I know that discussing genetic factors of intelligence is something many do not want to do because such notions have been used horribly in the past. And because there are groups who would like to continue such horrible abuses today. However, it makes no sense to me to avoid such discussions. There are so many things, →

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How would you like to eat cuts from slabs of meat grown from stem cells?   Give the cells some water, glucose and natural proteins. To make sure you have something that feels like meat you “exercise” the muscle with electrical pulses. Gross? Maybe. But someone is thinking about it. http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2008-09/inside-vertical-skyscraper As with all zing, post story →

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This is a fantastic article summarizing some key issues with wave energy and the solution Alan Burns, an oil bloke from Australia, has come up with. It appears he’s taking lessons from his expertise in off-shore drilling (it’s safer to work on the bottom of the sea) and applying it to wave energy. It’s a →

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With the current financial “crisis” I kept wondering what went wrong. Read this article on the AIG mess from the guys at the Motley Fool. That explaination of the AIG mess is very interesting. The other part of this current financial mess, the loaning-of-money-to-people-who-were-idiotic-credit-risks and the making-me-foot-the-bill-for-someone-else’s-assumption-of-ridiculous-risk, those two parts torque me. So why am I posting this →

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The Titan Robot Show The first part scared the crap out of me. More here on their cool website: http://www.cyberstein.co.uk/ Oh, and remember the last monster created with a named that ended in stein? Not an auspicious beginning…

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