from an older press release at http://uanews.org/pdfs/10614.pdf "A new strand of research uses the principle of 'self organization', a concept used in studying...
Geek T-Shirts - The Blue Screen of Death, the SQL query Shirt, and more.. http://www.errorwear.com http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ For Mad Scientists,...
Mark Buchanan article from NYTimes Opinion: An anonymous commenter, responding to my previous column, suggested that my title "Our Lives as Atoms" is "more...
NYTimes.com article by NATALIE ANGIER, May 15, 2007 I never much cared for royalty, although I admit that, for reasons my family and I are still struggling to...
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond...
All that passes descends, and ascends again unseen into the light: the river coming down from sky to hills, from hills to sea, and carving as it moves, to rise...
Grady Booch: "The Promise, the Limits, the Beauty of Software" http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/05/28/video-booch/ ..which is his standard presentation and talk,...
"Instead of tackling the impossible to try to prevent global warming, we should be focusing attention on how to live on a warmer planet. ..There is no...
A short and localized conflict can have prolonged, global consequences, and a single event can cause multiple ramifications. An example is the six day war...
Hi, I've been keeping a calendar<http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/index.php/Conferences>of calls for papers and event dates of interest (to me). I'd be more than...
Allergies are complex self-* diseases. Neither air pollution nor pollen alone are the cause. It seems to be the combination of both which is dangerous. ...
It's neither the plants and the pollen that are to blame, nor the bad air and the traffic alone. It is the combination which is problematic. The symptoms of ...
Sheldon J. Plankton is a fictional zooplankton character in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. Plankton runs a remarkably unpopular restaurant called...