Twitter Updates for 2009-03-17

• On the Path to nanocapacitors with 100 Times More Energy Storage http://snurl.com/dzkbp #
• Indian Balloon Experiment Nets Three New Bacteria http://snurl.com/dzkc5 #
• Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web http://snurl.com/dzkce #
• RT @mocost: Piano lessons have a positive effect on vocabulary and verbal sequencing skills http://is.gd/nzwb #
• RT @NewHumanist: New Scientist post update: it was indeed a legal matter, not a caving in to creationists matter. http://bit.ly/dHQUr #
• RT @google: ‘A look back in time’ updated Historical Imagery in Google Earth http://bitly.com/ZwPv #
• RT @pickover: Fractal: http://tinyurl.com/c6yjaq #
• RT @pickover: Fractal 2: http://tinyurl.com/dz7df8 #
• RT @mocost: Brain on a chip http://is.gd/nBIm – European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing #
• RT @mactonnies: I blog! I Twitter! I blip! I Flickr! In your face! #
• RT @pickover: A pocket of the universe, in a bottle. http://tinyurl.com/c7tyj6 #
• RT @mactonnies: What would aliens learn about humanity if they eavesdropped on Twitter? #
• RT @mocost: Musicians who play together have synchronous brain waves http://is.gd/nD7p #
• RT @Wildcat2030: Twitter activity world map last 24h YvoSchaap.com – TwitterThoughts http://tinyurl.com/cuavb4 #
• RT @mactonnies: Some Twitter humor: http://tinyurl.com/dxny4y #
• RT @Xtal: Do you ever wanna unfollow yourself? #
• RT @mlaine: RT @XiXiDu: “Light pollution: space elevator show-stopper? http://snurl.com/do1hk” This article is wrong on SO MANY levels… #
• RT @mlaine: @XiXiDu Next couple days will see if I can get an expert to tackle this http://snurl.com/do1hk Comment corrections/clarification #
• Antennae Galaxies -A Preview of the Milky Way’s Future: The Antennae Galaxies are among the closest known mergin.. http://tinyurl.com/clufza #
• Society’s vital networks prone to ‘explosive’ changes: Random networks, such as the Internet and global flight c.. http://tinyurl.com/cztx69 #
• How Many Hydrogen Or Carbon Atoms Can You Fit On A Football Field? How Many Football Fields Can You Fit In Your Pocket? http://is.gd/nG0c #
• Researchers Develop Wireless Method of Brain Stimulation: Case Western Reserve researchers have embedded light-a.. http://tinyurl.com/cpnc3v #
• Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells: Purdue University scientists have developed nanoscale .. http://tinyurl.com/dyz4u8 #
• RT @newscientist: Bye-bye homunculus. There is no ‘seat of consciousness’ in the brain http://tinyurl.com/ckxlsp #
• Six-year-old might be one in a million – Cincinnati-area boy has IQ of 176 http://is.gd/nG5R #
• Gravity ripples may reveal traces of supersymmetry http://is.gd/nG60 #
• Ben Goldacre on how the media reports on vaccines and medicine http://is.gd/nG6F (Video) #
• Watery asteroids may help explain a long-standing mystery – why life preferentially uses left-handed amino acids http://is.gd/nG8n #
• Power lines disrupt the magnetic alignment of cows and deer http://is.gd/nD77 #
• Good news for those suffering from peanut allergies http://is.gd/nG9w #
• Email your online buddies from beyond the grave http://is.gd/nB5d #
• Generally Negative Review of Life Extensionists on Time.com http://is.gd/nG9J #
• Maps of Knowledge – http://is.gd/nGaH #
• Excellent and thought-provoking article on the diagnosis (and perhaps over-diagnosis) of post-traumatic stress disorder http://is.gd/nGbY #
• Spell check your handwritten notes with the Dictonary Pen http://is.gd/nGc4 #
• Model the world – one bridge at a time http://is.gd/nGcl #
• An Outbreak of Autism, or a Statistical Fluke? http://is.gd/nDpF #
• Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology: Recent research by scientists in Italy and Fra.. http://tinyurl.com/cp9o5v #
• CBS drama explores the Singularity: The CBS TV show Numb3rs’ “First Law” episode featured a Ramona-like AI super.. http://tinyurl.com/dy4gw8 #
• Why compressive sensing will change the world: A new Rice University-developed technicque for sampling signals p.. http://tinyurl.com/dlfk6v #
• RT @Wildcat2030: talk to the web and the web will respond. IBM technology will allow users to talk to web http://tinyurl.com/dfzad5 #
• Why the best jokes are the most difficult to remember http://is.gd/nGdO #
• Reducing Drag on Cars and Trucks by 15-18% http://is.gd/nGes #
• A keynote presentation on the differences between forecasting and advocating for potential future outcomes. http://is.gd/nGCe #
• What Do We Mean By “Rationality”? http://is.gd/nGCj #
• Aimee Mullins at TED 2009: How my legs give me super powers (Video) – http://is.gd/nGCL #
• A Machine That Speeds Up Evolution: George Church and his colleagues have developed a new technology that can ma.. http://tinyurl.com/d78a8s #
• Hadoop, a Free Software Program, Finds Uses Beyond Search: Hadoop, a free software program, is making it easier .. http://tinyurl.com/cvdhfz #
• Futurist thinking at the Pentagon http://is.gd/nGDN #
• The counterintuitive nature of evolution – Daniel Dannett – Video: http://is.gd/nGEz #
• I don’t understand why Obama is abandoning the War on Science. It’s the only war we were winning. – John Oliver, on The Daily Show #
• So what do X-rays actually measure? http://is.gd/nGIm #
• Will Online Chat Alleviate Mood Loneliness? http://is.gd/nGIE #
• Exploring the “Global Workspace” of Consciousness http://is.gd/nGJj #
• Break Cryonics Down http://is.gd/nGJK #
• RT @newscientist: how artificial DNA can build itself into complex structures http://sn.im/dzr42 could be the future of making electronics #
• Sometimes I think that one of the biggest problems we face in future may well be to choose among the vast amount of excitement available… #
• Just the stunning research and discoveries of one day of one field is enough for one week to skim through. #
• @Wildcat2030 “Daniel Dennett” btw, typo on my side in reply to Wildcat2030 #
• @Wildcat2030 The Email Event Horizon – http://bit.ly/SXYP What happens when Sci has a life http://bit.ly/QHUId in reply to Wildcat2030 #
• @Wildcat2030 How to filter all that enormous scientific information: http://is.gd/lJmV – Drinking from the firehose of scientific publishing in reply to Wildcat2030 #
• @Wildcat2030 Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction http://bit.ly/xC6x in reply to Wildcat2030 #
• @Wildcat2030 We live in a unique age of distraction? Hmm, maybe not http://bit.ly/13VVns in reply to Wildcat2030 #
• Nanoscale Electronic Devices Could Soon Become A Reality http://bit.ly/LjY9H #
• RT @anibalmastobiza: Research Horizons:http://www.research-horizons.cam.ac.uk/ #
• RT @anibalmastobiza: The relationship between matter and life:http://tr.im/ht73 #
• RogerPenrose, for one, has already hypothesized a
  weak form of ‘new stuff ’ – Yeah right..he’s making up stuff indeed. #
• Empire of Bases – The global reach of the US military. http://bit.ly/n5mn0 #
• “How “embodied” metaphors, rooted in our physical understanding of abstract concepts, shape our view of the world. http://bit.ly/mRRWr #
• The Myth of Language Universals http://bit.ly/MoE5u #
• To The Brain, God Is Just Another Guy http://bit.ly/fGFKd #
• Mind Over Body “How people can think themselves sick” http://bit.ly/dUpk3 #
• Why Minds Are Not Like Computers http://bit.ly/3oqR6n #
• In Depth: 10 Ways To Be Happier Now http://bit.ly/cj19F #
• Our world may be a giant hologram http://bit.ly/KddKX #
• a few thoughts about building community online http://bit.ly/TQub3 #
• Wiring and plumbing in the brain – how blood flow measured by brain scans relates to the workings of the neurons. http://bit.ly/AejaI #
• Hubble Snaps Rare Moon Parade Across Saturn http://bit.ly/3Heza #
• The fertilized egg is not a human life http://bit.ly/17T5C #
• Nice Guys Can Finish First And So Can Their Teams: http://bit.ly/KzawQ #
• RT @Wildcat2030: The Kindness of Strangers, an excellent article! http://tinyurl.com/dkgjht #
• Richard Dawkins’ live streaming lecture today http://bit.ly/W7NQ #
• UnHub Offers A Simple Way To Showcase The Online You http://bit.ly/6caYR #
• Why Do Some People Never Get Fat? Scientists May Have the Answer http://bit.ly/mfvDN #
• Fossil of ‘ultimate predator’ unearthed in Arctic http://bit.ly/z2SSf #
• RT @sciencebase: RT @symtym TweetDeck now mashing up Facebook with Twitter http://ff.im/-1y9Z5 #
• Pope says condoms worsen Aids epidemic http://bit.ly/NH82N #
• 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Time http://bit.ly/3DtSJ #
• You Can Be Good Without God http://bit.ly/1ULtvi #
• The Morality of Drones. War is rapidly becoming a video game. Increasing reliance on drones by the US military: http://bit.ly/5Zxg4 #
• Probe launches to map Earth’s gravity in best detail yet http://bit.ly/rfQs9 #
• @mocost Free Will! Free from what? Freedom means randomness. I like that my decisions are not based on freaking chance but cause and reason! in reply to mocost #
• @mocost If my will would be free, it wouldn’t be volition at all but random incidence. The terms FREE and WILL contradict each other. in reply to mocost #
• @mocost Free will is at best a religious obfuscation kept alive by the self-deception of philosophers trying to find rainbows end. in reply to mocost #
• Free Will entry at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for everyone who cares: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/ #
• “We all know what it means to be conscious.” – Yeah right, that’s why we have a clear definition of consciousness… #
• @dudivie Trying to tell me something? I didn’t get it… in reply to dudivie #
• Me as total layman is interested in why people think that there is an “ongoing flow of conscious experience”. #
• Isn’t consciousness just assumed when we self-reflect or in in retrospect? Being awareness as in knowledge associated with the self? #
• @dudivie Simple, when reading the sentence – “We all know what it means to be conscious.” – I asked myself if I do and could only abnegate. in reply to dudivie #

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