Twitter Updates for 2009-03-19

• RT @noahwilliamgray: The rise of blogging in science: http://is.gd/nTUc The end of science journalism done the “old way”? #
• Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe http://bit.ly/qffD #
• Police departments keeping public informed on Twitter http://bit.ly/a5bl #
• Computer model says UNC will win tournament http://bit.ly/14Nl5N #
• RT @DrShock: How To Find Great Links For Twitter That Get Retweeted Like Crazy with video http://tinyurl.com/czm4q8 #
• New, untheorized particle that challenges what physicists thought they knew about how quarks combine to form matter http://bit.ly/15rsda #
• New Scientist article on “how to spot hidden religious agendas in science books” removed for legal reasons http://bit.ly/hkFS #
• Covert GPS trackers – track whatever or whomever you wish – track the subject via the web http://bit.ly/4671os #
• UK government is considering storing all messages sent through web mail and social networking applications. http://bit.ly/9YDln #
• New Fossil Suggests That Fuzzy Dinosaurs Were Plentiful http://bit.ly/sJW8D #
• Scientists are offering new evidence that our brains function at a critical point between randomness and order. http://bit.ly/dLMz8 #
• General Fusion Research Update http://bit.ly/X480q #
• Stunning GeoEye-1 imagery – A taste of what’s to come http://earth.google.com/geoeye/ #
• NASA may send fleet of spacecraft to Venus http://bit.ly/1Qd7Z #
• “Supermodel” robot Video http://bit.ly/QpdQz – Here’s the new Japanese humanoid robot HRP-4C #
• Electric stimulus to face -test4 (Fun Video) http://bit.ly/H98LT #
• A Heatstroke-Sensing Helmet http://bit.ly/F4DSZ #
• Ever seen an ant traffic jam? Researchers studying ant traffic are beginning to understand why: http://bit.ly/eEZWH #
• Our universe is some other universe’s idea of a novel. Our universe is a simulation that allows… http://bit.ly/stDwg #
• Science Blogging plus/vs Science Journalism http://bit.ly/17H6w0 #
• Depressed People Fail To Learn Positive Information (including Video) http://bit.ly/IzGJ #
• Google Street View now online in UK and Netherlands! #
• Is Modafanil the Next Cocaine? Probably Not http://bit.ly/LCPVI #
• Universities of Miami, Tokyo and Tohoku Create Spin Battery http://bit.ly/iC8iZ #
• Northrop Grumman has a 105 kilowatt solid state laser http://bit.ly/woP2z #
• Hate http://bit.ly/17hBzL #
• @dudivie As always I have no idea what you are talking about… in reply to dudivie #
• I never understood why consciousness is mystified. Like so many other things it is a semantic babel, a philosophic obfuscation. #
• Consciousness is one of the last frontiers where intellectual with a spiritual affectation try to hide from the revelations of science… #
• The 1st-person perspective is simply too biased to understand perception by self-reflection. The term is overrated as well as a deception. #
• Why do we perceive things and not quantum foam? The information being processed are deficient. Measurement is too crude. #
• Reality is uniform without separation, it has no bias, it just exist. We are part of this system, constantly imagine we are apart. #
• Tsunami ‘trigger’ spotted on Google Earth http://bit.ly/FYUWf #
• RT @pickover: “Thirsty plants send ‘text’ asking for water thanks to Israeli invention.” http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/1070460.html #
• Defamation of religion dropped from Durban II draft declaration http://bit.ly/H8y1f #
• How to Not Lose an Argument http://bit.ly/ac5rw #
• Little Johny Bayesian http://bit.ly/jXdAN – a nursery rhyme conveying rationality concepts #
• Looking ahead with tech icon Bob Metcalfe: The goal in the next six or seven decades should be to produce “squan.. http://tinyurl.com/crpl23 #
• RT @noahwilliamgray: “With the increasing use of online news, we become our own editors. GOD HELP US”: NYT Op-Ed http://is.gd/o0RL #
• Intelligent Mistakes: How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code: Improving the believability of AI opponent.. http://tinyurl.com/dl9wfx #
• Everyone should read this article: http://bit.ly/1a0tZN – On the confirmation of our prejudices – Thanks @noahwilliamgray #
• Google Street View – 360º street level imagery for Amsterdam, London, Rotterdam, Manchester, Liverpool… http://bit.ly/q9Kg2 #
• Google Street View would be in Germany by now if it wasn’t for those dumb-ass privacy advocates living out their paranoia… #streetview #
• If privacy advocates would get their way, studies like this one would be impossible: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1199 #
• Privacy advocates become an ever greater obstacle for scientific investigation and discovery. We’ll have to decide what is more important. #
• GetJar, a repository of over free 20,000 applications for “dumb phones”: http://www.getjar.com/ #
• Missing Piece Of Plant Clock Found http://bit.ly/2xIgx7 #
• Microbial Societies Do Not Like Oligarchy http://bit.ly/GdC2V – bacteria and humans appear to prefer to live in a democracy #
• RT @newscientist: Stephen Hawking’s bedtime stories (not read out in that voice) http://tinyurl.com/dlafvx #
• How can anyone doubt that bloggers can write good books? Most authors have their own blogs, which makes them bloggers… #
• Politicians, lawyers and advertisers, falling over themselves to buy into the latest scientific discovery: brainjacking. http://bit.ly/R1FZT #
• What digital camera’s sensor size means, and why it matters http://bit.ly/mhwr1 #
• Pollution-detecting robot fish being released into the waters of northern Spain (Video) http://bit.ly/r6HjS #
• Dutch Liberal Policy Towards Cannabis Use Pays Of http://bit.ly/vkBzm (Video) #
• RT @pickover: Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm. http://tinyurl.com/dh7s6j #
• RT @Wildcat2030: Important ,RT @singularityu: MIT adopts a University-wide Open Access policy mandate! (This is big! [d]) http://is.gd/nZlz #
• RT @Wildcat2030: BodyNets: Networks of sensing, computing, as wearable, implantable,systems to form Body Area Networks http://bit.ly/MqK #
• @Xtal I doubt it, most will probably be scared… in reply to Xtal #
• RT @mocost: Let’s hope the tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson helps to raise awareness about brain injury http://is.gd/o3k4 #
• RT @newscientist: Scientists have flash of light over Parkinson’s treatment http://tinyurl.com/dclajf #
• Light-as-Air, Heatproof Nano Muscles – New nanotube sheets combine unique properties. http://bit.ly/w2sPT #
• China’s Political Shift Accelerating A Bit During the Crisis http://bit.ly/m6owI #
• Icarus: Revisiting the Daedalus Starship – Credible interstellar probe for a potential mission this century. http://bit.ly/bGyWA #
• Q & A with Dr. John Mather on the James Webb Space Telescope – Planned for launch in 2013 http://bit.ly/70iNe #
• Vernal Equinox – Busting the Myth of Balancing Eggs http://bit.ly/SHBn #

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