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Extra dimensions of time?
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 nDeep Space Propulsion via Magnetic Fields
"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.Dumbness of Crowds
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 ApDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers — HBS Working Knowledge
For digital marketing practice and theory, the last decade has brought two related surprises: the rise of social media and the rise of search media. Marketing has struggled to find its place on theseSimulation proves it's possible to eavesdrop on super-secure encrypted messages.
"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, no50 Points About the Illuminati
There are many Illuminated groups, with different kinds of secret knowledge. Anything you might say about them (including this) will be false for some of the Illuminati, but true for othersFrankly Speaking
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, mArthur M. Young: The Theory of Process
The Stages of Organization Model provides a system-level language for understanding the evolutionary development of organizations. It represents a synthesis of thirty years of organizational consultinWhy The Rich Get Richer
"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 stuFrench thinker Baudrillard dies
"He argued that spectacle is crucial in creating our view of events - things do not happen if they are not seen." So how can I be sure he's actually dead? At least we got video of Saddam, feThe Day John Kennedy Died by Bryan Woolley (1983)
The valet walked past the Secret Service guard and entered Suite 850 of Fort Worth's Texas Hotel. He knocked on the door of the master bedroom....Professor Resolves Einstein's Twin Paradox
"First suggested by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago, the paradox deals with the effects of time in the context of travel at near the speed of light." Interesting stuff - could changeBrian Greene on Super String
http://www.thoughtoffice.com/ What if there are no fewer than TEN dimensions that make up our universe? CERN’s new Large Hadron Collider proves that even a far-fetched idea, when shared with passion,You Got Game Theory!
Game theory is the fun-sounding branch of economics introduced in the 1940s by Hungarian genius John von Neumann and developed in the 1950s by Princeton's John Nash, subject of the 2001 Oscar-winningCosmic Rays, Not Human Activity May be Accelerating Climate Change
"Henrik Svensmark [...] believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere, which is responsible for much of the globalGalactic Baby Boom Influenced Life on Earth
"Some 2.4 billion years ago [...] cosmic rays started pouring onto our planet, causing instability within the living. Populations of bacteria and algae repeatedly soared and crashed in the oceans
