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- HandicappedToCyborg
Slashdot points to the story that a doubly amputated runner was disqualified from participating in the Olympics – because with his replacement limbs he might well be invincible!I find that a fascinating …
- String Theory In 2 Minutes
The Discover magazine made a contest for 2 minute movies on string theory – have a look at http://discovermagazine.com/twominutesorless String Theory – I really liked the winning ‘String Ducky’ entry!
- Clouds And Elephants
From an article by Scott Granneman in Securityfocus (on Virtualization for Security):
As I watched the storm approach, I thought about one of the most fascinating bits of weather trivia I ever heard: the … - On Living In A Simulation
Starting from the question of the world being created by some intelligent being vs the latest version of the ‘multiverse’, which encompasses every possible universe (out of 10^500!), and in which the physical rules are basically arbitrary, the article moves …
- Human Color Vision And Daytime Sky
Recently I found this article answering the famous question ‘Why is the sky blue’ a bit different and deeper than I read before. In physics the usual explanation is that the Rayleigh scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power …
- Physics Vs Computers
When I moved from physics to computers, I thought a fundamental difference is that in computers you can have a fundamentally deeper understanding of everything which happens in them – because you constructed them and could (at least in …
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