Alexander Kruel

• Call your Representative Today in the US Congress to Vote No on NASA’s Authorization bill H.R. 5781 http://bit.ly/bvFckc #
• Are you the center of the Universe? http://bit.ly/9gIg8e #
• Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future http://bit.ly/drLcPk #
• Antarctic Observatory Finds Weird Pattern of Cosmic Rays http://bit.ly/9C1sjt #
• A Girls' Guide to Saudi Arabia http://bit.ly/a85unq #
• Language and thought: Lost in translation? http://bit.ly/aGb8OM #
• UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Social Psychology http://bit.ly/cz7nzh #
• A monkey economy as irrational as ours http://bit.ly/cJvUkx #
• Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being A Christian' http://huff.to/dcoYA0 #
• Photo: A skull lyiing half covered by sand on the beach. Location: Guadal Canal, Solomon Islands,1951… http://tumblr.com/xzuejetg6 #
• Video: Streetlights (Autechre – Eutow) (via Hirnduebel, theantidote) http://tumblr.com/xzuejf4in #
• Anarchy in Dagestan: Islamists Gain Upper Hand in Russian Republic http://bit.ly/d6fBAf #
• State of the Art – Nuance Tweaks Its Dictation Software, Wringing Out Errors http://nyti.ms/ct3YPw #
• 70-gigapixel panorama of Budapest becomes world's largest digital photograph http://bit.ly/9huneW #
• Can the Pioneer Anomaly Be Explained by Inertia Modification? http://bit.ly/cCNri5 #
• The Enemy Within: Deadly Viruses Show Up in Genomes of Humans & Other Animals http://bit.ly/cW0jaC #
• Video: The “Real” Reason Why There Is No Starcraft 2 LAN Play http://tumblr.com/xzuek1xdc #
• Information Processing, Computation, and Medium Independence http://bit.ly/cdcxh2 #
• One of the genetic roots of language points to self-learning in fruit flies http://bit.ly/duY6Pr #
• Afghanistan, July, 2010 – The Big Picture (47 photos total) http://bit.ly/dqj3A6 #
• Quantum Complexity http://bit.ly/d0gMC1 #

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• Social networks and statehood: The future is another country http://bit.ly/91wrsn #
• Video: Midtown Madness San Francisco’s Buses as the Pulse of the City http://tumblr.com/xzuegnwjs #
• Sony's 360-degree RayModeler 3D display brings its glasses-free act to LA, plays Breakout (video) http://bit.ly/cKGh8T #
• Overcoming Bias : Polygamy Hypocrisy http://bit.ly/aOYk34 #
• Extreme Close-Up of the Face on Mars http://bit.ly/9Hjdpo #
• Computational humor http://bit.ly/duXJBj #
• DNA Factory Plans to Open Within 6 Months http://bit.ly/d5qpRG #
• Christian Guys on Immodesty, Lust, and the Violence of Women’s Bodies http://bit.ly/92byJZ #
• Is There A Maximum Power Efficiency Principle In Cells? http://n.pr/cBXfxp #
• Immerse Yourself in 1908 – [hi-res urban scene] http://bit.ly/9sBTO1 #
• Photo: adski_kafeteri: Chicago, 1955 http://tumblr.com/xzuegqrog #
• Photo: High Rise Balancing Act, Chicago 1955 http://tumblr.com/xzuegqug0 #
• Good and bad in the hands of politicians – Politicians’ gestures can reveal their thoughts http://bit.ly/dkpkGj #
• Photoshop Used as a "Time Machine" (scroll down, must-see) http://bit.ly/cfA1LH #
• Photo: Vienna. 1945/2010. Soviet soldiers at the Imperial Palace Hoffburg. Much more over here. http://tumblr.com/xzuegrdnn #
• Unraveling the Matrix http://bit.ly/9MPcBX #
• Get Ready for Steerable Photon Guns http://bit.ly/apHYX6 #
• The Deepest Swimming Pool in The World http://bit.ly/bJsysI #
• Gödel, Fermat, Hercules http://bit.ly/cI6Gxq #
• Peter Leeson's new gypsies paper http://bit.ly/9RlVAT #
• Meet the real victims of Bush-era lawlessness: his lawyers. http://bit.ly/aK6AaW #
• DIY Kit Puts Satellites Into Orbit for $8,000 http://bit.ly/cPz27R #
• Young people give Google, other top brand search results too much credibility http://bit.ly/af2DgY #
• Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring http://bit.ly/aWsuK7 #
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves http://bit.ly/bJk4gc #
• Beyond: Visions of Our Solar System http://bit.ly/9EprFM #
• Berry’s phase and quantization in topological insulators http://bit.ly/cuvU1E #
• 'Indistinguishable from Magic', a genial and absorbing read http://bit.ly/aQFAkz #
• "I propose that answers to questions of human value can be visualized on a “moral landscape” — a space of…" http://tumblr.com/xzuehb8rp #
• Tuple http://bit.ly/cnMCEY #
• An Interesting Mailing List http://bit.ly/blpKML #
• "The smallest positive integer not definable in under eleven words." http://bit.ly/ci3Na7 #
• Berry's Paradox and universal distribution http://bit.ly/9RIJXG #
• The desire to expel unselfish members from the group. http://bit.ly/cDJ983 #
• Style Nation: What Retailers Know About Us http://bit.ly/99jcp0 #
• In Praise of Justice http://bit.ly/cyBLzb #
• If the "extreme male brain" is autistic, is the "extreme female brain" psychotic? http://bit.ly/czPTuN #
• Graphene Under Strain Creates Gigantic Pseudo-Magnetic Fields http://bit.ly/9wKDQ9 #
• Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 http://bit.ly/a2qGuG #
• Interview with Craig Venter: 'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome' http://bit.ly/a9Jl5C #
• Isolated in the Farallons, Biologists Have Bizarre “Island Invasion Dreams” http://bit.ly/dlLQT7 #
• Phytoplankton's Dramatic Decline: A Food Chain Crisis in the World's Oceans http://bit.ly/drHSrD #
• It's that danged principle of mediocrity that's causing all these problems. http://bit.ly/csJuM7 #
• Boltzmann Brains–I'd Rather See Than Be One http://bit.ly/ajSEIZ #

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• Ray Kurzweil Abstract for Singularity Summit 2010 http://bit.ly/d8pFlv #
• Is Love Passion an Addictive Disorder? http://bit.ly/abdkxC #
• Intel's 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link shines a light on future computers (video) http://bit.ly/a1Uc5J #
• 60 Minutes Growing Body Parts From Human Cells Videos http://bit.ly/aWOHSp #
• What Would Happen If Sharks Disappeared? http://bit.ly/cUzMbD #
• Metaphilosophical Mysteries http://bit.ly/cdWOM0 #
• The Future of Maps: 3D, Realtime Media Rich, and Totally Personalized (video) http://bit.ly/cD6WpU #
• Researchers Say Asteroid Has 1 in 1,000 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2182 http://bit.ly/93tv15 #
• Bloggingheads.tv – WikiLeaks and Afghanistan http://bit.ly/ckNs63 #
• Human Induced Rotation and Reorganization of the Brain of Domestic Dogs http://bit.ly/9hl6Rd #
• Visualizing the war deaths in Afghanistan http://bit.ly/91yp5u #
• Metaheuristics performed with a classical vs quantum computer http://bit.ly/aB6b52 #
• Alien parasite technical guy http://bit.ly/b7an5R #
• The Psychology of Video Games http://bit.ly/bvbDJo #
• The Puzzle Of Sperm And Surface Attraction http://bit.ly/dtmHWt #
• Nazi suspect indicted in Germany http://bit.ly/c3MxB8 #
• Summer books, what’s readable? http://bit.ly/daPzRe #
• In the sexual universe, all sorts of things can feel good http://bit.ly/9LKJnZ #
• Thinking Too Much: Introspection Can Reduce the Quality of Preferences and Decisions http://bit.ly/ce4oy0 #
• Video: Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing http://bit.ly/a5vmh4 #
• A Smoother Street View http://bit.ly/dcCtrg #
• Anchoring Effect « You Are Not So Smart http://bit.ly/dpCphU #
• Molecular Cellular Automata Achieves 700 bits of Parallel Processing http://bit.ly/cFT8s5 #
• Ted Chiang redefines how everybody will write about artificial intelligence http://bit.ly/bF19IM #
• Understand – a novelette by Ted Chiang http://bit.ly/9XFnZD #
• Video: Powers of Ten In 1968, Ray and Charles Eames produced the short film Powers of Ten. The movie starts… http://tumblr.com/xzueed6cv #
• Updated: The Ultimate Collection of Scaling Visualisations http://bit.ly/di5w7t #
• Elementary particle http://bit.ly/bnRhQm #
• This mailing list is devoted to the question: Which logic is correct? http://bit.ly/buJLPj #
• How Sure are we of the Higgs? http://bit.ly/aHKGfD #
• Progress in Reverse Engineering Brains with Detailed Macaque Monkey Brain Map http://bit.ly/98mt53 #
• The significance of Starcraft http://bit.ly/daPKCe #
• "The most-watched sport in South Korea, as in much of the rest of the world, is football. The second…" http://tumblr.com/xzueezsas #
• 3 Universal Goals to Influence People http://bit.ly/9tGljj #
• Eschatology, Panarchy, Tilt-shifting http://bit.ly/9YpRXi #
• Self-Unconsciousness http://bit.ly/cCE6cF #
• Timeless Decision Theory and Meta-Circular Decision Theory http://bit.ly/drTtxb #

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• Kepler’s Early Results Suggest Earth-Like Planets Are Dime-a-Dozen http://bit.ly/ak7aJE #
• Halcyon Molecular’s William Andregg: “The Only Way To Reach The Stars Is To Live Longer” http://tcrn.ch/dmGhmm #
• Video: Schizophrenic Episode Simulation This video allows viewers to walk in the shoes of a schizophrenic… http://tumblr.com/xzueb4cx0 #
• Moral Realism Debates with Hedonic Treader and David Pearce http://bit.ly/cLvQ39 #
• Conversations on Consciousness http://bit.ly/94B1Tt #
• OpenGL 4.1 spec finalized, streamlines 3D graphics for web and phones http://bit.ly/aJqzRZ #
• Light summer reading: entertaining legal opinions http://bit.ly/9P4CYT #
• An online meth house, created in virtual world Second Life http://bit.ly/aGALKM #
• Indications of room-temperature superconductivity reported from India http://bit.ly/cxm3ec #
• Watching Genetically Engineered Cells Kill Cancer In Real Time http://bit.ly/c2EqW0 #
• Government Permits iPhone "Jail-Breaking" http://bit.ly/cbFNYr #
• Braess's paradox http://bit.ly/bX6Va1 #
• BioShock Photo Shoot http://bit.ly/9mrJlZ #
• The StarCraft Economy (infographic) http://bit.ly/cUzMjs #
• Video: Guy Walks Across America http://tumblr.com/xzueb99ml #
• Video: cows & cows & cows http://tumblr.com/xzueb9cnl #
• stylish pong flash game http://bit.ly/cGyDkV #
• Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe http://bit.ly/azHB3h #
• A Timeline of Timelines http://bit.ly/d5AS82 #
• Photo: Gnu atheism http://tumblr.com/xzuebhn88 #
• Subtyping and Multiple Realization http://bit.ly/bbP7jY #
• "It is widely believed, at least in scientific circles, that living systems, including mankind, obey the…" http://tumblr.com/xzuebi2w3 #
• "Albert Einstein said, “If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were…" http://tumblr.com/xzuebi4l1 #
• Douglas Adams – Where Does the Idea of God Come from? http://bit.ly/ac6CXS #
• In Defense Of Basic Science http://n.pr/cuvL9q #
• Why Fair Use is Not Just Acceptable, It’s Essential for the Future http://bit.ly/d5EulM #
• We humans can mind-meld too http://bit.ly/b1Wd8e #
• Jellyfish eye genes suggest a common origin for animal eyes http://bit.ly/aJCTYu #
• Young Female Philosophers Must Feel Bad About All That Meat They Eat http://bit.ly/b0TKvs #
• New York Times to readers: of course you have free will. http://bit.ly/90skkX #
• A New Account of the Systematicity of Thought http://bit.ly/9x2GeY #
• We all have to develop a sliding scale of burden of proof http://bit.ly/bxfI1O #
• Scripps research study shows infectious prions can arise spontaneously in normal brain tissue http://bit.ly/abfysu #
• First Step Towards Electronic DNA Sequencing: Translocation Through Graphene Nanopores http://bit.ly/bNzjNX #
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul http://bit.ly/b4KwJZ #
• Some interesting questions about Gödel’s Theorem http://bit.ly/bZ5kQa #
• Finally! A Self-Sustaining, Sewage-Processing, Poop-Powered Rocket http://bit.ly/a4N9EV #
• The Transhuman Race http://bit.ly/8ZJIe0 #
• Pork-Filled Counter-Islamic Bomb Device http://bit.ly/cgUBzQ #
• Photo: (via littleteaspoon) http://tumblr.com/xzuec6ynu #
• Wolfram|Alpha Query Widget Builder http://selnd.com/chAaxL #

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• The Next Global Superpower is… Korea? http://bit.ly/cGee4p #
• Curiosity Rover Takes First Test Drive http://bit.ly/avsmLX #
• WHAT IF MINDCLONES OUTVOTE US AND TAKE OVER? http://bit.ly/ctt66p #
• Six-year archive of 90,000 US military documents, published by Wikileaks http://nyti.ms/auKbsr #
• Episode 129 (video): Science Shows Superstitions Actually Work! Sort of http://bit.ly/9rHJ00 #
• So why do so many folks praise a “thought-provoking” book that seems to provoke no thought? http://bit.ly/9GoDPX #
• Unincorporated War (Book Review) http://bit.ly/c3Hmva #
• Photo: What You See When a Kingfisher’s About to Eat You http://tumblr.com/xzue8iddh #
• "The difference between stupid and intelligent people — and this is true whether or not they are…" http://tumblr.com/xzue8ig0n #
• The Fermi Paradox, Phase Changes and Intergalactic Colonisation http://bit.ly/a1mtS6 #
• For Great Apes, Addressing Inequality is Child’s Play http://bit.ly/d0YVsu #
• The neural response to emotional robots http://bit.ly/bm8jhQ #
• A Chomskyan Considers Pragmatics http://bit.ly/aKy6Xq #
• @kaleidic @ViRAms @WeAreGeek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE in reply to kaleidic #
• Video: I Will Derive! http://tumblr.com/xzue8mvy0 #
• Want a map of your Twitter followers? http://bit.ly/9lTXpM #
• “Learning by Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynamics,” D. Besanko et al (2010) http://bit.ly/aYRmWz #
• Preachers who are not believers http://bit.ly/aH8ASy #
• Legitimate cultural difference or barbaric rite? http://bit.ly/9NVViR #
• App Lets You Know When Friends Are Nearby http://bit.ly/dD0BUE #
• "Happiness economics" in reverse: Does happiness affect productivity? http://bit.ly/dbnEjv #
• Photo: Holding Onto Forever via chinchowdoll http://tumblr.com/xzue8pzej #
• babygate blues: a neuromarketing tale http://bit.ly/9Qkzzx #
• Free will fully and completely dissolved on Less Wrong http://bit.ly/c9oqh1 #
• 'Free will' is often defined as want free FROM cause. But why shouldn't 'free will' be defined as want free TO cause? #
• Lawyers counteract any biases, created by persuasive accounts, by means of their own attempt at persuasion under given circumstances. #
• Once bitten, twice shy – a temperature switch triggers aversive memory http://bit.ly/b9x2aH #
• Time Travel: Ways Around Paradox http://bit.ly/doNKGP #
• Photo: Doutzen Kroes (via jennying, factorygirl-photography) http://tumblr.com/xzue8ugeg #
• Photo: (via littleteaspoon) http://tumblr.com/xzue8uhso #
• Photo: View of Earth July 21, 1969 http://tumblr.com/xzue8v3rs #
• Video: Ship Tracks [HD Video] Ship tracks reveal pollution’s effects on clouds NASA’s MODIS satellite… http://tumblr.com/xzue8v7ns #
• Various species display improved abilities in reading human social cues http://bit.ly/dzaj9Z #
• "The more offense you take of criticism against your religion, the more indoctrinated you are. It’s as…" http://tumblr.com/xzue8wa3a #
• Photo: Collecting your sweetest dream by *blackfantastix (via shuga, factorygirl-photography) http://tumblr.com/xzue8wb6n #
• Photo: via rhea137 http://tumblr.com/xzue8xctu #
• New Higgs Results From the Tevatron http://bit.ly/chpAMl #
• There are two major differences in the frequentist and Bayesian approaches to inference http://bit.ly/bPcX7U #
• Octopus Intelligence – Soft-headed intellectuals http://bit.ly/czmKrN #
• Prometheus: the Michelangelo of Saturn http://bit.ly/bUrMTo #
• Diseases of the Silk Road http://bit.ly/bemYiZ #
• The Consumer Genetic Testing Industry Strikes Back http://bit.ly/bt7x5o #
• New camera software allows you to line up your photos with the past http://bit.ly/bDbQPG #
• Feynman’s Paradox — where are the tourists from the future? http://bit.ly/bvfcic #

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• Tetris effect http://bit.ly/9oDnmR #
• Why Do We Leave Original Copies in Photocopy Machines….Post-completion Errors in Problem Solving http://bit.ly/bMAhRW #
• Post Completion Errors and How to Avoid Them http://bit.ly/d7Voxs #
• Video: Seaweed http://tumblr.com/xzue5wwc0 #
• YouTube – Three Minute Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche http://bit.ly/9cUDRg #
• A Camera That Decides the Best Pic to Take (aesthetics inference engine) http://bit.ly/agExQV #
• Read this thread on the complexity of arithmetic and much more! http://bit.ly/9wDEsq #
• @ViRAms @kaleidic Over my head, but you might enjoy this thread: http://bit.ly/9wDEsq in reply to ViRAms #
• @kaleidic @ViRAms Here's how the discussion started http://bit.ly/cnUPhI in reply to kaleidic #
• Citizen scientists innovate research model http://bit.ly/dpKqDn #
• Doomsday scenarios: is humanity prepared for the worst? http://bit.ly/duidL9 #
• Musings on Markets: What if nothing is risk free? http://bit.ly/9MjLaU #
• Doctors’ Conspiracy of Silence? http://bit.ly/apNrYY #
• The Uglies series (SF) http://bit.ly/a8nS64 #
• How Looks Affect Your Work, Your Career, Your Life http://bit.ly/bCXMoC #
• @kaleidic You might be interested in this thread: http://bit.ly/9hs7zq – Lots of programming resources + about me in reply to kaleidic #
• @kaleidic I picked Haskell by the way… in reply to kaleidic #
• Why Is The Universe Complex? Broken Symmetries, Information, Energy, Work http://n.pr/bv5tu4 #
• Risk panics: When markets crash for no apparent reason http://bit.ly/bhgxvX #
• @kaleidic I changed my mind +++ excuses… in reply to kaleidic #
• @kaleidic That was February, I learnt a lot since then… in reply to kaleidic #

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• Updated: Reverse Engineering the Brain: Astrocytes, Microtubule… http://bit.ly/ckeQo6 #
• YouTube – Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves http://bit.ly/aYvEtH #
• YouTube – Hive45 Singularity Podcast #24 1/3 – 3D Printing to Nanotechnology http://bit.ly/cqzLsC #
• YouTube – Islam – The Religion Of Peace? http://bit.ly/btsJBp #
• YouTube – Stanford Researchers Offer Open Software For Cameras http://bit.ly/9QpftO #
• Bloggingheads.tv – Science Saturday: Computers, the Universe, and You http://bit.ly/aM2MmB #
• North Korea vows nuclear response to U.S.-South Korea military exercises http://bit.ly/daVkDn #
• The Strategic Use Of Anger During Negotiations: It Doesn't Work With East Asians http://bit.ly/aXi1DE #
• Some of my 'better' Flickr photos… http://bit.ly/dfJZvu #
• The Anthropic Principle http://bit.ly/c4Oa2B #
• Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? http://bit.ly/aiVY1r #
• Hitachi 'Life Microscope' promises to track your every movement #lifelogging http://bit.ly/d8YfgH #
• Life in a Virtual World http://bit.ly/d1Ye9P #
• The author no longer holds the views presented in this post. http://bit.ly/bawl32 #
• The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? http://bit.ly/9Q9m61 #
• What is Solomonoff Induction? http://bit.ly/bjioXr #

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• Book Review: The Root of Thought http://bit.ly/aSqJRq #
• The Interplanetary Internet: Towards a Matrioshka Brain? http://bit.ly/9R9T6o #
• Edge: Getting at the Neuroanthropology of Morality http://bit.ly/bhLtma #
• A Dogs Communication – Could Your Dog be Trying to Tell You Something? http://bit.ly/cjmEwu #
• Genomics industry facing risk of government regulation http://bit.ly/c6PDti #
• The Biggest Star We've Ever Found! http://bit.ly/deOEDp #
• A strange new form of illiteracy — or, more exactly, dysgraphia, the inability to write — that is peculiar to China http://bit.ly/9kzePf #
• Is a system which kills people by indifference as bad as a system which kills people deliberately? http://bit.ly/cggym6 #
• Natural law vs. utilitarianism http://bit.ly/bF5vdx #
• Sex Makes You Smarter- Can 'Virtual Sex' Do The Same? http://bit.ly/9KUaaa #
• Being Busy Makes Us Happier, But Our Instinct Is To Do Nothing http://bit.ly/cXdmjD #
• Does internet search interest in particular insects reflect infestation levels? http://bit.ly/9bn1WR #
• Al Qaida-linked militants gaining foothold in central Africa http://bit.ly/aJiAT6 #
• 'Counterintuition', the Human Microbiome, and Why Fluency in Math Matters http://bit.ly/bNRMha #
• Genetically Modified Foods Could Be A Solution To The Effects Of Climate Change http://bit.ly/cJNWpE #
• Spectrum of theories, from Scientific Law, through Validated, Speculative and on to Ruled Out http://bit.ly/aTHv1T #
• Yes, We Should Clone Neanderthals http://bit.ly/c6dIOD #
• Must-see star size comparison graphic http://bit.ly/a8aeu5 #
• Borges, The Universe And The Infinite Library http://n.pr/djjNSm #
• "If Gandhi doesn’t currently want to kill people, and you offer Gandhi a pill that makes him want to kill…" http://tumblr.com/xzue2d8m6 #
• No Math Intuition http://bit.ly/aaWUgf #
• Stormy skies – The Big Picture (37 photos total) http://bit.ly/ckQDNO #
• What is the minimum number of people you need in order to maintain our current level of technological civilization? http://bit.ly/aiAE2Y #
• Quantum Mechanics Is Square: "Ruling Out Multi-Order Interference in Quantum Mechanics" http://bit.ly/aR1gpd #

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• Photo: The Meteor of 1860 by Frederic Church http://tumblr.com/xzudys71i #
• Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence: Understanding What Genetic Testing Can (And Can’t) Tell You http://bit.ly/ceDUTy #
• Where Facebook's half a billion users reside http://oreil.ly/bZLuNt #
• The Who by Tracks http://bit.ly/dxD5fZ #
• How to Distinguish Fiction From Nonfiction http://bit.ly/cxFNFN #
• Cerenkov sees the light (1937) http://bit.ly/aU7Clo #
• Video: How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets http://bit.ly/92ubMg #
• Disease as a byproduct of adaptation http://bit.ly/99E6WG #
• "Questions of priority – and the relative intensity of suffering between members of different species -…" http://tumblr.com/xzudywskb #
• Blueprint for a Cruelty-Free World – Reprogramming Predators http://bit.ly/9w9fRj #
• I don't consider frogs to be objects of moral worth. http://bit.ly/aDs3Lt #
• Baleen whales: a lovely transitional form http://bit.ly/aYyoCw #
• Google Tells FTC Enforcing “Hot News” Would Create a Hot Mess http://nyti.ms/byH8Kj #
• [Free Book] The structure of global catastrophe. Risks of the human extinction in the 21st Century. http://bit.ly/azc9My #
• The History and Future of Private Space Exploration http://bit.ly/9XQa6m #
• Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way http://bit.ly/aPlBf8 #
• Twitter mood maps reveal emotional states of America http://bit.ly/ccpYe2 #
• The Web Means the End of Forgetting http://nyti.ms/cbasQ3 #
• Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo Carbon Capture could Reduce Atmospheric CO2 to Pre-industrial Levels in Ten Years http://bit.ly/aGRjxY #
• Antibody Neutralizes 91% of HIV Strains, Strong Step Towards a Vaccine http://bit.ly/cfXTQt #
• Quantum entanglement in photosynthesis and evolution http://bit.ly/9Mfmes #
• How Japan’s Success Reinvigorated Solar Sailing—and What Comes Next http://bit.ly/co2iXa #
• Book Review – A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age, by Ben Goertzel http://bit.ly/dcWEI0 #
• More Research on the Effectiveness of Terrorist Profiling http://bit.ly/cI6xCA #
• Netzneutralität – Telekom will Basis-Internet garantieren http://bit.ly/9Z8moS #
• How Will We Spot Alien Signals if E.T. Is on a Tight Budget? http://bit.ly/bpjAI9 #
• Zapping Memories Away http://bit.ly/cj2OMd #
• Friendship, travel and World of Warcraft http://bit.ly/cYKK3w #
• Advances in genetics are finally allowing us to get to the bottom of long-held racial myths http://bit.ly/aar8hK #
• Mosses use explosive cannons and mushroom clouds to spread their spores http://bit.ly/aVPDqS #
• Machine Super Intelligence (PhD thesis) [PDF] http://bit.ly/dkcNft #
• Assortative mating, regression and all that http://bit.ly/cVf1dm #

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• Underappreciated Star-Shaped Brain Cells May Help Us Breathe http://bit.ly/bw9Hwy #
• Updated: Reverse Engineering the Brain: Astrocytes, Microtubule… http://bit.ly/ckeQo6 #
• Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction @ Oxford University http://bit.ly/craGhv #
• First-person shooter games as a way of connecting to people: "brothers in blood". http://bit.ly/9SD6Y4 #
• Video: The Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 engine http://tumblr.com/xzudw4mqp #
• Gyroscope enhances augmented reality on iPhone 4 http://bit.ly/dd6ToI #
• MIT political scientists demonstrate how much candidate appearances affect election outcomes, globally. http://bit.ly/bIC39B #
• Life without language http://bit.ly/9j4ZIL #
• "Thought without symbols — life without language — it’s a cognitive reality that is virtually impossible…" http://tumblr.com/xzudw5cxf #
• Your Entire Life Recorded – Lifelogging Goes Mainstream http://bit.ly/bclzPH #
• The Goal-Gradient Hypothesis Resurrected: Purchase Acceleration, Illusionary Goal Progress, And Customer Retention http://bit.ly/b0Ghgt #
• Book reviews (Banks, MacLeod) + Ken MacLeod Q&A http://bit.ly/cC3GnT #
• The Microbiome Never Ceases to Amaze http://bit.ly/dxnxRf #
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• Video: The most beautiful thing in the world, is the world itself. via ericwhitacre.com http://tumblr.com/xzudw6e02 #
• 6 Brain Sensors You'll Be Using Soon http://bit.ly/aq7hJF #
• Egypt: Authoritarian Reality or Democratic Dream? http://bit.ly/aJ028K #
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• Knowledge is not value-free http://bit.ly/bwHWMb #
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• Rich Countries in the Grip of Zero-Sum Thinking About Chinese Economic Growth http://bit.ly/a22xYJ #
• No demat accounts for Hindu gods http://bit.ly/bL7wHV #
• The olm: the blind cave salamander that lives to 100 http://bit.ly/a1Ivnc #
• "we should become more artificial" http://bit.ly/bz40fk #
• Quantum Chemistry Comes of Age http://bit.ly/bhn0in #
• game theory beyond monopoly http://bit.ly/cbgePW #
• Economics Behaving Badly http://nyti.ms/dhYzv0 #
• Caring with cash, or How Radiohead could have made more money http://bit.ly/ctpnGo #
• The Lifeboat Foundation: Battling Asteroids, Nanobots and A.I. http://nyti.ms/cxKjBW #
• Time Banking http://bit.ly/anJlR4 #
• Finding frugal aliens: 'Benford beacons' concept could refocus search for intelligent extraterrestrial life http://bit.ly/dpV9uN #
• A Prettier Way to Browse the Social Web http://bit.ly/b4jMwi #
• Researcher will enable hackers to take over millions of home routers http://bit.ly/cg8nrM #
• The Illusion of Transparency – Your subjective experience is wholly unobservable to anyone but yourself. http://bit.ly/cLuevy #
• “This monstrous growth …” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Video) http://bit.ly/d4P2eP #
• Inferring individual rules from collective behavior (via @ViRAms) http://bit.ly/aVOsSb #
• Almende Lectures on Self-organization (via @ViRAms) http://bit.ly/cXkaez #
• Hmm…awesome stuff over at @ViRAms – now subscribing to his Twitter stream via RSS #
• Polytopia as Rhizomatic Hyperconnectivity a new form of wisdom emerges http://bit.ly/aswvTp #
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• Few thoughts on emergent collective http://bit.ly/aNIylz #
• "AllSky Probe" Camera http://bit.ly/cHJHRr #
• From Hackerspace To Your Garage: Downloading DIY Hardware Over the Web http://bit.ly/9Zb3CG #
• Things I’ve Done That Make My Life Better http://bit.ly/d6AkVN #
• Graph isomorphism http://bit.ly/dp8xZX #
• Telekom stellt sich offen gegen Netzwerkneutralität. http://bit.ly/dtW2co #
• YouTube's fine – Analysts don't understand Internet peering http://bit.ly/cg2iQJ #
• Network neutrality – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/9XJhBQ #
• Deep packet inspection – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/cVrG8b #
• Two-level utilitarianism http://bit.ly/cHJCRm #
• The biological basis of human behavior and the criminal justice system http://bit.ly/9Oqosj #
• Biology and free will http://bit.ly/9NdtsM #
• Eternalism (philosophy of time) http://bit.ly/chdq0z #
• What's the Darwinian Survival Value of Religion? http://bit.ly/bPS7Oo #
• A New Million Dollar Prize? – Possible new problems to add to the Clay list http://bit.ly/bXlP0X #
• Is There A Maximum Power Efficiency At The 'Edge of Chaos?' http://n.pr/asUZst #
• HULC exo-skeleton ready for testing, set to hit the ground running next year (video) http://bit.ly/9LUhyc #
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• Computer Chip Implant to Program Brain Activity, Treat Parkinson’s http://bit.ly/cxVbmM #
• Rat lungs successfully grown in bioreactor: groundbreaking http://bit.ly/bJ9F71 #
• An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering http://bit.ly/90Quvb #
• The Solution To Global Population Growth is Saving Children (video) http://bit.ly/cPcYKI #

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