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"For those interested in more seriously exploring the issues of Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity, I’d like to recommend the following writings ..." None of which are sf no

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" ... suggests that the early Middle Ages (614-911 A.D.) never happened, but were added to the calendar long ago either by accident, by misinterpretation of documents, or by deliberate falsificat

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In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the n

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Community. Wisdom of Crowds. Collective Intelligence. The new emphasis on net-enabled collaboration is all goodness and light until somebody gets an eye I poked out. Is it merely a coincidence that Ap

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Nobody I Know Voted for Him Allen Downey (Faculty) Allen Downey is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and not a member of either major political party. In 1972, when Nixon trounced McGovern, m

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"A propellantless thruster would resolve the issue, but most theorists think that producing accelerating forces without expelling some kind of propellant mass from the vehicle is an idle dream.&q

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"Using this new math, something amazing happens: at T=0, the volume of the Universe is not zero, and the density is not infinite. In other words, the math still works, even at The Big Moment.&quo

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"...a model, based on tug-of-war theory, that may explain the selection pressures that mark the evolutionary transition from primitive society to superorganism..." Paging Stephen Baxter

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"...you might be surprised to learn that no one knows exactly how anesthetics stop nerves from carrying pain signals. That's why two scientists believe that we really don’t know how nerves work a

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"...I asked him some questions about his perspective on cooperation theories and how they apply to a Second Life setting and on corporate utilization of the medium."

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"...there’s still more work to be done before we can create artificial self-replicating systems. Let’s take a look at the history of the concept in recent times."

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"Two gas giants discovered around the star HD 155358 raise again the question of planetary formation and the mechanisms behind it."

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"What the researcher is proposing is that a spacecraft can be made to accelerate in a direction perpendicular to a magnetic field." Near-future sf writers, take notes.

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"An increasing number of academics ... are concerned that Wikipedia is becoming a stronghold for cranks: people who anonymously submit and edit entries on pet subjects to bolster the credibility

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"A team of researchers has, for the first time, hacked into a network protected by quantum encryption." Everything *can* and *will be* hacked. Get used to it, and start working *with* it, no

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"If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, but critics say it would also raise new problems, such as how the wormholes would form in the first

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"A new theory shows how wealth, in different forms, can stick to some but not to others. The findings have implications ranging from the design of the Internet to economics." Interesting stu

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Long rambling and interesting essay about literary criticism, 'how to read' guides and the state of the modern novel. Hard going in places, but worth it. If I read it correctly, that is.

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