME GORILLA NIPPLES TICKLE 1b.NIPPLES GORILLA 2a. POLITE-KOKO KoKo NUT NUT POLITE DEVIL HAIR 2b. HEAD KoKo POLITE SWEET BAD 3a. KOKO POLITE ME 3b. THIRSTY GORILLA ME 4a. POLITE ME

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BBC NEWS | Manchester | Cure for cancers 'in five years'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...ter/4423847.stm Manchester oncologists find cure for cancer, BBC photographer loses all perspective!

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onemonkey, the comic

http://www.gnomz.com/bd-22714.html www.gnomz.com is a french website that lets you roll your own comicstrips. It is so easy even an American president could do it. one monkey or one god [click for clearer version] I'm being satirical.. see here.. The Bible vs

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MIT World ª Distributed Intelligence ª Home

http://mitworld.mit.edu/index.php MIT Worldô is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. Cool!

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Time Reversible Cellular Automata

http://sjsu.rudyrucker.com/~kwanghyung.paek/paper/ I've just finished reading Greg Egan's Permutation City. As ever, he is way out there, describing (amongst other things) a massive cellular automata universe, the rules of which are such that it can act as interesting 'toy model&

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would you like to play a game of global thermonuclear war?

It is not often that the nerds on slashdot.org make me laugh, but I cannot deny my nerdish roots. This had me sniggering like a dweeb: #11484473 and if it isn't the game software it will be the military gunk. my own artifical baby will ever be

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the dream theory of genetic variability

sometime ago now (the night of 9th/10th May to be precise) I dreamt I was explaining this theory to Ailsa; that individuals who are at extremes on some measure of population variability would show greater variability in other independent(?) measures. Not sure if this theory exists or if it

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big bang

I've met a few muslims who seriously (tried to) use the big bang as 'proof' of the existence of god, using the First Cause (uncaused) argument. i was gobsmacked that anyone would still try this failed tactic.. Having god press the big red button to start

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Blimey O'Filey!

It's moving at a snail's pace - but it may be evolution in actionGuardian - 24 Jul 04 As a child given the chance to vote on which bit of the Yorkshire coast we would go to, I'd always cast for Filey or Robin